Ships can report to Headquarters, they just can't dock there. So your personnel have to beam up and down from Headquarters to ship and vice versa and the ships don't get a shields boost.
>Did I miss something?
>
>
>I read with some dismay in Evan Lorentz's Headquarters article in SCRYE #6.2,
>"... since Headquarters are planet-based facilities, your ships have no way
>of docking there. You cannot rely on 50% of your their shield to protect
>your ships as you could at a space-based facility".
>
>The 12/7/98 Rulebook (pg 5 - Facilities) says "Personnel, Ship and Equipment
>cards must normally report for duty to a compatible outpost, headquarters,
>site or other place that allows reporting (i.e., personnel may not normally
>be reported directly aboard a ship). Outposts and headquarters allow all
>compatible cards to report there; sites allow only certain cards to report,
>as indicated on each Site card."
>
>The 12/7/98 Glossary (Facilites) is rather vague about the issue. "Most
>facilities are conceptually located “in space,” even when seeded or built at
>a planet location. (A few though, such as headquarters, specify that they are
>seeded or built on a planet.) Only space facilities allow ships to dock and
>be protected by the facility’s SHIELDS." I read that to mean the Headquarters must be seeded/built at a planet mission.
>
>What is the story on this? If Evan is correct, IMHO the headquarters cards
>are relatively useless.
>
>Thanks in advance...
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You're confusing docking with reporting (txt) ... Qume ... [4/19/99 21:41]
