[FT] MU sizes (was Re: various subsystems)

TomB:
>>On another note:
>>Someone (Admiral Iceberg?) suggested using varying MU values
>>to denote tech differences. This seems an awesome idea. It is
>>generic, not limited to one system or another, and affects
>>all ships systems in a related way. What gradations would one
>>suggest? I might imagine 0.5 inch, 0.75 inch, 1 inch, 1.25
>>inch and 1.5 inch would give you a spread to cover everything
>>up to and including quite advanced tech. Typically, you wouldn't
>>likely see more than 1 TL difference in most scenarios... 

Oerjan:
>Even a 0.25" MU difference is quite massive. The difference between
>0.5" MUs and 1.5" MUs, well - to quote OHMU: "Who are you trying to
>kid? [...] This is like playing World War 1 tanks against World War 2
>ones ..."

I should note that my original suggestion example varied the 1" MU to 3
cm
for high tech (18% increase distance, 40% increase in range band area),
2 cm
for low tech (~21% decrease distance, 38% decrease in range band area).
I
thought the costs I associated with the MU differences were
commensurate, at
least for playtesting (I believe cost went with the square of the
percentage
difference in MU size), and I picked those just because they were
easiest.
With a marked-off ribbon, you could easlily make High tech MU's 1.1" and
low
tech 0.9"

Noam