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Kang
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 Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:50 pm Post subject: Emergency Evacuation question |
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The cost for an Emergency Evacuation (5E7) is given as one point of power.
Is this always the case, irrespective of the actual transporter cost of the ship? For example, a Kzinti Frigate evacuating another Kzinti Frigate, both movement cost [and therefore transporter cost] of 1/4, would cost only half a point total even if both ships operated their transporters - although I know that only one ship pays.
Is it because the transporters will be 'over-used', in order to get all the people off the stricken ship?
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Kahuna
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| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Kang,
I tried to think through when or why one would need to know the why on this. Maybe my memory on this rule is fuzzy, but I thought it was the stricken ship paying it and if so, why would you care if it was 1 point or all remaining power? Either way, the ship is done.
I'm guessing the biggest reason was just to keep it simple and help the game move along. |
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Kang
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| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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Nope. Power can be from either ship but I was wondering if smaller ships get a discount, because operating transporters on any ship costs the equivalent of one movement point of power. Hope that clarifies things.
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pmiller13
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| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| It is 1 point of power because (5E2) says that one point of power powers all of the transporters on a ship for 1 full turn. |
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Kang
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| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| pmiller13 wrote: | | It is 1 point of power because (5E2) says that one point of power powers all of the transporters on a ship for 1 full turn. |
Not in the latest rules. It's "energy....equal to the energy required for one point of movement".
But that's the case for normal transporter operations; I'm asking about emergency evacuation which does indeed say one point of power. I was just wondering if that one point had been overlooked in the light of the modified energy cost for smaller ships.
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mjwest
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| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Kang wrote: | | pmiller13 wrote: | | It is 1 point of power because (5E2) says that one point of power powers all of the transporters on a ship for 1 full turn. |
Not in the latest rules. It's "energy....equal to the energy required for one point of movement". |
Not in any rules. (5E2) has always said the energy for one point of movement.
On emergency evacuation, it is one point of power. I don't remember the original line of reasoning, but it is one point of power. Big ship, small ship, fleet scale, squadron scale. It is one point of power. I think it was done just to keep things simple, but that is the way it is.
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Kang
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| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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Righto! I thought KISS might be in the reasoning somewhere! 
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pmiller13
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:04 am Post subject: |
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| Yep read that way to fast. Now that I reread it I see that I was wrong it does say 1 point of movement. I guess since I was looking for a answer that said 1 point of power I just saw what I assumed it would say. |
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