Re: [FT] Tech Level? Is there such a thing?

On Wed, 16 May 2001 04:42:13 -0700 (PDT), David Griffin
<carbon_dragon@yahoo.com> wrote:

>The idea of a smaller ship
>which is more powerful than a larger ship is something
>you can't do in FT unless you build it at a particular
>mass and cost it at that mass and say it's really
>a lighter mass in real life. 

No, there is a way. Don't fill up all the available mass with weapons.
This is
quite possible. You also end up with a cheaper ship. You could have a
mass 40
ship filled to the bulkheads with weapons, and you could have mass 60
ships
with a lot of excess space. It's quite legal and easy.

There's a tendency for players who do "design your own" ships to make
the
ships as powerful as possible. This is usually because campaigns and
"bring an
X point ship" style games require as nasty a ship as possible. However,
if
your group is trying to represent a specific universe (homegrown, book
based,
or media based), you can build interesting designs you won't see
usually.

Allan Goodall		       awg@sympatico.ca
Goodall's Grotto:  http://www.vex.net/~agoodall

"Now, see, if you combine different colours of light,
 you get white! Try that with Play-Doh and you get
 brown! How come?" - Alan Moore & Kevin Nolan,