Re: Heavy Beam Notes and 2nd draft

>>BE Pricing: same story. Three BEs are only 3 times as effective as 1
(by
>>the increase in arc area). However, a BE attached to a Class 3 is also
3
>>times as deadly as a BE attached to a Class 1, so this NEEDS to be
factored
>>in.
>
>Oops now you lost me! The BE just directs whats stored in the capacitor
so
>if you factor it into the capacitor then you don't need to factor it
into
>the BE as well IMHO.

True. However, consider if we make a BE a single system with a fixed
cost.
Is that same Emitter just as valuable if connected to a Class 1 or Class
3
BPS? If you don't take the BPS into consideration, people who buy Class
3
BPSs get ALOT more for their money when buying extra Emitters. They "add
arcs" to their system more chreaply than someone with a Class 1.

>Now we really are parting company <Schoon breaths sigh of relief> just
for
>ease of remembering I'd keep it that the BPS class = number of dice it
can
>hold.

I did this because it was too difficult to get a good geomentric
progression for cost with 6 classes. Now that I've gone back to a linear
system, this is possible again. However, I like the "double the Class"
deal
because you can do damage very easily.

>Shouldn't that be 36 points?>

Erm... yes.

>Now we're parting company again...
>I guess if you keep to your EP=2*rating then this is OK, though I'm
>inclined to say still too high. I don't have my FT stuff with me for
>comparisons sake right now, but how does this compare to P-trops and
>Waveguns?

Just slightly more efficeint overall compared to P-Torps. I didn't, and
really can't compare to Waveguns.

>And then mix and match so, for arguments sake I buy class 12 BPS <and
not
>much else cos I just bankrupted the economy ;)> but only attach it to
some
>class 1 BEs (cos I'm Narn) then all I can pump through each is 6 EP.
But if
>I went and got a couple of class 2 BE instead (presumably with bump
head
>gear to match) then I can put 12 dice through each. If I went one step
>further and got a class 3 BE then I could put all my dice through that
one
>projector (OK most people would probably use smaller combinations
incase of
>thresholds, but just imagine we're building a Shadow ship).

Agreed. See the 3rd draft...

Thanx for the input!

Schoon