Re: [FT] Fighter descriptions

Perhaps use the following nomenclature... stick with the regular H/A/T/I
for
the basic stuff, and put the letter in lowercase if those elements are
weakened rather than strengthened.

So an attack fighter standard would be...

24-12/6Ai

And if you just flat out _can't_ attack something, stick a "-x" suffix
after
the letter.  Standard interceptor is thus...

24-12/6Ia-x

Another way to do it would be to leave the letter in uppercase but put
it in
parentheses or something to indicate a weakening...

24-12/6A(I) for an attack fighter
24-12/6I(A-x) for an interceptor

Thus, all the letters stay intuitive but you can adopt one or the other
nomenclature to use the same letter to denote either a strengthening or
a
weakening rather than adding a different one and having to remember what
the
heck it refers to.

Just a thought...

E
(aka Stilt Man)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Burton West" <roger@firedrake.org>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:28 AM
Subject: Re: [FT] Fighter descriptions

> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:03:04PM -0400, Nyrath the nearly wise
wrote:
>
> >Here's what I have so far.  Perhaps it can be the
> >basis for something useful with some editing from
> >the minds of gzg-l.
>
> I have no problem with the numbers, but I think the letter codes are
> potentially unintuitive. H/A/T/I are easy because they're the same as
> the fighter types, but the others will be hard to remember. Perhaps if
> you give a word for each letter? (e.g. L = "limited antifighter",
> W = "weak antiship", but I'm sure someone else can come up with more
> sensible versions.)
>
> R