Re: Soap bubbles?

Instead of a hard limit, wouldn't a scaling limit rectify those
problems?  Ie. X
number of fighters for Y tonnage/hull/points/foo?

Rand.

Oerjan Ohlson wrote:

> Alan Brain wrote:
>
> >One idea that's been mooted on the playtest list for over a year is
as
> >follows:
> >
> >a) Max 6 fighter groups allowed to attack one ship in a turn, but no
limits
> >on SMs or MT missiles.
> >b) PDS fires twice vs fighters (only), OR once vs SM/MT Missiles.
> >
> >Currently this idea is out of favour, but I still like it. Requires
> >no change to points values, no change to FB1 fleet design philosophy,
> >and minimal rules. KISS.
>
> The main drawback with it (and the reason it is out of favour) is that
> playtests of it showed that it does not solve the fighter imbalance
except
> for BDNs and larger (and if the ships become large enough, TMF 300+ or
so,
> fighters become effectively useless against them), which makes large
ships
> even more powerful than they already are - cf. the recent CPV vs NPV
thread...
>
> Regards,
>
> Oerjan
> oerjan.ohlson@telia.com
>
> "Life is like a sewer.
>   What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
> -Hen3ry