Re: [FT] CPV vs. NPV

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:01:41 -0800, "Eric Foley" <stiltman@teleport.com>
wrote:

>It _is_ true that tackling a really big ship of that sort is something
of a
>chore.  But it's not a great enough advantage that a well-handled force
of
>smaller ships can't take it down, as has been demonstrated both here by
me
>and by Oerjan with his test games of Kra'Vak escort cruisers against
some of
>my own older "Dreadplanet Roberts" designs. 

You weren't playing vector, were you? Try it in vector, with that huge
ship
able to spin in place and I think you'd find the results different.

You do make a very good point, though. A point system is never going to
work
100% in a game where you can design your own ships. It's always going to
be
possible to create a ship or ships that just are not worth the points.
For
instance, you could make a ship holding nothing but PDS. It's not going
to be
much use against anything but fighters, so in most cases it won't be
worth the
points. 

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