Re: What, Did Everyone Hate It?

Greetings,

In our last episode, Leroy Van Camp III said:
>> 	Hey, _one_ is more than I got for my helm design meta-system!
>
>    Hmm, didn't see that one.  Is it on your site?

	Nope.  It never went past the alpha stage since feedback from
the list was so... non-existant. :)

>> 	I only had a chance to skim through it, but it looked good.
>> I especially like the separation of Hull Points and Tonnage, though
>> I'm still trying to decide what that means in the "reality".
>
>    Not sure what ya' mean here.

	Wow, I really *wasn't* making sense their... :)  What I meant was
that I havn't decided -- for myself -- what AC and HP really mean.  By
lowering the AC of a ship, you're making it tougher because it becomes
harder to hit.  By adding HP to a ship, you're making it tougher because
it becomes harder to damage.  It seems like generic "toughness" could
be measured in either better AC or more HP.  Your system took the "more
HP" approach, while the boxed set seems to have taken the "better AC"
approach, as shown by the dragonfly and damselfly.  In the end, I havn't
figured out which is better.

	Does that make sense?

-Static

(Trying not to get into a "what are HP anyway?" discussion.  At least not
on the list... (: )

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