Re: Fighter Balance Issues (LONG)

In a message dated 98-02-15 05:44:07 EST, you write:

<< For example, in current times, fighters have much higher speeds than
their
 target ships, are fairly survivable against ship based weapons and are
only
 vulnerable to other fighters, and carry relatively cost effective
weapons
that
 can severly damage or even sink ships. >>

Just a comment:

Modern ship weapons are actually very effective against A/C. The
"fighters"
ability to survive is mostly because they don't even try to get close.
Instaed
A/C with antiship missions rely on long range stand off weapons like
Harpoon
or Exocet launched from over the horizon.

Prehaps that will be the most deterministic factor in space combat (game
or
future): no horizon to hide behind. The target ship will certainly be
carrying
waepons as effective as any fighter.