Re: [FT] Yet Another Fighters Suggestion

From: "Hugh Fisher" <laranzu@ozemail.com.au>

>  The problem is that they scale in a non-linear fashion.
>  If you have ten times as many points of beam weapons,
>  you are roughly ten times more effective. (There are
>  some non-linear effects, such as more chance of double
>  or worse threshhold failure.) If you have ten times as
>  many fighters in a "stack of doom" then it's far more
>  than ten times as effective.
> 
>  Increasing the cost of fighters will move the point at
>  which they become too deadly up, but it will also make
>  them too expensive in smaller battles.

That's why I like the limit of number of Fighters attacking
one ship. It restores linearity, with minimal change.