I'm for returning to this, on a less frenetic pace than before. RL has kept me
way behind on updating the WDA. Come January, when the current crunch ends,
I'll be more able to keep up. WOTM (or 'as it comes up') sounds like a decent
pace to me. I think there was a bit of overload toward the latter half of the
WOTW discussions.
On my master of the WDA, the GCFC costs 6 pts. Perhaps it's an update I
haven't had the chance to put up yet. Perhaps it should have the additional
restriction of only 1 per ship, PSB being it has to be mounted just fore of
the main drives. But yes, I don't care for the aft fire restrictions, though I
understand why they are there from the game mechanic point of view.
On or about Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:07:47AM -0500, Noam Izenberg typed:
> On my master of the WDA, the GCFC costs 6 pts. Perhaps it's an update I
> haven't had the chance to put up yet. Perhaps it should have the
> fire restrictions, though I understand why they are there from the game
> mechanic point of view.
How much of a difference would it make? How often is rear-arc fire
relevant? Most of the current ships don't have very much bearing into
the AP/AS arcs, which are the closest analogues; would it be worth
having a GCFC for any ships not built especially to take advantage of
it, perhaps with a significant number of all-arc weapons? (I suspect
not.)
Given a substantial amount of new construction, where would it be useful? In
large ships facing more manoeuvreable
(coughcoughKra'Vakcough) opponents, maybe, but the mass of multi-arc
beams is pretty major already; and it's pretty much useless on a beam-1,
because of the range addition.
I'm afraid I can't see an advantage to this.