So the basic military reason you don't want to under power your vessel is
that your enemy 'will' eventually figure it out and exploit it.
Force you to put power into A then while your doing that exploit the fact
you don't have power to B.
Don't misunderstand me from a real world perspective it makes sense that
under powered designs get made however I think military procurement offices
would rather have a fully powered vessel vs an under powered one. And there
are plenty of reasons under powered designed actually get build and used
but at the end of the day it going to be bad for the folks using them.
This is purely from a metagame view of coarse.
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:12 AM, Todd Kes <> wrote:
> **
>
>
> I'd see the main advantage is where you design a ship so it powers what
> you think you'll need, not everything at once. I.e. if the enemy deploys
> sandcaster shots, you shift power from the lasers to Meson guns.
>
> If the enemy starts tossing missiles like crazy, you shift power to the
> rapid-fire turrets rather than the heavy turrets. If they are only tossing
> a few, you don't have to divert as much.
>
> By reducing the necessary power plant size, you can fit in more equipment
> in the same hull, whether this is fuel, personnel (for damage
> control/marines), ammunition, more weapons, etc.
>
> I.e. try designing two ships, both 20,000 tons, with different types of
> weapons, but as much else being identical. For one ship you design the main
> reactor to fire everything, and the second you design the reactor to power
> one of the two types. I'm curious about the results now, myself.
>
> Todd Kes
>
> --- On Thu, 6/28/12, wrote:
> > Nonetheless, your analogy is correct in the way that could
> > work in
> > Traveller, if you wanted to build your ship that way.
> >
> > Good luck selling the B5 main gun power-outage to Traveller
> > designers,
> > though. But it is a little like battleship main gun
> > overpressure lighting
> > off the float planes and starting fires on the fantail.
> >
> > Like you, I think it could be fun, for people who enjoy
> > playing that way.
> >
> > Dave
>
>
--
If the world was fair then every bad thing that has ever happened to you
would have been deserved.
that your enemy 'will' eventually figure it out and exploit it.
Force you to put power into A then while your doing that exploit the fact
you don't have power to B.
Don't misunderstand me from a real world perspective it makes sense that
under powered designs get made however I think military procurement offices
would rather have a fully powered vessel vs an under powered one. And there
are plenty of reasons under powered designed actually get build and used
but at the end of the day it going to be bad for the folks using them.
This is purely from a metagame view of coarse.
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:12 AM, Todd Kes <> wrote:
> **
>
>
> I'd see the main advantage is where you design a ship so it powers what
> you think you'll need, not everything at once. I.e. if the enemy deploys
> sandcaster shots, you shift power from the lasers to Meson guns.
>
> If the enemy starts tossing missiles like crazy, you shift power to the
> rapid-fire turrets rather than the heavy turrets. If they are only tossing
> a few, you don't have to divert as much.
>
> By reducing the necessary power plant size, you can fit in more equipment
> in the same hull, whether this is fuel, personnel (for damage
> control/marines), ammunition, more weapons, etc.
>
> I.e. try designing two ships, both 20,000 tons, with different types of
> weapons, but as much else being identical. For one ship you design the main
> reactor to fire everything, and the second you design the reactor to power
> one of the two types. I'm curious about the results now, myself.
>
> Todd Kes
>
> --- On Thu, 6/28/12, wrote:
> > Nonetheless, your analogy is correct in the way that could
> > work in
> > Traveller, if you wanted to build your ship that way.
> >
> > Good luck selling the B5 main gun power-outage to Traveller
> > designers,
> > though. But it is a little like battleship main gun
> > overpressure lighting
> > off the float planes and starting fires on the fantail.
> >
> > Like you, I think it could be fun, for people who enjoy
> > playing that way.
> >
> > Dave
>
>
--
If the world was fair then every bad thing that has ever happened to you
would have been deserved.