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?

I guess one of the most logical ways to do it is simply to ban
odd-numbererd mass ships!! :)
More seriously, of the options you suggested I think the last one sounds
best - round systems space down and damage boxes up; but please don't
take
this as gospel - it might be interesting to allow either way, as long as
one factor (system mass or damage) is rounded down and the other up -
gives
players yet another choice to make....

Jon (GZG)

>
>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.
>>