Re: [FT\DS2] Fleet and Army sizes for games

G'day,

 >This really depends on what repair model you are using.  If you allow
a
 >system to be replaced with any system of the same mass for its basic
 >cost, then all ships are modular anyway.  If changing a "non-modular"
 >ship's configuration is more expensive, or more time consuming, than
 >swapping modules, then some expense must have gone into the modular
ship
 >to make swapping modules easier.  Lastly, the modules are not doing
 >diddly if they can be swapped faster than they can be repaired.

OK the repair model we use is that if its a non-modular ship then you
can 
only repair the class 3 into as a class 3 etc and that happens within
one 
week (though you can only get back a quarter of your damaged hull and 
armour boxes without actually pulling into spacedock for repairs). If
you 
change weapons that's an refit and takes multiple turns to complete -
under 
our campaign scheme you could refit up to 50% of a ship's mass and the
time 
scale accordingly with a minimum of 1 economic phase (4 campaign turns) 
between start and finish of refit. Modular ships were similar in that it

took time to swap modules (the more modules the more time), but they
were 
slightly faster than refits, but a whole lot slower than repair (as they

didn't happen by the next turn). And yes swapping modules was cheaper
than 
blanket refitting of ships, but that's because I couldn't 'tool' up all
my 
cargo haulers into warships (hadn't built enough modules to do that) -
guys 
with warships could refit all of theirs. Further I'd already paid for
the 
modules, plus some orbit platforms to protect their storage yards so I 
think I'd more than paid fairly for them. I think we're just going to
have 
to agree to disagree on this one as neither side is going to convince
the 
other I feel.

Cheers

Beth

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