Re: [FT][FMA] Shipboard skirmishing
From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@q...>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 07:22:39 -0400
Subject: Re: [FT][FMA] Shipboard skirmishing
>> In a message dated 10/20/1999 8:51:46 PM Central Daylight
Time,
>> laserlight@quixnet.net writes:
>>
>> > b) turn OFF artificial grav? Instead, have separate
areas
>> > of the ship on independent grav control. Kick it up
to 2
>> > gee. Or 3. Or 4. Or 5. Whatever works. Feeling
really
>> > nasty? Set magnitude at, say, 4 gees in a corridor
and
>> > cycle polarity from positive to negative, say twice a
>> > second.
Bill S wrote
>> I rather like this idea of artifical "shipquakes!"
YOUCH! Marine yo-yos!
>>
>> Bill
>
>Isn't this being rather -- hard -- on one's toys? (grin)
>
>Donald Hosford
I came up with this idea for ship defense for a Traveller
campaign back around 1982. We also had about 200 interior
anti-personnel laser turrets here and there in the
passageways, under automatic computer control. For some
reason, most of the PC's preferred to ride in our _other_
ship...