Galactic Formula Racing Standards (fwd)

For the person asking about FT racing - here's Jaime's very useable
Savasku racing construct rules!

Highly modified from stock FT all the way through.

We played mostly with light ships, big powerplants but low weaponry. It
kept the events as races, rather than slugfests. And an incredible
amount
of fun, especially in vector movement. These S'V racing constructs have
a
LOT of power, but the temptation to send them screaming down the track
is
tempered by the fact that you have to get around the next turn!

Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -
- http://wind.prohosting.com/~warbard/games.html -

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:12:38 -0700
From: Jaime Tiampo <fugu@spikyfishthing.com>
Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Cc: vic-gzg-l@spikyfishthing.com
Subject: Galactic Formula Racing Standards

We had yet another test game of FT racing last night with 2 ypes of
ships, human and modified SV tech. The two groups were mostly separated
so they didn't interact with one another.

On thing that came out of the race was that power for SV weapons would
have to be modified so it wasn't as deadly at close range but also had a
longer range. The modification we made was to make the power
requirements 2 per range band per deam die. The range bands are being
kept to 3". 

We're using a max ship size of 35 mass.

Construction and System Rules:

Using Sa'Vasku constuction rules with following modifications:

1) No FTL
2) No Drone wombs
3) No Pod Launchers
4) Screen nodes
	- minimum 2 mass
	- 3 arcs of coverage
	- act as class 2 screens and can take 2 threshold checks loosing
one
lever per failure
5) Cortex nodes
	- now are used together like firecon/bridge/damage repair
control
	(each cortex allows you one action: manuever, fire at one
targer,
attempt repair one system)
6) Life support listed as core system same as Human Tech 
	- require 3 power for repair roll
7) Main drive
	- No longer advanced
8) Stinger nodes
	- range bands are 3"
	- power requirements are 2 x rangeband per die
	- can take 2 threshold checks, doubling power requirements per
die like
main drive damage
9) Repair
	- require cortex node assigned to repair
	- power requirements same as standard SV rules
	- no biomass required

Jaime