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Re: B5 style drives

From: "Oerjan Ohlson" <oerjan.ohlson@t...>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:14:59 +0100
Subject: Re: B5 style drives

Roger Books wrote:

>We've been toying with the idea of going to B5 style drives, and
>what we're looking at is as follows.
> 
>A drive costs 4% of the mass of your ship +3% per thrust.

[examples snipped]

>Any thoughts?

1) How do you handle thrust-1 engines? Are they halved when damaged, or
do they go down completely (as a single thrust-1 engine does in the
published rules)?

2) Multiple engine modules take more DCP rolls to repair when they're
damaged.

Regards,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

"Life is like a sewer.
  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
- Hen3ry

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