Re: FT: Pre-read questions

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:03:24PM +1100, Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

>In that (OK
>speaking for myself here) I have a bunch of small STL defense ships for
the
>IAS, but I just assumed that the bigger stuff would have FTL so I could
get
>it around and as it was stationed around my single star system it
doubled up
>as defense and so I didn't need extra STL stuff of the same size
(barring my
>asteroid bases).

Also, I've been working out some numbers recently - FTL is a really neat
thing to have for getting around inside a star system. I'm assuming a
stellar hyperlimit at about 5AU and 1g per thrust point; it's worth
jumping as soon as you get outside that range, unless you're going to a
planet that has its own huge gravity well.

Doesn't matter if you don't have anything worth defending outside the
hyperlimit, of course - and this might well be the case, since the limit
is a pretty useful way of stopping ships from dropping out on top of
you.