Re: Maximizing ship designs

On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Joachim Heck - SunSoft wrote:

>   I guess the question is whether you needed to bother.  What if you
> just plunked down a bunch of mass 36, thrust 7 cruisers with 6 3-arc A
> batteries each (cost 312 - thrust 3 gives cost 240)?	Would they be
> able to destroy your opponents intricately complicated multi-ship-type
> fleet?  If so, optimization is a problem.

IMHO, "no limits on thrust" is a problem. You can make e.g. the heavy 
cruiser designs much better with relatively little cost without 
sacrificing anything.

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