RE: Small ships and SMLS & Killing Torp armed fleets.....

-MWS- <Hauptman@concentric.net> on 02/08/99 11:27:09 AM

Please respond to gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU

To:   gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
cc:    (bcc: Jared E Noble/AAI/ARCO)
Subject:  RE: Small ships and SMLS & Killing Torp armed fleets.....

>>
>> Or if you want to be a cheese-meister
>> Mass 29 (29)
>> 6 (12) hull integrity 2
>> 1 ( 2) *Thrust Factor 1
>> (all the rest the same - you shave 1 Mass and 3 pts off.)
>> *Techincally the 5% (round down) drive requirement means a mass 1
drive fits
the
>> bill.  I normally don't try to do this, but the 'Solve for Mass' page
is
often
>> (but not always) more efficient than doing things by hand - Try it
and see!
>
>The Fleet Book construction rules (pag 10) state that you round 0.5+ UP
and
>0.4999- DOWN, even for thrust.  The exception for Thrust ratings is to
give a
>minimum value of 1.

<snip your correct example of Mass 30 design same as mine>

>So, your first figure is correct.  I don't know where you were going
with the
>5% *rounded down* example . . . <g>

What I mean is just this - Thrust 1 takes 5% of the Ship's mass
so Mass 29 * .05 = 1.45 which rounds down to 1, so you can build the
same ship
at Mass 29.

Jared