Re: [FT] PBeM

>  What do people think of the following firing orders (that will fire
>non-expendable weapons)
>
>TARGET X, Y, Z
>
>  Fire at those ships in that order of preference.
>
>DEFEND X, Y
>
>  Fire on any ship that is in range and has fired on X or Y this turn.
>(this order makes no sense if I set the 'simultaneous fire' game
option)

You realise that these could, in theory, alternate as well. Ex: TARGET
X,
DEFEND Y, TARGET Z.

>  If the ship has more valid targets than it has firecontrols it will
use
>the order of preference, then target size, then random selection to
assign the
>FCS.

Are you saying here that the default is to spread fire? I would think
that
concentration of fire, excepting ships out of arc, would be the default.

>  As a further thought, you could assign a weighting to the enemy ships
which
>will be applied to determine their 'value' for targetting purposes.

Good idea, but how workable is it?

>Comments? Suggestions?  (I'm casting out the suggestion line again here
;) )

Could be interesting. How are you thinking about running this? I've done
PBEM Spreadsheets that essentially do most of this. Are you intending to
make this automated in some way?

...and lastly, what's your "added value" that would make players use
this
as opposed to the PBEM sheets already out there?

I'm not TRYING to be difficult here, just curious.

Schoon