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Enclosure (Level 6)

This feature is normally applied to open vehicles such as motorcycles and speedboats. When activated, the vehicle, or at least its cockpit or passenger area, is covered by a light (2 MDC) force field, protecting from rain, snow, wind, and similar.

Activation Cost: 1 P.P.E. or 2 ISP. Each activation lasts six hours or until the field is deactivated or forcibly taken down.

Primary Spell: Magic Shield.

Construction P.P.E. Cost: 20
Construction Cost: 1,200 credits (plus gems, does not include vehicle)
Construction Time: 60 hours
Gems: 3 carats of amethyst

You could also go with Sheltering Force to provide some environmental protection / temperature moderation, and throw in Invisibility: Simple so that it's transparent and not semi-opaque.

narcissus wrote:You could also go with Sheltering Force to provide some environmental protection / temperature moderation, and throw in Invisibility: Simple so that it's transparent and not semi-opaque.

Unfortunately, that provides very little advantage, only a 5.6 degree Celcius temperature moderation, and costs over four times as much in PPE, cash and time (plus a carat of ruby quartz).

What I thought was that Energy Field could be used also, for the enclosure FF TW vehicle feature.

That would work, though again the higher casting cost would make the feature more expensive.

Not necessarily. Energy Field's gem is cheaper than Magic Shield. In theory it is (credit wise) cheaper to improve the Gem's carat for EF than MS, which would reduce the activation cost. For example if you double the carat of the gem (6) for each, when I do the math I end up with a activation costs of 1 PPE for each (I'm assuming you can't go below 1 when using PPE, the actual values are 0.5 and 0.833) AND the EF has a final cost with gems included of 2800c (vs3000c for MS). Build time and PPE Construction Costs are higher, but the end product is actually cheaper (and remains so at 5carats each, at 4.5carats it favors MS). The math also favors Sheltering Force over MS starting with 9.5carat (SF is can not be made cheaper vs EF).

ShadowLogan wrote:Not necessarily. Energy Field's gem is cheaper than Magic Shield. In theory it is (credit wise) cheaper to improve the Gem's carat for EF than MS, which would reduce the activation cost. For example if you double the carat of the gem (6) for each, when I do the math I end up with a activation costs of 1 PPE for each (I'm assuming you can't go below 1 when using PPE, the actual values are 0.5 and 0.833) AND the EF has a final cost with gems included of 2800c (vs3000c for MS). Build time and PPE Construction Costs are higher, but the end product is actually cheaper (and remains so at 5carats each, at 4.5carats it favors MS). The math also favors Sheltering Force over MS starting with 9.5carat (SF is can not be made cheaper vs EF).

Interesting; I hadn’t considered the gem cost. And I agree that activation cost bottoms out at 1.

Whitewings wrote:Enclosure (Level 6)

This feature is normally applied to open vehicles such as motorcycles and speedboats. When activated, the vehicle, or at least its cockpit or passenger area, is covered by a light (2 MDC) force field, protecting from rain, snow, wind, and similar.

Ah, the TW Ley-top convertible.
I can see a Technowizard dealership offering glare-protection and even one-way visibility(blurs, if not outright obscures, you to people looking in at you) as options to this.

A ley Line magic screen door.
Just the thing for your getaway cabin you use when there is a magic spike to harvest.

drewkitty ~..~ wrote:A ley Line magic screen door.
Just the thing for your getaway cabin you use when there is a magic spike to harvest.

Keeps out those darn Ley line floaters and phase-ghosts.

What about fire bolt, fuel flame and sustain to power a engine.