Re: Re: [GZG] DSIII q

[Oerjan Ariander <oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxx>]

John Tailby wrote:

> > An SG2 turn is nominally 5 minutes, so with a 2.5-minute DS3 turn you'd 
> > get 2:1 crossover games instead of the current 1:3 cross-overs... and 
> > Full Thrust game turns can represent anything from a little over a minute 
> > to upwards of 20 minutes depending on who you ask :-/ (FWIW the FT time 
> > and distance scales I prefer are 1 turn = 100 seconds, 1 mu = 100 km, 1 
> > thrust = 10 m/s^2)...
>
> You can launch a squadron of fighters or land them and then rearm them in 
> a turn or 2 300 seconds to turn around a squadron of 6 fighters is pretty 
> quick.

Sure. Race cars can be serviced in less than 15 seconds during pit stops, 
and there's no real reason why space fighters couldn't be rearmed about as 
quickly - which leaves 4+ minutes for docking and re-launching out of those 
300 seconds. Whether or not that's realistic depends entirely on your 
assumptions about docking tractors, launch catapults etc.

Later,

Oerjan
oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxx

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 What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
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