Yes, I have pointed out the real effects of ramming many times. Even moderate sized meteors hitting the earth are more powerful than the entire nuclear arsenal of the super-powers at their height. There's no way that a ship could survive the energies involved. Ramming would realistically be suicide no matter how much armor you crammed into your ship. <shrug> Warp points are not realistic either.
Enough people want the ramming option in the game that it's going to stay. I would prefer that there at least be a "special" tech required to build a ship that can survive a ram, then most ships could not survive and it would really be a Last-resort suicide tactic. Not sure what imaginary science you could invent to make it survivable, though. A ramming-prow made of some incredible substance that can be a "Shock absorber" maybe? It would have to be ablative, meaning you use it once and it's destroyed. A material hard enough to hit another ship and simply "take it" would also be immune to just about any weapon you can imagine.
[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 26 September 2000).]