From: Doug Evans <devans@n...>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 11:49:56 -0500
Subject: Re: [GZG] Multi-level rules sought. [TBC] [SEC=P] & FTverse colinies
Mainly, I argue on the basis of granularity; it's as easy to say that the dimples, in which that external craft nest, increase the bulk of the hull enough to call it the overhead in the rules. *shrug* JGH wrote on 05/02/2008 10:51:04 AM: > Plus the fact it makes external maintenance on said small craft a lot **** Parts of the colony size discussion happens fairly regularly; the possible population increase has been given some impressive analysis, and searching the archives is left to the reader. It's too embarassing for me to look at suggestions offered me that I failed to follow up sufficiently. http://lists.firedrake.org/gzg/ How this translates actual economies and fleets tends to be a bit more handwavium, and each player has free rein to push his own view. Before you get too excited in comparing a homegrown fleet to the canon ones, be sure you don't take the fleet books as being exhaustive as to numbers. Several places, old classes, variants, and new builds are eluded to. I always assumed the books were to be 'representative', and the full fleets could vary significantly from the totals you get working from JUST the lists. The_Beast