Re: Centimeters

On  3-May-00 at 08:32, Jeremey Claridge (jeremy.claridge@kcl.ac.uk)
wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 3 May 2000 04:52:06 -0700 Sean Bayan Schoonmaker
> <schoon@aimnet.com> wrote: 
> 
> 
> > >CM-scale SUCKS!
> > 
> > Many of these complaints could be remedied by adopting a 1 MU = 2 cm
> > scale. Granted that it's not THAT much extra space, but it makes
metric
> > users happy.
> > 
> Well 2 cm is only 5mm off of one inch anyway.
> 
> I missed the point to this arguement. Why do people want cm?
> Was is because the world has supposed to have gone Metric by now :)

Speed, speed, and more speed.  If you are not playing on an artificially
restricted surface 30 seems to be about the lowest speed for thrust
4 ships (cinematic, haven't tried vector yet).

Roger