Re: [FT] Weapon Mechanisms

What makes this dificult in FT, is every weapon has a different to-hit
proceedure.

It would be easier if they all used a single system.  Then a lot of
other
things like ECM, speed adjustments, ect would be lots easier.  Tho' that
would mean you would have to roll to hit, then roll for damage.

Just an idea.

Donald Hosford

Richard and Emily Bell wrote:

> Anthony Leibrick wrote:
>
> > How do members of the list envision what the various weapon
mechanisms
> > represent?For example I always think of the standard beam as almost
a
> > machine gun type effect, it blankets the area of the target with
> > shots, the closer in the higher the percentage of possible hits.If
you
> > design a weapon, do you envision the effect you want to simulate,
and
> > design the mechanism to represent it, or do you think of a neat mech
> > and nominate what weapon this simulates
>
> The model of beams being energy projectors that pepper a region of
space
> where the ship could be is workable enough; although, really following
> through on that theme would be to compute range bands as a function of
> mass and thrust.  This is actually a good way to solve the problem of
> little ships evaporating at long range.  A function that I would be
> interested in testing would be a base value plus a modifier that
> depended on the (mass)^(2/3), minus a modifier that depended on the
> square of the thrust.  Proportionality constants keep the numbers to
an
> appropriate range.  To reflect that, at close ranges, no amount of
> agility will evade a lightspeed weapon, the first range band has a
> minimum value of 6mu.
>
> This type of modelling has the potential to end the problem of escorts
> being outranged by capital ships, and the calulations need only be
done
> three times for