Steve-
In the original message of this thread you stated that the permissable targets for a mass driver are other of your populations in the same system with mass drivers, and any detected alien populations whether they have mass drivers or not.
Has this changed at some point? In the Twin Moons game both races have detected at least one alien population, but neither can target anything but their own populations with their mass drivers.
It looks like it has changed, although I don't remember changing it. There was probably a good reason at the time but I don't remember that either . Senility is obviously creeping in.
Steve
I didn't remember any change being mentioned, but I sometimes miss things, especially when I'm running a campaign and not paying attention to the latest version. Happened with SA all the time.
That is just as well. In the Twin Moons campaign, I was going to have the Colonists use their mass drivers to systematically wipe Strug colonies out throughout the system. This might lead to a situation where everyone needs to keep building mass drivers to make sure that no one else has more than they do. The more I thought about it, the more untenable this situation seemed. Both sides might be able to protect their home worlds, but it seemed unlikely that either would be able to build any colonies, as they wouldn't be able to divert enough mass drivers to protect the colony without weakening their homeworld defenses.
Of course, this problem is limited to situations where two sides have major worlds in the same system.
Thanks
Kurt