Re: Weapon Modelling
From: Randall Joiner <rljoiner@m...>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 22:42:45 -0700
Subject: Re: Weapon Modelling
I could be wrong, but for some reason I'm remembering a rule from the
books
that human vessels are locked at a maximum thrust rating... I wanna say
8?
Is this just my bad memory, or does anyone else remember this?
Rand.
At 09:42 PM 6/6/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > We need some simplifying assumptions,or we need to account for
>targetting aspects, so I simply assumed that all spacecraft are
>spheres. As for the range of values, we probably only want half of
>mass^(2/3), so mass 3 to mass 250 has ranges from 1 to 20. For the
>thrust adjustment, the maximum reasonable thrust is 12.
>
>There are surveillance cutters with thrust 13-16 out there.