Re: [GZG] FT Light: 5 is the new 6?

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y...four pages? Must be something wrong! Isn't bigger = better?
 
Printing it now...

F.P. Kiesche III
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--- On Thu, 7/24/08, Jason Weiser <jason.weiser@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Jason Weiser <jason.weiser@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GZG] FT Light: 5 is the new 6?
To: gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu
Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 10:26 AM

Hmm...this could be a lot of fun.

  Jason

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com> wrote:
>>In Full Thrust 2nd Ed 1992, half the thrust rating
>>rounded UP could be used for changing course.
>>
>>In Fleet Book 1 1998, it became half the thrust
>>rounded DOWN.
>>
>>Now in Full Thrust Light 2008, it's back to UP.
>>
>>I don't have any strong opinion either way (unlike
>>my other posting on FT Light), but I'm curious as
>>to why it changed. Synchronisation with the orbit
>>of Jupiter?
>
>
> Mainly for simplification; going back to the original means that we
> no longer have to have a special exception to the rule to cover
> thrust-1 ships. It also makes odd-thrust ships a little more agile
> again, which is probably a good thing.
>
> In general, Simple = Good, provided "simple" does not become
> "simplistic"....  ;-)
>
> Jon (GZG)
>
>>
>>	 cheers,
>>	 Hugh
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