Full Thrust Campaigning

Hello All,

Our group has been playing Full Thrust for about a year now and think the game
is excellent. One of our goals as a group was to start a Full Thrust campaign
game with a judge. Things we were interested in
'simulating' include, Military and Non-Military (Infrastructure)
development.
Civilizations start with low-tech stuff and gradually acquire new tech
as the game continues. So, the first thing we did was try and expand the
technologies available in Full Thrust and order them in some sort of
technology tree (organized by category).

Well, we're about ready to begin playtesting our campaign rules and I was
wondering if anyone out there tried something similar yet for Full Thrust. A
few examples of technologies we added are different types of screening
systems. Full Thrust gives you Screens to stop Beam weapons but there's
nothing to stop Wave Gun, Nova Cannon and Pulse Torpedo weapons. We thought it
would be interesting to add a system that would. We called the new 'Screens',
Shields. Did the same thing for projectile technology (railguns, scatterguns)
and called them Deflectors.

Has anyone out there done something like this? If so, how successful has it
been? I have a list of systems we added and most of them have been heavily
playtested. I also did an indepth analyses of the performance of each weapon
(statistically). I must admit, I borrowed heavily from this mailgroup. Alot of
you have some really great ideas and I couldn't resist using them. I'd be
willing to flesh out some of the things we're doing in our local group and put
them here if people are interested.

Pete

Sure. I'd love to see what you've got.

Later,

I'd like to see those as well. I've been racking my brains in the little free
time I have to come up with some ideas on this.