Quote:HRogge wrote:True, but as I've said Spot doesn't deal in the USA, and frankly dislikes even stepping there, as his origin story shows. When he deals with the few US companies he does, it is not in US lands (Mainly in Canada or in the international Seas).
Hi Seraviel,
I have read your new wiki entry about Spot Cleaning and I like the concept, but I have two concerns about the timing...
You placed the foundation of "Spot Cleaning Intl" in 2012, which directly corresponds to the launch of the SP Grover's Corners, which triggers a new wave of Anti-Fen paranoia in the USA and a lot of other countries... See Timeline.
In 2012 you would most likely not even be able to get into US airspace with Spot without getting into trouble.
Quote:HRogge wrote:This is, however, the first I hear of China being part of those hostile to handwavium (I had thought of them going the exact other way, just to piss off the US). Any article where this is written? I might have missed that one.
The second concern is about China, which has been described as very hostile to Fen and Handwavium... I doubt they would do business with Fen at all... they even confiscate all waved things inside their borders I think (something I would not like to happen to Spot).
Maybe it would be an idea to restrict "Spot Cleaning" to some "Fen friendly" parts of the world... or move the foundation of this company to a later part of the timeline.
It might also be good to create a throughout Fen/earth relations article. Any opinion on that ?
Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:I'm sorry to say, Bob, but by 2014 Spot isn't even the second largest craft in Fenspace. It's third, behind Greenwood and Ki. And Spot won't catch up to Greenwood until 2018 at the earliest.
I've been meaning to mention this for a while, but the constant growth aspect of Spot bothers me. My bit of "Cool" in Fenspace is having the biggest freaking craft in the system. At the projected rate of growth for Spot, it's going to elbow aside my piece of Cool in just a few years. Worse yet, because the growth is apparently unstoppable, Spot will become an unwieldy juggernaut -- and by Infinities time will start having an astronomic size.
I personally thought your bit of cool was the largest unreal estate, and the largest natural earth habitat in space. And since the actual used space in Spot is less than a tenth (unless you count parking space, which I don't), you beat Spot by a large margin.
However, I'll bow down to the general opinion if it says to Spot is too much.
Thank you all for the reviews.
P.S. : Spot is already an unwieldy juggernaut by 2014, and the only thing that stops him from a stable orbit is its personality.
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