ok.
Steve Jackson games had a great tactical - strategic paper-n-dice game called 'Starfleet Battles' long ago.
You could launch your Kzinti fighters from your carrier and have them target a single aspect of a Klingon Dreadnaught and they would core it like an apple..
..blowing away the shields in just that sector, then breaching the hull, then eating thru the Dreadnaught all the way to the other side.
Tactics *worked* ..altho doin it with grease pencils and dice took awhile.
If a video game could replicate some decent parameters, ship/weapons mixes .. class distinctions
.. so the players could work up small unit tactics all the way up to Fleet engagements..
..in other words a step directly into the ship from what Eve has done..
...where a starship dreadnaught requires a command crew (like the old school B-17 in Air Warrior needing gunners or you were toast)
..ya .. I'd be there.
In EVE right now the corp I am part of has had war declared on it ..
..and the 'experienced' players advise to stay in station, not go outside ..risk being 'killed'
.. buncha pansies.
I been dead.
It dint take.
-Frank aka GE
