Thougth's on Fighters and PDAF...

Option 1: Reduce the mass and points cost of ADFC to 1 mass and 4 points.
Design real escorts, not the jokes in the fleet book.

Example: NAC Furrious Escort Cruiser has 1 ADFC and 3 PD's. That's a
joke at area defense.  Re-Design would replace the class 3 beam with 1
class 2 beam, 1 ADFC, and 1 PD. Replace the Pulse Tropedoe with 4 PD's. You
now have a ship with 2 ADFC's, 9 PD's, and 3 class 2 beams. That's the
firepower of a destroyer, and 3x the PD's of the orginal. That will cause
fighters to think.

Basic rule for "real" escorts is that they have the weapons mass of a ship two
class smaller, and tons of PD's and ADFC's.

Option 2: Remove ADFC's from the game. Replace them with 1 FC and 1 PD on
existing designs. Allow all ships to use FC's to either engage ships or
fighters defensively. Basically, a ship can use a FC to shoot at one fighter
group, or one missile salvo, or one ship. This with significantly increase
fleet defenses.

> At 9:53 AM -0400 5/9/02, Imre A. Szabo wrote:

Its my opinion that PDS and Beam batteries ought to have different kinds of
fire control systems. Unless of course the concept of the GZG universe is that
Bill Gates has taken over all and everything on the ships is handled by one
NT2400 system.

> On 9-May-02 at 11:09, Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com) wrote:

> Its my opinion that PDS and Beam batteries ought to have different

Gives all new meaning to "Blue Screen of Death."

Didn't they try to run a destroyer on NT? I know I wouldn't be comfortable
with an OS that has millions of lines of code as the platform contolling my
offense and defense.