Burst Pods

I tried writing this earlier but netscape crashed and the message never
actually got sent, so here's most of what I originally said.

I'm still rattling the burst pod idea around in my head. I don't like the idea
of using more then 1 biomass for a pod, but I can't see any other way of
balancing it.

The Phalon PBLs are: Size Mass Cost 1 5 15 2 10 30 3 15 45 4 20 60 5 25 75

Two leading "costs" for the burst pod are:

Size Biomass Energy 1 2 10 2 4 20 3 8 40 4 16 80

Size Biomass Energy 1 3 12 2 6 18 3 9 27 4 12 36 5 15 45

The other alternative is to limit the burst pods to a class 1 PB only.
I'm sorta leaning towards that idea. I'd probably make it 2/10 but 3/12
is probably better

Burst Pods:
* requires X biomass/Y energy
* max range 24mu within launcher's arc * acts as Phalon PB

G'day,

> The other alternative is to limit the

This is probably easier to do and you could get the "effect" of heavy PBs in
fire from big SV by overlapping the burst pods.

Just a thought

> Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

> > The other alternative is to limit the

I was having the same one. Mostly the idea of pumping that much biomass
through a pod launchers irks me wrong.

So I'm thinking 2 biomass/10-15 power for a class 1 PB.

Phalong PB: 5 mass / 15 cost

The big difference is a pod launcher has 1/3 the arch and 6mu less range
but can fire twice as much.