Re: Ancients and Combat
My understanding of ship combat is that no matter the state of your ships supplies when you enter combat you actually start combat with full supplies based on the supply capacity of the ship.
Would it not be more balanced if the ancients i.e. the Shadows had a heavy power drain if using their "big guns".
e.g. Shadow Cruiser has 3000 supplies. Its "slicer beam" uses 300 supplies each slice, so it can only fire 10 times before it has to quit combat and run. This would balance the battle when engaging a fleet of Destroyers by not allowing one ship to wipe out a group of Capital Ships.
The Shadows from the series always seemed to engage from a position of advantage and hit hard and then vanish. We can infer that the Slicer beam had a great drain on the stored bio energy of the living ship and that a sustained engagement was out of the question?
Re: Organics.
I notice that Life Support (for Troop/Fighters) and Crew Quarters have no Organics cost. This might result in a maintenance increase if they had? Or have you already said that?
