Re: Real Space Combat Help:

Phillip E. Pournelle writes:

@:) ... You would have a better bet against an orbiting target given
@:) that his threat cone is a LOT smaller, but then do you want 1,000
@:) rounds orbiting your planet where you might want to put sattelites
@:) yourself...?

  Here is an intriguing idea I'd not thought of.  How do we model this
in an orbital combat game?  My first idea is to have every round of
ammunition fired (and every ship damaged) increase the "space garbage"
factor, which affects everybody.  A ship takes damage just by moving
and the higher the space garbage factor the more damage taken per inch
moved.

-joachim