From: Edward Lipsett <translation@i...>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:37:29 +0900
Subject: "Average" FT ship size?
Does anyone have any data on what an "average" ship costs in FT? I am trying to set up some campaign rules, and it would be nice if an "average" cost coulid be used to judge roughly how many ships a player should be able to build (except the stomp'em gang, of course...) Thanx
From: Robertson, Brendan <Brendan.Robertson@d...>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:19:18 +1100
Subject: RE: "Average" FT ship size?
500 points per turn seems about right to replace fleet losses, if combat can occur every turn. Downgrade this appropriate if the average combat is further apart. Neath Southern Skies - http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~denian/ [mkw] Admiral Peter Rollins; Task Force Zulu [pirates] Prince Rupert Raspberry; Base Commander > -----Original Message-----
From: Tony Francis <tony.francis@k...>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:41:29 +0000
Subject: Re: "Average" FT ship size?
Following a quick glance through my ship designs, it seems that an FB ship costs on average about 3.3 to 3.5 points per mass (this is for a warship, merchants are cheaper). So the 500 points per turn suggested by someone would buy you around 150 mass of ship (ie one dreadnought, a BB and a cruiser, five DDs etc)
From: Tom McCarthy <tmcarth@f...>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 08:44:23 -0500
Subject: Re: "Average" FT ship size?
Well, I usually start with the assumption that ships cost 3.5 points per MASS. So, I figure 7000 points buys about 2000 MASS. Then I figure my fleet out from that based on MASSes of the different classes (2x200, 4x150, 3x100, 5x80, 5x60). I find players don't maintain set proportions of different sized ships, so this is how I work it.