Re: Fleet Book

Status: RO

>Jon,
>
>Are you using a new or tweaked ship design system for the ships
>in the fleet book?  Is it finalized (as much as you can anything
>is which is not yet in print) yet?
>
>thanks,
>andy
>
>-- 
>Andy Skinner
>askinner@avs.com

Yes, and No, respectively. Having decided that we're going to fix things
like the Battery Mass problems, and wanting to move to the "variable
Mass
drives" (ie: a % of Mass per thrust level), this would invalidate all
the
"old" ship designs anyway (even just moving A Batts from 3 to 4 mass
would
do that!), so we've decided to go the whole hog and use a completely
revised design system, which will of course be expained fully in the
Fleet
Book.
The system is nearly there, but not yet finalised, we're currently doing
a
lot of playtesting to see how the various systems and designs stack up
to
ensure we've got the right feel to it. I'm pretty happy with the way it
looks right now.

Jon (GZG)