RE: FT-Warp point/asteroid forts

It's easier to just build them as a normal ship.
FT is so abstract that it works the same.

Brendan
'Neath Southern Skies

> -----Original Message-----
> From: david smith [mailto:bifsmith207@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 11:13 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: FT-Warp point/asteroid forts
> 
> 
> Here's a quick idea I had for building a tough asteroid fort 
> for use in warp 
> point defenses. This is very much a work in progress at the 
> moment, so any 
> criticism is OK. :-)
> 
> 1- chose the mass of the asteroid (e.g.-1000 mass)
> 2-Chose the mass of the facilities to be built inside the 
> asteroid (basic 
> hull e.g.-200)
> Chose how far inside the asteroid these bits will be buried 
> (or how many 
> layers of armour, as in PH layered armour).
> 
> A asteroid gains it`s armour for free from the rock it is 
> buried inside, but 
> the deeper it`s buried, the more it costs. For every level of 
> armour, the 
> base cost of the hull is +x1 (ie- a 4 level armour has a base 
> cost of x6). 
> Using rock does have the disadvantage of that the rock itself 
> isn`t as good 
> as man made armour, so you only get 50% of the armour value 
> of the rock (in 
> the example i started with, that means a 1000 mass asteroid 
> with a 200 mass 
> construction inside has only(!) 400 armour).
> 
> Next you need to add a station keeping drive and power plant. 
> For these I 
> use a mass of 2% of the TOTAL asteroid (e.g.- 20 mass), but 
> this comes from 
> the total of the interior construction. For shields, the 
> TOTAL mass of the 
> asteroid is used again (at normal rates, so for the example 
> above, it would 
> require a mass of 100 for a level 2 shield).
> 
> If you look at the example above I have been hinting at, you 
> would have a 
> asteroid fort of a mass of 1000, with 400 armour points in 4 
> levels, with a 
> level 2 shield, costing 940 point without weapons and only 80 
> mass left free 
> for weapons. Items like shields/weapons etc are all normal cost/mass, 
> because you have already paid for the cost of burying them.
> 
> BIF
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