Fractional Hull Masses (was: FT III)

Roger Books wrote:

> If the current FB "tie-in" to FT3 is ever turned into FT3 there is
> one little minor change I would like to see, say the minimum hull
> is 10% and let people buy hull just like any other system.  If you
> had 1 hull box take up 1 mass and cost exactly the same as it
> does now you could do the exact same ships as is done currently,
> have added flexibility, and be much less annoying.
>
> Roger (#!$%, I'm one mass over on weapons again, but I want 30%
>	 hull minus one box.)

I came across this when I was trying to determine how much it actually
cost to use fighters (or a Jeanne D'Arc its 69 points), and needed to
use 46% for the Hull boxes to get the same number on a ship without the
Hangers. I don't see why, especialy with the programs / spreadsheets out
there, ships need to be limited to exact multiples of 10%. Other than
easy of doing the math by hand.

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