Captain Kwok's Space Empires Nova

GuyOfDoom · #1 February 29th, 2008, 02:32 PM

Engine wear seems like an interesting concept, but just adds needless complication when you already have the movement, capacity and supply concerns.

Leternel · #2 February 29th, 2008, 06:37 PM

As a variante , I think "engines-pack structuration", you can consider that placing the engine to have all the output gas/matter/whatever together can be used as a massive afterburner...
this can be a good replacement for solar sail, which normally is dependend of solar wind

Suicide Junkie · #3 February 29th, 2008, 07:05 PM

Simply put the emergency propulsion ability ON the engines, like I did for grit econ.

narf poit chez BOOM · #4 February 29th, 2008, 09:08 PM

Call them ramscoops.

Captain Kwok · #5 March 1st, 2008, 04:04 PM

I like the idea of putting them on the engines, but do you have to make so that the emergency points gained outweigh the movement lost from the engine being damaged?

Suicide Junkie · #6 March 1st, 2008, 07:24 PM

If you've got a QNP system, you don't have to worry...
It will simply be a question of whether your ship is big enough that the loss of one engine (which may be less than one move point) is worth the bonus move.