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Re: The Ft FAQ!/Odd Thrust

From: Joachim Heck - SunSoft <jheck@E...>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 14:55:09 -0500
Subject: Re: The Ft FAQ!/Odd Thrust

Oerjan Ohlson writes:
@:) On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, John Crimmins wrote:
@:) 
@:) >	      Has this really been a subjuect for debate?  We've
@:) > always simply split the move in half, like the 2.5 & 2.5 split
@:) > you mention above.  No offense, I'm just curious, but why would
@:) > you do it any other way?	Why complicate things?
@:) 
@:) Because the rules do cover this (ie, odd thrust point goes to the
@:) second 'half' of the move, both for turning and acceleration)? I'm
@:) almost certain that's in the FT basic rules...

  I was going to make exactly the same point a few days ago and I
pulled out my FT book just so I could toss in a page number and - LO!
- the rule was not there!  Maybe I just missed it.  They do seem to
always round numbers down, so that may be where everyone got the idea.

-joachim

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