Re: FT-Shiva option/starfire designs

Roger Books wrote:

>Personally I don't like the command data link, I think ADFC is more
>flexible and useful.  It doesn't even "feel" right to me from
>a current capability level.  The only reason it is in the books is
>because it is part of Starfire.

You got that backwards, I'm afraid. Command datalink is in Starfire
because 
it is in the books - Crusade and Insurrection were written at the same
time 
as Starfire 3rd edition/Imperial Starfire, and Weber put a lot of tech
toys 
into the game which do make good plot engines for the novels but are
either 
unplayable or horribly unbalanced in the game.

Later,

Oerjan
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