Re: Alternate Pulsers and Classed Pulse Torps and other items

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>On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Tom B <kaladorn@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  Item II)
>>  Classed PT Launcher from the WDA (top item)
>>  http://nift.firedrake.org/weapons/WDA-Torps.htm
>>
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>Noam will be pleased someone is looking/using the page.  :-)
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>
>>
>>  Item IV)
>>  Core Systems
>>
>>  Hugh, did I miss something on core systems?
>>  3 systems, check on the first threshold on a 6, second on a 5, etc.
>>  I expect to lose (statistically):
>>  First threshold: 0.50 core systems
>>  Second threshold: 1.00 core systems
>>  Third threshold: 1.5 core systems
>>  Fourth threshold: 2.0 core systems
>>
>>  So, I could well lose a core that kills my ship 50% of the time on
the
>>  first threshold. On the second, I am likely to take a core. Not sure
>>  how that translates to not 'rare' in your mind (though I could have
>>  missed something).
>>
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>IIRC core systems are not hit on the first threshold check, but on the
>second. So would/should be more rare.
>
>I could be recalling incorrectly, though.
>
>Not that I use the core systems as described in FT2.5. I have used
>substitute core systems that a friend of mine came up with WAY back
when
>FT2.5 was being first worked on. Said core hits were less catastrophic
than
>the FT ones, but crippled you in different ways that you had to figure
out
>how to overcome (e.g., a ship communications hit meant you had to plot
two
>turns in advance)
>
>Mk

Sounds useful, Indy - could you post a copy of what you use, please?

Jon (GZG)