Re: Why big ships are too good...

Some things in life just aint fair <grin>.  Just as escorts have an
easier
time getting up to speed 8 than do capital ships, capital ships have an
easier time setting up defensive systems.  If you were a single fighter,
which would you rather face, the defense system of a single destroyer,
or
the defense system of of a Battleship?
  Question: someone mentioned something about being able to place 3
shields on an escort.  How can this be?  It takes a minimum of 9 mass
units to get 3 shields.  This would mean that the ship had to have a
minimum of 18 mass units.  Isn't this larger than an escort class ship?
(again, I wish I hadn't lent out my copy of the rules!!!)

On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, lojeck wrote:

> 
> I just noticed something, shields are 25 pts/level regardless of the
size
> of the ship. this is obviously incorrect from a game-balance sense,
since
> if you have more "hit points" for your ship, the shields become much
more
> influential in the game...
> 
> now I just need to think up a way to make it "fair"er...
> 
> 
> 
> Brian Lojeck
> lojeck@mizar.usc.edu
> 
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they've
> been reading it, they notice it because... This is the .sig that never
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