Re: Technology levels was FT Newtonian Acceleration

Jared Hilal wrote:

>Unfortunately, there is a deliberate attempt to limit the size of the 
>standard battery to C3 or C4 by making C4 and larger disproportionately

>expensive in terms of size (mass) relative to their combat potential 
>(compared to smaller batteries of the same type). I.e. a 3-arc class 3 
>battery is not three times as useful as a 3-arc class 2, a class 4 is
not 
>twice as useful as a class 3, a class 5 is not 4x as useful as a class
3 etc.

Ever tried playing on large tables, where the B4 is able to pick those 
B2-armed ships apart from outside their range? If you did, you might
revise 
your opinion about the relative value of B2s and B4s :-/

But yes, there's a deliberate attempt to limit beam batteries to size 
classes which don't have the range to cover an entire gaming table from
one 
short edge to the other. All other weapon types have ranges which are 
independent of their size class (eg., all K-guns have range 30), so
there's 
no need to restrict them in the same way.

Regards,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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