Pier5 -> RE: System damage of Ships (2/26/2004 5:11:40 PM)
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This has been hashed over a hundred times. However, I don't think System Damage works right, at all. Capital ships have very substantial maintence facilities on board. They can't repair armor, gun tubes, or underwater shafts, but practically everything else can be, at least, made operational. These ships can, do and did stay at sea for months at a time and remained, essentially, fully operational. The system damage is, quite simply, utter nonsense. Now, destroyers are a different matter. They lack the lathes, milling machines, etc. and most importantly, the trained machinists mates to fix mechanical breakdowns. Even on destroyers, many electrical and electronic failures can be corrected by the crew, but they couldn't, for example, repair a burned up motor (which could be rewound on a capital ship)
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