Re: Berserkers in FT?

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Ryan Montieth Gill wrote:

> So, has any one tried this yet? What about the issues of super huge
ships?
> I understand that super huge tonnage ships are sorta out of the scope
of
> the game... What are the problems of this?  

There is no set ship scale in Full Thrust. If you want your Mass 4 
scoutship to simulate a 100-ton ship from Traveller, fine - but then you

have sort of limited the size of the Mass 100+ capital ships too. If, on

the other hand, the Mass 4 ship is a 500 meter long Renegade Legion 
destroyer, then the capitals will probably be fair simulations of RL 
Leviathans - up to, or possibly exceeding, 3 km in length, and billions 
of tons in mass.

The problem comes when you want a size range spanning from 100-ton
skiffs 
to Leviathans, and don't realize that the skiffs will in effect be 
fighters compared to the biggies...

Later,

Oerjan Ohlson

"Life is like a sewer.
 What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
 -Hen3ry