Bertil:
> Purchase price? I didn't think the purchase price had to be payed at
>all, just the 10% of purchase price cost which pays the purchase (but
>spread out during several years) and maintainance. So you should
>compare the salary to 10% of the purchase price and not 100% of it.
>This would make the fleed shrink by 10 to 30% for TL15 and more at
>lower TL's where larger crews are needed.
No. In the campaign game, your STARTING fleet is indeed bought in that
fashion. All ships acquired during the course of the game must be payed
for normally, and maintained by expenditure of 1/10 it's cost per year.
Russell Wallace:
>However, while armor not made of atomic matter is theoretically
>impossible,
It is? I have read things suggesting that that is not necessarily so.
Has neutronium ceased to exist? It is, after all, non-atomic matter.
There have been speculations that it is theoretically possible to build
a pseudo-atom with protons in orbit around negatively charged hadrons or
leptons (I forget which, its been a long time since I saw the article).
Such an idea is certainly way out in left field, but stranger things
have come to pass.
>I assume is some sort of theoretically *impossible* armor, which can
>withstand any man-portable conventional weapon; but if this is what is
>causing your problem, why not simply remove it and improve the realism
>while you're at it?
No, it's probably more like degenerate matter, but not so extreme. Or
do you disbelieve in degenerate matter too?
Scott:
>I always thought that the 10* rule to reach low planetary orbit was
>kinda dumb.
>
>After all, any vehicle that is capable of reaching orbit is going to
>have to have a thrust to weight ratio of greater than one anyway.
>Therefore, the aircraft could effectively go verticle and climb out as
>a normal rocket!
>
>You take off normally from a runway, and after you've climbed a few
>hundred feet, pull the nose up. WAY up. If you've got the engines,
>you don't NEED lift!
I think you have hit on the crux of the matter here. I agree
completely.
>The U.S. Mercury project, which placed a man in orbit in the
>1960's used (I believe) fuel cells for power. Therefore, I have
>allowed the use of fuel cells in TL 6 space vehicles.
I don't think so. The Gemini definitely did just a couple of years
later. I have a model on my desk clearly showing the fuel cells.
Adrian Hurt:
>If they don't mind ending up with a radioactive desert. If they're
>defending their homeland, they might want to be careful; if they're
>attacking, they may be under orders not to do too much damage, because
>they're supposed to be capturing the place, not destroying it; and if
>they are supposed to be destroying it, a few large nuclear missiles
>will do a better job anyway.
Well, nuclear dampers can be used to kill the radiation left by nuclear
attack. SO the desert wouldn't be radioactive. Just a desert.
Later...
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