Rob Dean:
>I tend to agree with Scott on this. In "reality" there might be some
>limit, but the odds seem to be against it being significant at the
>level of detail that I run this game at. In addition, if we are to
>consider that sort of limit, perhaps it would be time to rehash the
>maximum weapon mount limits? After all, you can pack more power
>plant into a SDB (for example) than would ever be needed to run all
>of its weapons allowable under the current rules. Why not add more
>turrets?
I've been wanting to rehash the weapon limits since the game first
appeared, since the existing limits are the one of the main reasons
piracy is unworkable: a merchant ship can be armed as heavily as a
similar-sized pirate for a sacrifice of 1-2% of cargo capacity, so why
NOT?
2300AD imposes limits on weapons based entirely on surface area of the
ship (and if a 100T ship can mount all the sensors it needs, then it can
mount all the lasers it needs too. Lasers are smaller than
radio-telescopes). So why not junk the limits on weaponry, and let you
put on as much weaponry as your ship can hold? So what if a 400T SDB
mounts 30 triple laser turrets? It'll mean that there is a difference
between warships and merchants, (and not the idiotic "agility/maneuver"
limit).
BTW, has anyone besides me noticed that "agility" (by any definition
ever given) is completely meaningless in Traveller (all incarnations)?
If your ship can pull 6Gs, and is one light second from whoever is
shooting at it (long range), then your ship can shift from it's
predicted position by no more than 118 meters during the detection
cycle? And most warships are bigger than that (anything over 63,000T
MUST be bigger, and anything under it that isn't a sphere is probably
bigger)
And if you are in at 50,000Km, then your ship can shift from it's
predicted position by only 6.5 meters during the detection cycle.
SO how meaningful can "agility" be?
Later...
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