RE: Kra'vak Railgun (ECM)

The ECM affects the CARRYING ship. An area of effect ECM would provide
radius coverage. Do not allow ECM effects to be greater than -2 on
Railgun shots. This way, large ticket ships can afford to mount their
own ECM suites AND shields while dedicated ECM Area of Effect cruisers
can provide task group coverage at -1 as long as the ships are in the
radius. It's simple and has the added benefit of utilising an unused
system.

Michael Wikan, Game Designer
Accolade, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Fox [TEMP] [SMTP:John.W.Fox@Eng.Sun.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 7:28 AM
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	RE: Kra'vak Railgun (ECM)
> 
> Mike:
>   Are you saying that each ECM suite that is brought to bear on a
> particular 
> Kra'Vak ship causes the targeting to slightly less accurrate?  This
> would mean 
> the the following happens
>	LVL ECM 	Damage
>	1		-1
>	2		-2
>	3		-3
>	
>   While it is very improbable that one particluar Kra'Vak ship will
> have three 
> ECMs aimed at it the possibility does exist.	Also how are you going
> to take 
> into account area ECM.  If you have a Kra'Vak ship that is in an area
> ECM and 
> has two individual ECMs painting it this does present the situation
> with three 
> ECM on a Kra'Vak ship.
>   Might I suggest the following
>	LVL ECM 	Damage
>	1		-1
>	2 (plus)	-2
> 
>   This would limit the ability of ECM to totally screw everything up.
> Also It 
> would prevent the situation where you put three or more Area ECMs
> together to 
> get a lvl 3+ as per the first table.
>   
>   Thought for ECM
>   John
>   
>   
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> > From: Mike Wikan <MWikan@mailhost.accolade.com>
> > To: "'FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk'" <FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk>
> > Subject: RE: Kra'vak Railgun
> > Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 15:23:43 -0700
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> > 
> > I would like to resurrect the idea of ECM systems that degrade
> Railgun
> > firecons. Each "level" of ECM gives the ship effectively level 1
> armor
> > vs Railguns (which are considerably slower than Beam weapons)
> > 
> > Michael Wikan, Game Designer
> > Accolade, Inc.
> >