On Thu, 6 Jul 2017 15:34:29 -0700, you wrote to Freelance Traveller:

>On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com>
>wrote:
>
>>  I'm analyzing some ship designs that are slightly
>> house-ruled; they're severely overpowered (larger M-Drive and PP than
>> the rules nominally allow; the ships in question are more or less
>> "tugboats" for a shipyard),
>
>
>The question occurs are the "oversized" drives just larger standard drives
>or are they custom built drives?
>
>My assumption with the standard drives is that they are off the shelf sorta
>things.
>
>One-off custom drives on the other hand might take significantly longer to
>to put together.

For the purposes of this analysis, you can assume that they're
off-the-shelf drives, just larger ones than are normally "rated" for
the hull (that is, a drive several sizes smaller will get the max 6Gs
when this ship is "unladen" - however, a 400-ton ship will be able to
tow a 3600-ton hull at 1G). That's one of the reasons that the hull is
a custom hull.

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