[Growltigger]

Great, I knew that there was something in the rules about non-shield damage only incurring the non-interdiction field penalty.

This brings back memories.

Oh, I remember what it was, I used to play SF against one of those people who never enter into the spirit of the game, but play the game to a point of principle tighter than a gnat's chuffer in accordance with the rules. For me, the majesty of Starfire was designing your own ships, naming them, building and empire and then the excitement of interstellar wars, where the other side never knew what you were doing! With a good space marshall (and ours was good), the nervousness of what ever warp tranit would bring was just delightful.

I would get excited when one of my Agamemnon class cruisers defeated one of his Kalbacun class cruisers, I would be happy as a ferret if he defeated me in a battle. I could picture the firestorm raging between battlelines, the myriad explosions in the dark of space etc etc etc

He, on the other hand, liked to quote rules, he just wanted to win. I never knew about the interdiction field until he quoted it at me the little sod. So hey ho, the next thing I am facing are missiles which home on to your engines and blow them up.

The next thing this little turd pulls out of the tech tree (and I still dont know where it came from) was some damn missile that causes your shields to collapse so, not only are your capital ships sitting ducks with no engines, but they have no shields, and hey ho, any nuke is going to waste them!!??!

Still, I managed to beat the little swine at the Battle of Deneb.

Back to reality, glad this got sorted. Wubbles, I think you just get on with the beta. There is going to be quite a lot coming out of the testing that will mean to you need to tweak it. Stick to canon as much as you can, and if you cant, so be it.