Re: FTIII: A Plea to End "Me Too" Firing.
From: Joachim Heck - SunSoft <jheck@E...>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:44:48 -0400
Subject: Re: FTIII: A Plea to End "Me Too" Firing.
Absolutely Barking Stars writes:
@:) At 05:59 PM 6/2/97 -0500, you wrote:
@:) > Now, how long in the average turn in FT in "game time?"
@:) I would say not very long. You are making the presumption that all
@:) this is done by human hand. Even now there's a degree of
@:) automation in counterbattery fire and interception. It's
@:) reasonable to resume that in FT period most of the specifics of
@:) combat are handled by superfast computers.
Good point but I think it's a bad idea to assume anything of this
sort about FT. Maybe I'm playing in the Dune universe with incredible
weapons but no computers at all. Who knows?
-joachim