RE: FTL Jumps and making it tricky...

Wrong game universe for most of this theory.  There aren't any 'jump
points'
in the Tuffleyverse, as a normal jump can spit you out several light
minutes
off your plotted exit point.

Pg44-45 of FTFB covers all the known details of jump theory.

The closer you are to a gravity well, the shorter the jump.  So if you
have
picket ships in the outer system, the energy of jump translation should
be
picked up, unless its a large system, or their navigators make a very
risky
jump strait into a gravity well.  

If you play in the Starwarz universe, I use 5% mass per gravity well
generator, with the effect of dragging a ship out of hyperspace &
causing a
4+threshold on the hyperdrive.

'Neath Southern Skies
http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~denian/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan M Gill [SMTP:monty@arcadia.turner.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 9:54 AM
> To:	Ground Zero Games List
> Subject:	FTL Jumps and making it tricky...
> 
> Ok, the jump points are just gravity well'less points in space that
folks 
> jump to and from. Presumably the civil ships will jump from System to 
> system so as to be near some lanes of travel	if something goes wrong.

> Military ships could do the same or be more risky and take routes that

> pass through points where there "aint nothin out there". 
> 
	<snip>

> The questions are:
>  How big would the interdictor system be? Should be pretty damn large
and 
> expensive, but doable. 50 Mass system (FB Mass size)
>  What are the deleterious effects of dumping out of FTL due to an 
> Uncharted Interdictor ship?
>  Can you really place enough ships around the system to really make a 
> fence/tripwire that the Red Force guys will trip and show their hand?
> 
> Thoughts, comments?
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> - Ryan Montieth Gill		  DoD# 0780 (Smug #1) / AMA / SOHC -
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