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Old 10-27-2017, 11:32 AM   #28
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Default Re: [Spaceships] simply fuel math...

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Originally Posted by ericthered View Post
That's the way DR scaling often works. You also have the logarithmic way, which is what the spaceships tables that generate the DR in the first place use.
It's actually the same method. The DR tables in spaceships use the range/speed chart. The sizes also use the range/speed chart, and since the range/speed chart is 10^((SM-2)/6), we would expect masses to vary with the cube of length, or based on 10^((SM-2)/2). This is in fact the scale used for spaceships masses, once you include rounding errors.
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