Re: Beta Fighter game report

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 07:48:18AM -0500, Nyrath the nearly wise
distributed foul capitalist propaganda: 

[...]
> >This problem is unsolvable by game rules, because it's a problem of
> >physics - if you have vector movement, you can acumulate speed. 
[...]
>	Well, if I may be allowed to interject my two cents here,
>	it is solvable or unsolvable the same way hypervelocity
>	ships are in the real world.

[snip delta-V constraints] 

Of course. However, this has no bearing on the vector- vs non-vector
fighters in a vector universe problem. :-)

>	Keith Watt had an amusing fuel system for Full Thrust,
>	gone from the web but still in the Wayback Machine.
> Fuel Consumption for Full Thrust
> http://web.archive.org/web/20010803015137/exodusproject.com/Fuel.htm

Downloaded and saved. Nice. :-)

Leslie
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