Re: FT-sheilds

BIF wrote:

>What`s bugging me is the mass used for sheilds. A level 1 sheild is 5% 
>mass of the mounting ship, a level 2 10%. If a ship masses 90 mass, a 
>level 1 sheild is 5 mass, a level 2 9 mass. What is bugging me is that 
>wouldn`t twice the sheild have twice the mass? (IE, work out the sheild
as 
>5% ship mass times 2 instead of 10%?).

But the level-1 screen *isn't* 5 Mass - it is only 5% of 90 = 4.5 Mass.

The only reason why it *seems* to be "5" Mass is that FT doesn't deal in

fractional Mass points so you have to round it to the nearest integer...

/Oerjan
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