Re: "Realistic" Systems Ideas

At 10:53 PM 10/30/96 +0000, you wrote:

>> There is room for abuse here though.  I could mount enough
sandcasters to
>> put out a "4" cloud in any one of the port, starboard, and fore arcs.
 I'd
>> be completely screened against enemy fire to get in close to your
fleet.
>
>It would be very difficult to put out a >3 cloud with a one caster per
>arc limit as Mark posted.
>
>		Carl Black

	A one caster per arc limit is illogical. The ship won't explode
if
we install two level two systems. A better solution would be to say that
because of dissipation it is impossible for a ship to generate a >3
cloud no
matter how many systems were active at the same time. Besides which, if
I
were relying on this system to protect me (no screens) then I would
definitely want backups. And if each system comes with only so many
effective uses, I might have ships (such as troop transports and/or
priority
transports and such) that I would want to have extra uses even if I
couldn't
use them (both systems) at the same time.

	James
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