Re: [OFFICIAL] Where we're going from here...[LONG RAMBLE!!]

At 11:30 PM 8/24/97 +0300, you wrote:

>b) PLEASE no nation/race-specific "freebie" bonuses in designs. Or if 
>you must include such, please write them so the ship is still usable
(and 
>book-legal) in generic environment. E.g. "NAC PDAF's get +1 to hit" 
>rather than "NAC PDAF's weigh only XXX and cost only YYY". With the 
>former, I can just take the ship and ignore the nation-specific bonus, 
>with the latter, the entire design is useless.

I'm with Mikko on this. I wouldn't mind seeing some races using weapons
that
other races don't (I think most people assume this, anyway) but I want
to be
able to use all weapons for my own universe. However, letting some races
"cheat" when designing ships, well, you might as well throw away the
design
system. I don't think we have to worry about this from Jon, though,
based on
his track record. When it comes to his games, he might as well have
called
his company Integrity Games.

Allan Goodall:	agoodall@sympatico.ca 
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