Re: New FTJava Scenarios

[Oerjan Ariander <oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tony Christney replied to Noam:

> >How big a tweak is it to:
> >
> >a) Make bases capable of A-Arc fire at all times
> >b) Add in the Official optional rule as a FTJ game setting (which
> >would make three possible game modes in all: 1) Aft arc fire always
> >allowed; 2) Aft arc fire never allowed (except for no-thrust bases);
> >and 3) Aft arc fire allowed if movement orders are "0".
>
>To do 2) or 3) is actually a fairly big job. What makes it
>difficult is that ship systems have no knowledge of which
>ship they are attached to, i.e. one way linkage.

Last time I played FTJava games variant 2) - ie., the FT2/FB default rule - 
was already implemented as an option for ships, so it shouldn't be too hard 
to add <g>

Variant 3) would use each ship's latest Movement Orders as the flag 
determining which of code variants 1) and 2) to use, instead of having a 
single flag set at the start of the battle that applies to the entire game.

(Note that the FB1 optional rule allows ships to change course and still 
fire through the (A) arc; IMO this is *far* too lenient since at least in 
Cinematic course changes tend to be more important than speed changes.)

/Oerjan
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