[TML] Fractional drives and manouvering thrusters
kaladorn@xxxxxx
(08 May 2020 18:28 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Fractional drives and manouvering thrusters
Vareck Bostrom
(08 May 2020 21:31 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Fractional drives and manouvering thrusters
kaladorn@xxxxxx
(08 May 2020 22:02 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Fractional drives and manouvering thrusters
Vareck Bostrom
(08 May 2020 22:29 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Fractional drives and manouvering thrusters
Richard Aiken
(09 May 2020 23:28 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Fractional drives and manouvering thrusters
Jeffrey Schwartz
(08 May 2020 22:38 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Fractional drives and manouvering thrusters Thomas Jones-Low (09 May 2020 00:32 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Fractional drives and manouvering thrusters
Postmark
(09 May 2020 09:35 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Fractional drives and manouvering thrusters Thomas Jones-Low 09 May 2020 00:32 UTC
Which ruleset are you thinking of building your ship? - TNE (FF&S) and GURPS reverse the formula (install thrust quantity and calculate thrust from the mass of the ship). - Most of the ship design sequences like HG use a formula which would make it easy and obvious how to calculate a fractional drive system. T5 and MGT both use a table, but reversing that into the formula isn't hard. On 5/8/2020 2:28 PM, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote: > I realize fractional Jump drives aren't useful in a 2D Hex map universe. > > However, a fractional Manouver Drive could. If I can have a 2.5G drive and my > pursuer only has a 2.0G drive... well, I'm gonna get away. > > So here's my question, please give your thoughts in a particular rules > iteration's context: > > Can one install a fractional main drive? > > Really, I think the question really may be: Is there a clear enough progression > or an equation that would let me calculate the right amount of engine to install > to get X.Y G drives (where X and Y are integers)? I'm willing to ignore the > second decimal place. > > Do the drive sizes grow linearly for main drives? Or is there some other curve > that they follow? > > (I'm asking this for my notion of a rebuilt Guardian class battle station - I > might want to put 0.1 or 0.2 G station keeping /orbital adjustment drive on it) > > And if we assume there are manouvering thrusters that let us roll, yaw, pitch, > and even thrust a bit, have they ever been characterized in the amount of thrust > they provide? > > I ask because we know primarily about main drives. We have ratings for them. We > use them for overall heavy accel and decel. But don't we have other thrusters > for docking? For minor adjustments while in orbit? If so, what are their > performance limits/envelopes? > > That might also impact how fast I can roll ship (to remove a compromised armour > facing or expose undamaged weapons) and how much braking I can do *without* > flipping tail to the enemy... > > Tom B > > > ----- > The Traveller Mailing List > Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml > Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com > To unsubscribe from this list please go to > http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=QWmJ5KKpHa3MBU63jjs3knG6o9jLMkSu > -- Thomas Jones-Low Work: xxxxxx@softstart.com Home: xxxxxx@gmail.com