RE: [FT] Shhhh! In-game secrets...

In general we play that SSD's are available before the game - you should
know what a "Tribune" Class cruiser is capable of, but once the game
starts, damage is now known, so SSD's of the player are not open
knowledge.  Blank SSD's of the appropiate class may be shared.

Velocity is open information, otherwise you have everyone sitting around
watching everyone else move, and then measuring and recording the move. 
Why bother since the moving player has already done all that work?

We usually don't disclose types of fighters in a group until they fire,
then they are marked specifically.  The thought being that the fighters
are stealthed/ECM'd enough that individual identification would be
difficult at standard engagement ranges. Perhaps this opens the can of
worms for Advanced PDF's that allow picking out individual targets?

--Binhan

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
[mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Flak Magnet
(Tim)
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 12:52 PM
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: [FT] Shhhh! In-game secrets...

We have a polite difference of opinion in our FT group about what kind
of 
information should be freely shared during a game of Full Thrust, so I 
thought I'd ask what the rest of you think, or how you guys play it:

After a game has started (meaning ship designs are finalized, etc) do
you guys 
and gals keep your SSDs secret from the other players or do you let them
see 
them?

If someone asks, is a player obligated to tell another player his ship's

velocity?

During the PDS allocation phase, is the player with the fighters
obligated to 
accurately disclose what TYPES of fighters are contained in each group?

This last ?? isn't so much about in-game secrets:

I thought there was something about torpedo fighters being generally
banned 
from the Tuffleyverse canon by Jon T. himself, but I haven't been able
to 
find anything about that in the archives... am I mistaken completely?

TIA

-- 
--Flak Magnet
"If you don't think life is interesting
you're not paying attention."  Me, around 1988