As of right now, I am freezing the point formula unless there's a huge outcry.

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Okay, Zerloon has me inspired today.

I rewrote the point formula. Well, at least I revised it. The basic idea is still there, square root of Orat * Drat but there's a significant change to commanders.

I assume and hope there will be questions. I can justify all the values mathematically, and for most I have in another post, but if you want to see my calculations, I will, of course post them for you to investigate. Please do check me out, especially you statisticians out there, I am not a professional mathematician so my calculations need as much help as they can get.

[size=200]Unit Cost[/size]

[size=134]Combat Value [/size]
(ORat * DRat * SpecialMultiplier)^0.5 ** Change back to ^0.5 **

[size=134]SpecialsProduct[/size]
Product of all Specials Multipliers

[size=134]ORat[/size]
(Movement + 1) * MeleeMultiplier + (RangedMultipler * Range ^ 1.25)

[size=134]DRat[/size]
DefenseMultiplier * Wds * MoraleMultiplier

[size=134]SpecialMultiplier[/size]
MagicMultiplier * QtyMagicDice * SpecialsProduct * UnitTypeMultiplier

The tables are as follows:

[size=134]Specials Multipliers [/size]
same as FtM I, we'll deal with those if we see huge disparities in practice. I can't say as I've ever seen one that really was too far off.

[size=134]Multipliers[/size]
MeleeMultiplier

1d4     1.3       
1d6     1.5       
1d8     2.0       
1d10    2.5       
1d12    3.0       
2d4     2.0       
2d6     3.0       
2d8     4.0                                               
2d10    5.0                                               
2d12    6.0                                               
3d4     4.0                                               
3d6     6.0                                               
3d8     8.0                                               
3d10   10.0                                               
3d12   12.0                                               

RangedMultipler

1d4     0.65     
1d6     0.75     
1d8     1.0     
1d10    1.25   
1d12    1.5     
2d4     1.0     
2d6     3.0     
2d8     4.0     
2d10    5.0     
2d12    6.0     
3d4     4.0     
3d6     6.0     
3d8     8.0     
3d10   10.0     
3d12   12.0     

UnitTypeMultiplier   

Artillery        1.25
Cavalry          2.00
Infantry         1.00
Monster Size 1   1.00
Monster Size 2+  1.25
Personality      1.00

DefenseMultiplier

    0      1     
    1      7     
    2     15     
    3     25     
    4     50     
    5    100     
    6    200     

  MoraleMultiplier  *** Significant Change here ***

     1+  10         
     2+   9         
     3+   8         
     4+   7         
     5+   6         
     6+   5                       
     7+   4                       
     8+   3                       
     9+   2                       
    10+   1                       

I flattened the curve here because I felt like there wasn't enough of a difference between a 3+ and a 7+.

MagicMultiplier
(1 + MagicRange) * MagicValue

MagicValue
   d4   3.75   
   d6   5.25   
   d8   6.75   
  d10   8.25   
  d12   9.75   

[size=200]Command[/size] *** Significant change here ***
I changed it back the the old way, again, but made Movement part of the formula.

CmdPointValue
CmdMultipler ^ NumberCmdDice * (CmdRange * (CmdRange + Movement)) + 1

CmdMultipler
d4    2.5
d6    3.5
d8    4.5
d10    5.5
d12    6.5

20" Pill bug

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod

When I read Dan's post earlier about "where does it go next" I considered it heavily.  Many days of solemn meditation followed. I came to this conclusion:

[size=134]There is room in the universe for Starmada Sourcebooks.[/size]

Several other throughts occurred to me, not least among them was "will Rachel Weisz ever make another movie".  However, three main points filtered just below the Rachel question, they are:

1) Is there enough interest to fund this project?
2) Where does the source come from to do this?
3) Do I have enough time to lead such a project?

I think I know the answers, and here they are:

1) I'll leave the first up to all y'all (in the form of a poll).
2) I think we ask permission to use ships from the Bourbaki Basin.
3) Probably not, but that never stopped me before.

Also, if there are books to be published, how many races in each, do we develop an entire universe of source material or just share our ship designs? Other questions will occur, but these are just off the top of my head for now.

Thoughts?

(oh yeah, Rachel Weisz is in the process of six(!) movies planned for 07/08 yay!)