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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.

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