Re: [FT] Obsolete ships
From: John Leary <john_t_leary@p...>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:43:15 -0800
Subject: Re: [FT] Obsolete ships
John M. Atkinson wrote:
>
> One of the ideas I was playing with for a while was to have a NRE
> 'mothball' or Reserve fleet with older ships which no longer quite cut
> it on the front lines. I wasn't sure how to represent this. One
> thought I had was to remove the more 'high-tech' weapons, and to make
> the ones that were installed bulkier. Any ideas on exactally how to
peg
> the ratio of 'modern' size to 'obsolete' size, and how to point-cost
> them?
>
> John M. Atkinson
How about twice the size and half the cost.
(The actual ratio we used to use was; half the size, ten times cost.
But that just wouldn't work for FT.)
Bye for now,
John L.