Re: [FT] Re: Curing the fighter blues and Warpwar(Metagaming)

Gee, replying to my own post. Am I lame, do I have a life, or what?  ;-)

> ... My take on this, at least
>very initially, is to keep tech levels 'frozen', just to get a feel for
it.
[...]
>here in the near future and put this to a test. After that, then expand
it
>to have varying tech levels and stuff,...

I just had a random thought hit me (it only stung a little). A vague way
to do a pseudo-tech level thing would be to possibly restrict the
maximum
Mass an empire may build (eg, cannot build anything larger than 40 Mass
ships) until the empire meets an enemy empire and one of their ships of
equal or greater Mass than your max-Massed ship (eg, one of your ships
encounters an enemy ship equal to or larger than the largest ship in
your
navy). At that point you can move up to the next Mass ceiling. This
would
give some reason for *not* sending out your largest ships to the front
lines.

Alternatively, instead of doing Mass-ceilings, you could just use
vanilla
FleetBook ships and put caps on ship classes (eg, you can only build
destroyer-sized ships until you meet an enemy destroyer ship or larger;
at that point you can then begin building light cruisers, or up to what-
ever the largest enemy ship encountered was). That would be the *simple*
way of doing it (but would kinda sorta 'force' you to use FB ships - 
although I would mix and match like mad! :)

Okay, enough brainstorming here. I gotta go think...  :-/

Mk
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During the run-and-fight-and-run-again battle through this forest of
horror,
she is finally cornered. Her weapons have been left deep in the bodies
of the
slain or broken against the granite-hard scales of these snakes that are
not
snakes. Her stand to the death must be fought here. Though her only
weapons
are her hands and her deep and wide knowledge of the slayers, she does
not
fear them. They will die. Of this she is sure.