The basic rules for this game:

Standard cheat disclaimer, which means that the following cheats are allowed:

- chaff
- split fleet dodge
- merge fleets after gating
- Mine damage dodge

My suggestions to the rules: no slow tech. That pratcicaly ban AR also - we already have 2 races banned.

Mine damage *dodge* allowed?
I thought it was allocation that was normally allowed, not the dodge...

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My suggestions to the rules: no slow tech. That pratcicaly ban AR also - we already have 2 races banned.

That makes sense, we should try not to make rules that will limit the PRT choices. In DD4 we added rules to enhance AR. We ended up with 2 teams taking an AR, one team did very well with it.

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Mine damage *dodge* allowed?
I thought it was allocation that was normally allowed, not the dodge...

I am not sure what you mean by this.

This is what I am referring to for mine damage dodge in the bugs list:

http:// starsautohost.org/sahforum2/index.php?t=msg&th=2387& start=0&rid=1316

Mine Damage Dodge
If you have two different ships in one fleet, the first one in your design pool will take 4/5 of the damage, and the second one will take 1/5. {quote LEit}
You can (ab)use this to for example give your DD sweepers a longer life span. Pairing one (shielded) DD with a chaff (with the chaff in a design slot somewhere above the DD) makes sure the DD will survive a hit from a standard minefield with minimum damage (1/5). To achieve this otherwise you would need to use 5 of such DDs in one fleet. The exploit here is that you let the chaff take 4/5 of the 500dp (non ramscoop) damage. Scout chaff only has 20dp armor which means 380dp damage is nowhere taken into account, that damage disappears and is not passed on to any other ships in your fleet. Of course the ship in the first slot does not have to be a chaff but that is usuall the cheapest ship around.

The primary reason I often allow this in games is because it is difficult to police.

There are two things that can be done:
A chaff can be used to field 75% of the damage (with several hundred points of damage going on a 20 point hull (i.e. evaporating large amounts of damage) OR the ships can be arranged such that the chaff takes 25%, not 75%.

I'd suggest that chaff can easily be put in slot 16 (and sweepers in a high slot)

XAPBob wrote on Fri, 31 May 2013 18:03

There are two things that can be done:
A chaff can be used to field 75% of the damage (with several hundred points of damage going on a 20 point hull (i.e. evaporating large amounts of damage) OR the ships can be arranged such that the chaff takes 25%, not 75%.

I'd suggest that chaff can easily be put in slot 16 (and sweepers in a high slot)

But since everyone can benefit from it and the host doesn't want to police it ...

Besides from what I've seen lately players just tend to ram cheap FF's with a single gatling into minefields these days.

leonidas.

You will start next to your teammate.

Looking at previous Dynamic Duo games, it looks like teammate HWs start 162 ly or closer. Enemy HWs 300 ly or farther.

Update on team list:

ManicLurch/Rolf
Loucipher/Asmodai
Bystander/Ashlyn
Mac1/?
LittleEddie/?
jscoble/?

So we have 3 confirmed teams out of the 6 slots available and enough interested players to fill out another team. Preference for the last slots will go to teams, so those interested start looking for a teammate. But also choose your teammate well. Finding a good match for a teammate can make this game a lot more fun. By good match I don't necessarily mean skill level. I would think playstyles, communication and similar MM tolerances would be more important in choosing a teammate. Or another scenario that can work is one team member assuming the teacher role and the other the student. This worked well for me in the first DD game, with me assuming the student role and learning a lot

Did you say what size galaxy ?