Some other people have finally begun to make the same suggestion that I've
been thinking about for the last few days, but had yet to get around to
posting to the list. To wit - given the many difficulties with putting
fusion drives in private hands, compared with the relative simplicity of
dealing with good ol' thruster plates (once that nasty thing about
conservation of energy is fixed, keeping them from being perpetual motion
machines)...
Why not just assume that TNE ships are driven by thruster plates? Hungry
ones, to be sure, compared with what they used to be (in the already
much-broken MT rules), but this can only be a good thing. The fact that
their fuel consumption and other figures happen to resemble those of
fusion rockets doesn't necessarily mean anything.
Much simpler, yes?
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Kelly St.Clair (Daydreamer) PS: I think Steve is just crabby because
[email removed] no-one listened to him when he was going
on about the economics rules, naval
budgets, etc. Or his vision for the
net.TNE.campaign. :)