Re: Time Scale for Maping the Sol System...
From: Nyrath the nearly wise <nyrath@c...>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:42:36 -0400
Subject: Re: Time Scale for Maping the Sol System...
"Imre A. Szabo" wrote:
> I'm debating about time scales per strategic turn (when every thing
> rotates). It would be much easier to do 2 months per turn, but that
> would mean Mercury and Venus would have to rotate two ticks per turn
> (this has to do with time required for them to each make on orbit.
Any
> other ideas how to handle this??? (Going to 1 month per turn is not
an
> option. I don't want to do 3,000 tick marks for Pluto...)
In the designers notes for SPI's BATTLEFLEET MARS,
he notes that if he re-did the game, he'd change the
length of a turn to the square root of something or
other. Alas, my copy of the game is in storage.