Re: Odd Tons (was Damn the Torp...)

This is one of the still disputed intrepretations of the Full Thrust
rules.
Some say that odd ton ships round up both systems tonnage and damage
boxes
(making a cheaper version of the next larger even ton ship). Others say
to
round both down (making odd ships more expensive than the next smaller
even
ton ship). Still others say to round up the system tonnage and round
down
the damage boxes. This gives more weapons/systems but tends to make the
standard ships less powerful by comparison. I prefer to round down the
system tonnage and round up damage. This only provides 1 extra damage
box.
I feel this gives the standard ships a better cost/preformance ratio. 

Jon? Any [official] comments?

Brian Bell
pdga6560@csi.com
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pdga6560/fthome.html
Includes the Full Thrust Ship Registry
Is your ship design here?

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> From: Joachim Heck - SunSoft <jheck@East.Sun.COM>
> To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject: Oops and Re: Damn the torpedoes and others (long)
> Date: Monday, March 31, 1997 3:04 PM
> 
> @:) No, since that's an illegal design. Odd masses are not allowed,
> @:) and in any case, a missile weighs in at 2 mass. But you got close
> @:) ;-)
> 
>   Is this true?  I don't think odd masses are not allowed but I'd love
> to be contradicted on this since they are in almost all ways identical
> to even-massed ships with one greater mass.  But they're cheaper.
>