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:

you have to lok at things like shock damage, power surge/power failure
damage, Not just battle damage. The more a ship is damages the harder it
is to keep working systems working.
> 
>      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
> 
> As compared to the current system:
> 
> (11) XXXXXXXXXXX	       6
> (11) XXXXXXXXXXX	     5,6
> (10) XXXXXXXXXX	   4,5,6
> (10) XXXXXXXXXX	    dead
> 
> In the current system, a heavily damaged capital ship can still
present
> a considerable threat, while the in new system, it can be neutralized
> somewhat more easily.
> 
maybe skipping the threshold check on the first row, that would keep
them alive longer, but still model the ease knocking out systems on a
heavily damaged ship.
or Buying Armor, add an extra row of boxes for a price.

marshall