• Registered: 2005-06-15
  • Posts: 94

Topic: extended fire arcs

You don't get any discount for using overlapping firearcs, right?

There is an example in the book, and it says you just add the number of arcs.  In that example,  you really get the C arc and half of J.

I'd guess this just didn't seem like an important enough case to fix that?  Starmada seems pretty thorough in most areas.

(I don't have any designs I'm trying to get a bit cheaper.  Just curious.  I'm not sure that I actually want to fool with the notation to help me remember the extended arcs.)

andy

  • From: Denver, CO
  • Registered: 2005-03-27
  • Posts: 3,578

Re: extended fire arcs

Nope, no discount.

In theory, the added flexibility makes up for the slight increase in cost.

In practice, allowing a discount would require listing all of the combinations and the appropriate discount -- and the Excel spreadsheet would be a b*tch.

In reality, the difference is minimal (CJ at a cost of 2 is only 15% more than a cost of 1.5).

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

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  • Registered: 2005-03-27
  • Posts: 811

Re: extended fire arcs

Not to undermine your incredible logic Dan big_smile, but it is simple if you consider each arc as a 30° arc instead of a 60° arc, here's what you do...

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mj12games/files/StarmadaAE/NewArcs.xls

  • Registered: 2005-06-08
  • Posts: 760

Re: extended fire arcs

IF and that is a big IF, someone wanted to use 30 degree arcs, it would be simpler to change the +1 per arc to +0.5 per arc.
Would it not?

  • Registered: 2005-03-27
  • Posts: 811

Re: extended fire arcs

I'm not advocating 30° arcs, simply saying that programatically, it is easier to conceptualize arcs as 2x30° and add them together, thus acj becomes 2.5 arcs whereas aci becomes 3.

the spreadsheet doesn't show that very well, but divide the 30° arcs by 2 and you get the correct number