On 7/07/2011 06:09, Onno Meyer wrote:
According to 3E vehicles, the weight of both FTL sensors and FTL
commo (expect for short-range coms) is linear with range, so a
few big installations are superior to many little ones.
The TL14/TL15 ships I've been posting recently have ranges of
several lightyears, and that is against a standard SM+4 target.
The reason is to overcome the massive stealth penalties at high
TLs, especially if you assume that deceptive jammers, force
screen stealth, and conventional stealth stack.
I've never been terribly happy with the assumption that ability to see
through countermeasures and stealth is the same thing as the ability to
see distant targets (especially for active sensors). That aside, as all
FTL tech is very much TL^ with campaign-specific parameters, it's one of
those things that I think one is expected to tweak if the default
assumptions don't give the results you like.
Clearly, the 3e rules as written do not support limited FTL comms range
if the comms exist at all.
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