Re: [FT] Heavy Beams
From: Sean Bayan Schoonmaker <schoon@a...>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 17:03:45 -0800
Subject: Re: [FT] Heavy Beams
.>I'm not sure I like this - having a second roll for a threshold check
breaks
>the flow of the check (you can't just go blindly through every symbol
on
>an SSD
>checking for a 4/5/6). I'd prefer to see it take the second damage
result each
>time (ie lose all stored energy and halve capacity) which is analogous
to the
>way damage is inflicted on manouevre drives.
OK, I agree here. I'll change that.
>Presumably a ship can have more than one BPS ? In which case should BEs
be
>linked to a particular BPS in the same way as SMLs are linked to a
specific
>magazine ?
Exactly correct. I'll make it explicit in the next draft.
Schoon