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Re: Vector Movement

From: Sean Bayan Schoonmaker <schoon@a...>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 08:30:53 -0700
Subject: Re: Vector Movement

>On 17-Aug-99 at 15:53, Oerjan Ohlson (oerjan.ohlson@telia.com) wrote:
>
>> Under the FB vector rules you're only guaranteed to hit thrust-5 or
>> slower ships; thrust-6 can still get away (full main thrust + full
>> lateral thrust > 6 mu) :-/

Not quite true, though almost. This assumes that your placement is
perfect
- right where the ship would move if no thrust were applied. However,
GZG's
"no ruler" rule and human error make it a bit more dicey, more so the
faster a ship is moving.

Schoon

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