Re: Why big ships are too good...

On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, lojeck wrote:

> in the 180 mass 3 ship configuration, what happens if you destroy the
> center ship? or should the ship be designed to not have a center?
> 
> Brian Lojeck
> lojeck@mizar.usc.edu
> 

The assumption we were running on is that total hull points is not 
representative of the entire hull, merely the amount of damage required 
to damage its usefulness in terms of vital systems and such and actually

there are structural elements left behind even if all damage points are 
gone.  A second method would be to design superships in a starbase type 
arrangement, with each module connected to all the others... So a three 
module ships would look like a triangle (with limiting arcs for each
module)

--Binhan