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Will that not create a situation where bigger is almost always better (in all situations unless background materiel strongly emphasizes the lighter craft)? Using your baseline state I could field one heavy fighter for every two light fighters, and while dedicated missions balances things somewhat, ...

Another option is to have Different END costs for different actions. ie assigned to local squadron (defensive) cost : 1 fights in AF combat cost: 2 fights in AS combat cost 4 assigned in opponents squadron (offensive) cost:2 (you could decrease AS/AF/DV for every minus END (similiar to ship OOS) or ...

I am waiting one initial purchase currently..

We probably will not be on a schedule per se(for software change reasons).

but I am hoping to get to 1/week or faster..

Mike

One option is to use the base methodology.. take damage in 25% portions.. 1/2 DV = 3/4 capability (DV at FULL ?) DV = 1/2 capability (DV at 3/4?) 1.5 DV =1/4 capability ( DV = 1/2 DV ?) (bases do not change DV) but I think that the firepower required to kill a crippled target is NOT equal to amount ...

Changes..

Fleets and Squadrons can now be renamed on the reorg page.

Hmmmmm, I wanted to keep the facilities (or something like it) because merely having facilities will give players incentive to use them each turn (otherwise the maintenance cost is wasted EP) but of course mounting maintenance costs will give some incentive to only carry the facilities that they ne...

That could work... I was trying to create a situation where it was better to have research stations out on the frontier (which makes them more vulnerable to industrial espionage/sabotage - which I was going to restrict to targeting research facilities) which seems more in keeping with a lot of sci-...

What about taking away tech research as a expense per se and creating facilities that produce tech investment
ie
Facility Cost 4 maint 2 produces 2 Tech / turn
Mega Facility Cost 20 Maint 4 produces 5 Tech/turn

this will prevent players from yo-yoing research..

Mike

Mark emailed me his picks.
He takes the Lorans..

andstrauss wrote:I'll pick the Senorians.

Are we using The Menagerie?

Cheers,

No just the CG.

Ok, I need race choices from the CG (ie Brindaki, Jains, Kili, Lorans, Senorians, or Tirelons).. and starting location choices (Noj,Peraxda,or Orson Ceti). andstrauss will pick one (race or planet) then MarkG88 will pick one (race or planet) then Albertoc will pick one (race or planet) then Albertoc...

Not a member is fine..

That makes three..

Cool..

I hope to have things ready soon(next couple of days) and will send out links/user names/passwords..

Mike

The program is working great! I used it several times this last weekend. I hope that next on the to do list are minefields and bases. Cheers, Mines can be partially modeled by DV 1, AS 0, AF 0 ships .. this gets the damage soak but not the formation bonus stuff.. Sorry that is probably not going to...

I would like to ask for three players to test a web based version of VBAM. The code at this point is very rough and the game will probably have to be "reset" numerous times..

We will be playing the three player Free for All (Scenario 3 in the book)


Thanks

Mike Riddle

Tool updated again.. (just cosmetic changes..) per Garth's request... Breaks in output between each turn and between each squadron It is slightly easier for me in one text box, but it has been suggested to split into 3. One for each side and 1 for the battle settings.. Would it be easier for the use...