Re: [FT] Vector Silliness

On 11-Aug-99 at 10:27, Keith Watt (kwatt@ExodusProject.com) wrote:
> 
> 
> Roger Books wrote:
> 
> > > 3) Limit "push" movement to 1 and allow a ship to "push" forward.
This
> > > brings "push" movement back to what it should be. Minimal,
adjustments
> > > for docking. Rationalization: Maneuvering thrusters are MUCH less
> > > powerful than the main drive.
> > 
> > You forgot
> > 
> > 4.	Do not allow a push and a thrust to be separated by a rotate.
> 
> 
> Or even simpler and more realistic, don't allow pushes at all.  A
> thruster push, I feel sure, was inspired by the idea of "docking
> thrusters" for finely-controlled movements, but in order to use those
> thrusters to get the kind of results you see from pushes in the rules,
> you've got to have a main drive mounted on all four sides of the ship.

> Aside from the fact that this would look silly (note none of the minis
> do this!), it's really totally unnecessary.  Just allow any number or
> combination of rotates and main drives and all the problems are
solved.

So if you have X thrust you may rotate (any amount, costing one) and
then thrust X-1?  Sounds good to me.

Hmmm, Kr'vak (sp?) still get pushes?

Roger