August 23rd, 2002, 05:48 AM
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Re: New, alternate means of modelling QNP in v1.78
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Originally posted by jimbob:
Pax said: quote:
You don't have to revert to bonus movement (one of the aspects of propulsion in SE4 I never did like overmuch).
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Yeah, I don't like the bald use of the bonus movement thing all that much either. But it can be a useful tool. As far as I can determine it would be the only way to allow a total movement of >1 for Basemoons (and other huge ships) in the current QNP systems because of the RCE problem. Consider it RCE bipass surgery 
Why bother? If it takes 10% of mass to move at the MP of the engine technology known, Battle Moons would use 1000kT engine components. If the component gave 5 movement points, the 'moon woudl move at 5.
It'd just take a single, truly MASSIVE engine to do it. 8)
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