Re: Maximizing ship designs

Slaan@aol.com writes:

@:) It is interesting to me that ship optimization vice specific
@:) designs is an issue.  My first step in analyzing FT was to
@:) determine what "missions" were required, and then design ships to
@:) fulfill that mission role.

  I guess the question is whether you needed to bother.  What if you
just plunked down a bunch of mass 36, thrust 7 cruisers with 6 3-arc A
batteries each (cost 312 - thrust 3 gives cost 240)?  Would they be
able to destroy your opponents intricately complicated multi-ship-type
fleet?	If so, optimization is a problem.

-joachim