Re: Distributed Fire Control

CMitch5046@aol.com writes:

@:) << System: Distributed Fire Control
@:)  Mass: 3
@:)  Cost: 30
@:)  
@:)    The distributed fire control enhances the standard fire control
@:)  system by giving the ship the ability to transmit and receive
@:)  fire control telemetry.  A DFC may be used as though it were a
@:)  normal fire control system.  If desired, any ship with a working
@:)  DFC system may choose to use it to receive fire control telemetry
@:)  from any DFC on any other friendly ship that has not yet been
@:)  used.  The DFC receiving the telemetry cannot itself target any
@:)  ships that turn.  Any DFC's that provide telemetry to a ship
@:)  cannot later be used to provide telemetry to another ship or to
@:)  the ship's own weapons.  Needle beams cannot be guided by remote
@:)  DFC telemetry.  >>
@:) 
@:) I don't see any benifit in this under the rules in FT or MT why
@:) would you want to effectively disable one of your own firecons in
@:) order to download information from another ship when it will not
@:) alter your firing solution.

  You're right.  Well, there might be some point but in rereading my
oh-so-carefully-worded description I realize that I got it wrong.  I
was thinking more along the lines of:

  ... If desired, any ship with a working DFC system may choose to use
it to receive fire control telemetry from any number of DFC's on any
				       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
other friendly ships as long as those DFC's have not yet been used.

  This allows one DFC on a ship to act as any number of fire
controls.  Any number up to the number of other DFC's you have in the
battle, that is.

-joachim