Re: [DS] No Capacity was: Points system (fresh)

Yeah, the DS2 system needs some work, but so much that it needs to be 
scrapped altogether.

Some of the real world examples depend on assumptions. One big one is 
the Ontos, with its six recoiless rifles. That's way too many to fit on 
a small vehicle. Looked at another way, the Ontos has just one weapon 
system and maybe giving it a single SLAM is more accurate (my copy of 
DS2 is hiding right now or I'd run out the stats). The SLAM is much 
closer to how the Ontos was actually used, so it is more accurate to 
rate it that way.

Any other vehicles that DS2 can't build ?

Brian Bell wrote:

>We don't complain about the mass and points system in FT because there
are
>no real life examples of combat starships (at least none that those of
us
>without clearance ratings are told about), so we can't complain that
"the
>NASA Space BB Can mount 10 Class-2 Beams in a mass 30 craft, but we
can't do
>that in FT".
>
>In DS2, we cannot build some of the vehicles in use today due to the
>capacity system. This is a scifi game, so we should assume that systems
>would be smaller, so should be able to fit more equipment not less.
>
>-Bri
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>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>Subject: Re: [DS] No Capacity was: Points system (fresh)
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>On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Michael Llaneza wrote:
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>>John just found another reason why I like the capacity system in DS2
>>pretty much as is.
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>Ya know, I find it interesting, Full Thrust uses what is essentially
>a capacity (Mass) and points system to design starships, yet no one's
>bitching about that.  ;-)  It's not perfect but it works pretty well.
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>Mk
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