Systems

8 posts ยท Jan 18 1998 to Jan 20 1998

From: Donald Hosford <hosford.donald@a...>

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 01:08:51 -0800

Subject: Systems

One thing I have FINALLY noticed, is in the More Thrust book. There is
somethings missing! I haven't gotten around to studying those ship diagrams
until now...

On page 23, the ship diagrams, What is the circle with the black triangle
supposed to represent? It is found in the Strikeboat, and the Lancer. The
other symbol is found on the Privateer and Needle Cruiser ships. It looks like
a filled in circle with a black line sticking out.

I have flipped through both books without success. They only appear on the
ship diagrams mentioned.

Suggestion: In ALL future versions of the game, please provide a "Master
Symbol Chart" That listed every symbol ever used.

Thanks

From: Donald Hosford <hosford.donald@a...>

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 03:38:32 -0800

Subject: Re: Systems

> Thomas Corcoran wrote:

Thanks all who commented. I have seen my error (In my furious
flipping, a small table -- like on page 30 -- can blur past without
being seen...)

Gosh that was a fast response! I only posted the question an HOUR ago, and
here are three answers! I love this list!

From: kx.henderson@q... (Kelvin)

Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 15:23:45 +1000 (EST)

Subject: Re: Systems

> One thing I have FINALLY noticed, is in the More Thrust book. There is

Not sure about this one off hand. I forget. It could be a Submunition Pack now
that I think about it. Have a look in the Full Thrust rulebook in the section
on designing your own ships. There is a frame in there that explains the mass
and points cost with the symbol drawn next to it.

> The other symbol is found on the Privateer and Needle Cruiser ships.

That one's easy! That's a needle beam!

> I have flipped through both books without success. They only appear on

Nope. The symbols for More Thrust are printed next to the system's description
and in Full Thrust, there is that frame I mentioned above in the Ship Design
section.

> Suggestion: In ALL future versions of the game, please provide a

This is a good idea. Like the one printed in the EFSB above the Minbari War
Cruiser.

From: Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@t...>

Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 06:54:18 +0100

Subject: Re: Systems

> Donald wrote:

> One thing I have FINALLY noticed, is in the More Thrust book. There

Nope.

> On page 23, the ship diagrams,

> It looks like a filled in circle with a black line sticking out.

Nope. Look at the table "Symbols for Weapons from Advanced Rules", FT
p.30.
The circle with the black triangle is a SubMunition Pack and the black circle
with line is a Needle Beam.

Regards,

From: Thomas Corcoran <tomnaro@c...>

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 22:15:46 -0800

Subject: Re: Systems

> Donald Hosford wrote:

The circle and triangle combo is a Submunitions Pack. The filled circle with
the line is a Needle Beam.

Both weapons are facing specific and should point toward the proper firing
arc.

The symbols appear on page 30 of FT under Advanced Ship Design.

Someone generated a master symbol list a while back and put it on a website,
but I don't remember the URL. Hopefully someone on the list has a copy. (I use
a CAD prog to draw my ships and haven't done all the symbols, yet.)

From: Samuel Reynolds <reynol@p...>

Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:49:24 -0700

Subject: Re: Systems

> Donald Hosford wrote:

That was me. It's in Adobe Illustrator format (Mac and Windows) and EPS.

From: Brian Bell <bkb@b...>

Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 09:41:09 -0800

Subject: Re: Systems

I have also posted a comprehensive list of symbols, ranges, damage, etc on the
following web page:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pdga6560/ftweapt.html

From: Thomas Heaney <Thomas@k...>

Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 19:41:11 +0000

Subject: Re: Systems

In article <34C1C6A3.30@acd.net>, Donald Hosford <Hosford.donald@acd.net>
writes
> Suggestion: In ALL future versions of the game, please provide a

On my FT page I have a list of weapons and their symbols in Word for Windows 6
format at

http://www.kontos.demon.co.uk/ft/ftnf.htm

Brian Bell also has an HTML chart on his page at

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pdga6560/

Regards