Re: Heavy Beams - 3rd Attempt

Hey again!

In a message dated 02/01/2000 4:20:03 PM Central Standard Time, 
Noam.Izenberg@jhuapl.edu writes:

> > Beam Power System:
>  > Class 1	4 MASS	12 POINT COST
>  > Class 2	8 MASS	24 POINT COST
>  > Class 3	12 MASS 36 POINT COST
>  > etc.
>  
>  > [NOTE: Even though I could have done Class 1-6, at 2 MASS and the
same
>  cost
>  > per MASS, so it would be 1 die and 1 point capacitance per Class,
that
>  >would make damage a real pain. I'd have to round down on halving,
and
>  > everyone would just buy even numbers anyway.]
>  
>  True, but that measn that 2/4/6 are still the most useful descriptors
of
>  capacitance than Class 1/2/3. But that's a semantic value only
>  

Noam has me thinking here.  Maybe we we need to bring back the A-B-C 
designations and use them for these heavy beams BPS.  What if we had a
system 
like this:

__BPS__________Mass_____Pt Cost_____EP Capacity
.Class
A..................4................12...................2..........
.Class
B..................8................24...................4..........
.Class
C................12................36...................6..........
and on and on as high as we need to go.

Comments?

Bill