Re: Nova Cannons

Tim Jones wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, June 10, 1998 12:10 AM, Oerjan Ohlson
> [SMTP:oerjan.ohlson@nacka.mail.telia.com] wrote:
> > Tim Jones wrote:
> >
> > > Hence the Fleet Book, sort of deprecates them as they
> > > upset play balance too much.
> >
> > The Fleet Book doesn't depreciate the Nova Cannon and Wave Cannon
very
> > much,
> 
> Deprecate isn't the same as depreciate, it wasn't a typo ;-)
> 
> The meaning is to play down or disapprove of something
> 
> What I meant was that FB1 still has them but there is an
> editorial saying that they upset balance, are genre specific and
should be
> used with caution if at all. I'm afraid you got the wrong end of the
stick.
> 
> >
> > At least the Wavegun was specifically included for Anime-style
battles
> > (some of the Anime series, at least).
> 
> Yes, exactly, the idea is not include them in general fleet designs,
in the
> FT universe say, as they are very genre specific.

	Personally, I can only think of two ways to balance the
super-uber
weapons of doom:
	1.  Increase the mass and points cost... A lot.
	2.  Increase the amount of energy it would take to charge the
weapon. 
Perhaps we should adopt a similar charging system to that of the HBW in
the EFSB and which will appear (after we work the bugs out) in FTIII. 
The nova cannon should have the most power-hungry, demanding several
turns of recharging before I can be fired, on top of the current
restrictions (i.e. no other weapons fire, shields down, no vector
changes.)  Ditto for the wave gun, only just less so.
-- 
Later,
Mark A. Siefert

     "Think of all the considerations that go into each decision you
make: 
Is it ethical? Is it good in the long run? Who benefits? Who is harmed?
What
will it cost? Does it go with the couch? Now imagine a large
group-imagine a
very large group, say, 250 million people-trying to agree on every
decision
made by every person in the country. The result would be stupid, silly
and 
hugely wasteful-in short, the result would be government."

				     --P.J. O'Rourke

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