Re: Beam Batteries

	Regarding everybody's individual beam bat house rules--

	How many people out there are using some sort of sliding mass
scale
for beam battery arcs? We're presently allowing 1 mass single-arc B bats
and
2 mass single-arc A bats. My concern is that without some sort of
bargain on
mass, there's really very little incentive to get a one arc weapon but
that
if you allow weapons to have only 1 arc but at about half the mass the
players will only use 1 arc beam bats because they have twice the
firepower-to-mass ratio.

	Please consider this a call for thoughtless (and even
thoughtful)
rambling.

	James
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