RE: Re: Another tack on fighters

At 12:24 PM -0400 5/3/02, laserlight@quixnet.net wrote:
>From: Flak Magnet flakmagnet@tabletop-battlezone.com
>>Nothing that turns me off to the game, but
>it certainly makes me want to develop some rules for running a campaign
>in which players are forced to do evolutionary ship design...
>
>Try this:
>a. Everyone starts with 5 ship classes and spends their 
>money/production points to buy these.
>b. The SSDs and quantity of each class are published to all players.
>c. Each player may now design one variant for each class, changing 
>up to 10% of the mass of weapons, sensors or defense systems.	Hull, 
>drives and armor must remain the same.  Up to 1/3 of the ships in 
>the class may be changed to the variant at no charge.
>d. Variant SSDs are published to all players--number in service is 
>not published.
>e. Campaign starts.
>f. the first ship of a new design class takes 3 times as long and 
>costs 3 times as much as succeeding ships.
>g. refitting new systems to existing ships costs 200% of the system.

I like I like.

How about adding in one caveat? Specifically that if a ship has 
unused mass, that mass cost normal (or perhaps 150%) for refits. This 
illustrates the trend with a new ships being designed with midlife 
improvement wiggle room.

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