Re: (1785) The Drives Revision: my position summary...

George William Herbert said [edited]:
> .... Subpoint of this would be a 'flavor-of-game' alteration,
> because heavily armoured naval ships would end up with 1-G or less and most
> player ships will be able to RUN AWAY 8-) ...

This is the normal case now.  Major heavy military ships simply cannot
outrun most civilian ships.  This is why you have smaller, lighter armored,
military ships for chasing down civilian ships!  Note that this is not true
of bulk cargo ships that are fully loaded.  It is only true of "speedsters",
smuggler's craft (which are far more powerful than they *appear* to be), and
*empty* bulk cargo ships.  Or so has been my (limited) experience....

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