Mil vs. Civ was: Re: Tech Level Differences

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Ought also to have "military" and "civilian" eg FTL drives for merchants.
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FTII had this somewhat in hull builds; you could model it with a difference in
hull strengths between mil and civ within a 'race', I suppose. I'll
admit to being unclear on the trade-offs.

Weapons and/or defenses shouldn't necessarily be different, save that
only
the military gets to play with the BIG stuff. ;->= If I were pointing a
scenario, I suppose I'd GIVE points for cargo capacity, so that weapon loads
on civ ships end up costing more by normal cost plus loss of carrying. Corp
bean counters are going to be upset with smaller cargoes, after all.

FTL tends to be outside the FT game parameters, though you could argue longer
setup to jump, or turnaround after arrival. In a campaign game, civ FTL would
probably be represented by shorter hops, or less accurate arrivals, with
longer normal space transits if you accept you can't jump either in system or
REALLY close to a grav well.

Did I make sense this time? Been out of it for several days...

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> FTII had this somewhat in hull builds; you could model it with

You could do "fragile hull" easily enough and a merchant could buy Thrust 1
(or possibly "Thrust 0.5"), but there's no mechanism for differentiating
between Milspec and civilian FTL although Canon clearly states there is a
difference.

> Weapons and/or defenses shouldn't necessarily be different,

In Alarishi space, the Imperial Fleet requests that people
refrain from using Beam-3's or higher, or salvo missiles.  Some
people install them anyway. Jack Old Ron is an example, but he's noted as
being a little, um, emphatic about his privacy. Anyway, if you install them,
you're listed as a navigational hazard.

> FTL tends to be outside the FT game parameters, though you

all of the above, I imagine