RE: Kinetic Shields

The same way you make armor cost more when it is hit by
"screen-skippers"
than it does when it is hit by beams. Unless you can explain how this
was
done, you must also state that armor is out-of-balance and should be
fixed.
And if K-Guns are balanced with P-Torps, how do you make armor cost more
aginst P-Torps than against K-Guns (an "armor skipping" weapon)?

Armor is the precident in FT for equal protection from damage. The only
difference (and I admit it is large) is that shields would renew each
turn.
Thus you have to make the protection to mass/cost of the shields less
that
that of armor (or make it have less covererage - i.e. directional). I
think
that it would balance somewhere in the range of 2-3 mass per point of
protection.

I am unsure that your statement of P-Torp/K-Gun equality holds true at
higher classes of K-Guns (especially against an armored opponent). I
would
love to see the numbers. Intuition would indicate that in a comparison
of 1
Class-4 K-Guns vs 2 P-Torps (both 8 mass), the 2 P-Torps would have a
slightly better chance to hit, but the K-Gun would provide consistatly
greater damage per hit. Against an unarmored opponent (screened or
unscreened), the damage should be close to equal. Against an amored
opponent, the K-Gun would provide consistantly greater damage. The
greater
the amount of armor, the larger the difference between the K-Gun and
P-Torp.

Submitted with respect,

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Brian Bell
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oerjan Ohlson [SMTP:oerjan.ohlson@telia.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 3:42 PM
> To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject:	Re: Kinetic Shields
> 
> Jaime Tiempo wrote:
> 
> > > >You just increase the cost propotionally.
> > >
> > > You have to increase the cost of *all screen-degraded weapons* in
> > > proportion to their normal degrading by screens for this to
work...
> which
> > > means that ithe basic FT screens become unbalanced instead :-/
> >
> >Not of the weapons, the kinetic screen
> 
> How do you make the kinetic screen cost more when it is hit by 
> "screen-skippers" than it does when it is hit by beams...?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Oerjan
> oerjan.ohlson@telia.com
> 
> "Life is like a sewer.
>   What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
> -Hen3ry