Re: Heavy Beams - 3rd Attempt

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 BDShatswell@aol.com wrote:

> I would like to toss out for you all to discuss another option for
recharging 
> heavy beams. . . 
> 
> The BPS generates power directly from the main drive of the vessel. 
During 
> the orders-writing phase, the player may spend unused MD points toward

> charging the capacitor.  EX:	A top secret experimental UNSC prototype
BB 
> (thrust-4) plots its course as P2+2 and shunts 2 points toward its
empty BPS 
> giving it a total charge of 2 EPs ready to be expended during the
weapons 
> fire phase or stored for later use.

problem: consider 10-mass and a 100-mass ships mounting HBs. both spend
a
thrust point to boost the capacitor; both gain 1 extra point. now, the
10-mass ship just used 0.5 mass of drive to do that, whereas the
100-mass
ship used 5 mass. thrust is not something that you can use in this way;
otoh, it might work if you added points equal to the mass of drive used,
or half of it, or something.

tom