RE: (FT) Point Value for Hulls

If you look at the FB1 construction rules, somewhere in there it does
say
that civilian vessels get 1 CF per 50 mass (which the civilian ships in
the
back have as CF) as opposed to the 1 CF per 20 mass of warships.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bif Smith [SMTP:bif@bifsmith.fsnet.co.uk]
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 7:52 AM
> 
> This is something that I have been thinking about since the FB design
> rules
> came out. The first is the crewing costs and therefore the running
costs
> of
> civilian ships and freighters. I may have missed something, but the
> crewing
> requirments of ships (all ships, not just millatary) is based on their
> hull
> size/mass. This should be altered to a lower figure for civilians of a
> mass
> figure plus something. What I`m trying to say is their should be some
> advantage (in crewing costs at least) to running large civilian ships.