Dramatic SFB: Legendary officers using CO's

[Matt]

> To do legendary officers and crew quality would take a lot of extra 
> bookkeeping for the campaign.


Not the kind of book keeping you would normally see. Often times, you 
would see an XP system. This is where each ship (or fleet, if such units 
are a thing in the book keeping) accrues a variable amount of points 
from battles. These points would eventually provide certain officers 
/et. al./ at certain levels. Often this is a book keeping headache, but 
bearable in comparison of the other book keeping chores such a campaign 
often uses.


Dramatic SFB is intentionally "book keeping light". More in line with 
that effort, crew quality would be an option to purchase for ships. Each 
would effectively be another refit on top of what is available. So you 
would have a Fed CA, CAR, CAR+, CA w/ good crew, CA w/ navigator, CA w/ 
navigator and good crew, CAR w/ good crew, CAR w/ captain, CAR+ w/.... 
/ad nausium/.


Early in the development of the software, it was envisioned that 
scenario rewards would include things like gifting certain things to 
"the largest ship" or "the smallest ship" in the scenario. Such as 
giving a ship a certain partial-X-refit or a legendary officer of a 
certain type. As things matured, it was decided that such options would 
have to be enshrined in the database in order to carry-over from turn to 
turn and to balance BPVs properly.


As you can see from above, it would take the current database of over 
6,800 units and give each ship something like 10 more variants. Beyond 
what such an effort would do from a data-entry perspective or how the 
server will winnow through those, you can look at your build orders 
drop-down and envision 10 entries for every single current entry that 
you see. Then try to pick out the *one* entry that you want to build of 
those available.


--Matt

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