Yes, I developed a system kind of like that for Proportions mod, although the math is a little more complicated there. In general though yes, it'd be good for balance to continue defense penaties based on size through the BC->DN sizes which currently have zero-modifiers.
PvK
P.S. I don't know though that I think Q Reactors are
unbalanced. I think they are just unpleasant (for my own tastes as a player) because they are so cheap that once they're developed, they practically remove the issue of supply from the game, which I think is less fun/interesting. Is the AI really hurt by the extra cost of putting them on everything? Surely it benefits a lot from having them, since it won't be stupidly running out of supplies like it often does.
PvK
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Originally posted by Pax:
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Originally posted by LGM:
Make Ship defense penalties graduated: Cruisers 0%, Battle Cruisers 10%, Battleships 20%, Dreadnaughts 30%, Baseships 40%.
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The best thing, IMO, is what I've done with Small Ships -- pick a mass that gets a 0% defense bonus/penalty -- let's say the Light Cruiser, at 400kT. Then decide what interfal of mass (50kT works) gets what % ECM modifier (5% or 10% might work).
So a 300kT Destroyer would get a +10% or +20% ECM bonus; a 500kT Cruiser would get -10% or -20%.
At the extreme ends, the Escort (150kT ... three mass incremetns underweight) gets a +15% to +30% defense bonus; the Dreadnought, at 1000kT, is 600kT "overweight", earnign it a -60% or -120% defense penalty, and the Baseship (at 1500kT) is 500kT evewn MORE overweight, giving it a -110% or -220% defense penalty.
The benefits of this are that it's intuitive and follows a pattern. The actual modifier per mass-increment can be altered for certain classes of ship (i.e., all transports may have a worse ECM modifier ... all carriers may have a better ECMmodifier than their mass might otherwise indicate ... etc).
[ July 31, 2003, 22:44: Message edited by: PvK ]