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Old 11-12-2009, 05:50 PM   #8
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Default Re: Spaceships 6: We Will Rock You

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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth View Post
The SPS (p8) gets a special place in my heart as a disappointment for labeling the power beams in joules instead of something actually meaningful...

But it also seems to have a genuine bug. It has a spinal power beam which can only be pointed forward, and a rear-mounted power beam that can't. There's no way for it to point all its beams at the ground station.
It's an abstraction -- another option (trading one "error" for another) would have been to represent it as two spinal batteries. Again, that's not legal for actual weapons, but that's not what this is -- it's just a big ol' power beam with no actual offensive capability.

(David could have written up a new, 6-system monstrosity for this one satellite, but that would've really been overkill. Especially considering that it's mainly just a bullet-point on the description of what this thing does.)
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