Re: 3 arc cost

>On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, John Leary wrote:
>
>> ...Snip...(JTL)
>> it will
>> > ultimately boil down to "I'm already paying 700 points for this
battleship,
>> > and adding full arcs to all weapons is only X points more? Load 'em
up."
>> ...(snip...(JTL)
>> Mikko,
>>	I hate to bring this up, but that is already the case with
>> the average capital ship.
>
>Eh, that's my point: The current system does not produce results
>I'd like to see, thus IMHO it needs to be changed to include mass (or 
>work on a mass only bases -- heck, that's almost the case anyway, most 
>systems already follow the 3pts=1mass formula).
>
>Should extra arcs take mass, it's not a question of simple throwing in 
>a few more points. It becomes a question of what you can fit in the
hull.

This is exactly what we're doing in the FTIII test material right now.

Jon (GZG)
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