Re: FT3 DEVELOPMENT QUESTION: Movement system(s)? was: Re: [FT] Quiet in here, isn't it.

I haven't had much trouble with high speeds. Most of the time it's self
correcting. People with big tables and small ships who like high speeds
can
still play as they want. As Damond pointed out, there's a limiting
factor
built into the game since ranges are fixed. The faster you go, the
greater
the chance of out running the weapon ranges.

The only issues I've seen with the movement system have been oddities
where
two ships pass each other without shooting, not because they were out of
range but because their weapons were out of arc, even though they spent
most of the turn *in* arc. That's just a factor of the game, though.

There are issues with FT, but I never found the movement system to be
one
of them to be honest. Except where fighters are concerned, and that
leads
to quite another big ball of wax...

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Jon Tuffley <jon@gzg.com> wrote:

> Supplementary question arising out of this discussion…..
>
> How many people here have found very high speeds in play to be a REAL
> problem in actual games, rather than a theoretical one?
>
> I'm VERY wary of introducing maximum speeds if it can be avoided. What
are
> folks' real in-game experiences?
>
> Moving very fast has its own difficulties, not least of which is the
high
> risk of overshooting your target unless you judge things EXACTLY right
> (which is a large reason why I've never worried too much about the
> "problem" of passing ships not being able to shoot at each other -
yes, it
> may be a very big abstraction and seem odd, but it does have the
effect of
> making players keep their speeds down if they want to avoid this
happening).
>
> Please discuss……?  ;-)
>
> Jon (GZG)
>
>
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