RE: Full Thrust vs Starmada

Tom McCarthy wrote:

[snip summary of the fighter balance problem]

>Oerjan's take would likely be more detailed and accurate.

Between the two of you you and Roger got all the important features of
the 
fighter balance, so I won't have to :-)

>But Jon definitely feels some settings demand fighters that are immune
to 
>anti-ship weapons, and leans towards making fighters harder to use. 
And 
>making them harder to use without making the game hard to learn is a
challenge.

"A challenge" is an understatement IMO. Frankly, I don't think it is
even 
possible to achieve a fighter balance if fighters are immune to
anti-ship 
weapons *and* fleets are able to spend anything from 0% to 100% of their

resources on carriers like they are in eg. the GZGverse... I believe
that 
there's a very strong reason why just about every non-FT space combat
game 
which both features fighters and allows players to custom-design their 
ships, also allows anti-ship weapons to fire at fighters :-/

Later,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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