Re: FT: Damage Track Sliding Scale Suggestion

>>  Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 12:50:38 -0500 (EST)
>>  From: Rick Rutherford <rickr@ss1.digex.net>
>>  Subject: Re: FT: Damage Track Sliding Scale Suggestion
...
>>  There's a problem with this: "the poor get poorer". Once a ship has
>>  taken about 1/2 damage, it starts to degenerate into a drifting lump
of
>>  wires & circuit boards as more and more systems fail due to all
those 
>>  threshhold checks.	This would make it easier to destroy the ships
in 
>>  the game, especially the large, "fear-of-ghod" capital ship. For
example,
>>  I assume a mass-84 superdreadnaught would look something like this:
>>  
>>	 damage boxes	Threshhold roll:
>>  (12) XXXXXXXXXXXX		 6
>>  (10) XXXXXXXXXX	       5,6
>>   (8) XXXXXXXX	     4,5,6
>>   (6) XXXXXX 	     4,5,6
>>   (4) XXXX		     4,5,6
>>   (2) XX		      dead

I believe it is supposed to look more like this:

     damage boxes   Threshhold roll:
(12) XXXXXXXXXXXX	     6
(10) XXXXXXXXXX 	     6
 (8) XXXXXXXX		     6
 (6) XXXXXX		     6
 (4) XXXX		     6
 (2) XX 		  dead

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