Re: [FT] Hardened Systems: Bah, Humbug. Directional armor: Cool

2 Quatloos:

Hardened systems are IMHO below the resolution of FT.

Take the current proposal: +50% mass and cost, round up.

Any 1 mass system is not worth hardening:
Example:

Firecon - Mass: 1, Cost: 3
Hardened Firecon: Mass: 2, Cost 5

I would pay the extra point and have a whole additional firecon.

Any Mass 3-4 system is better served by buying other systems or armor.
My logic here is that 2 armor protects _all_ systems from one more good
beam hit.
Another example:
Rather than pay 2 mass and 6 points  for a hardened Class 3 beam, I'd
rather just buy a whole Class 2 beam, or 2 points of armor. for the same
or less cost.

A mass 5+ system is better served by buying armor or screens. Absorb 3
points of damage or reduce incoming beams by 
~16%, your choice.

2 more Quatloos:

I like directional armor. I was thinking of a system like this:
3 Directional Armor  cost 1 Mass and 3 points.
Directional armor covers 1 arc of a ship, and can be placed in any
number in any arc.

Noam




Noam R. Izenberg		noam.izenberg@jhuapl.edu