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Originally Posted by Nyarli
They are not the most expensive of all drives, they don't require fuel and their only drawback is inability to start from planet. Am i right, or i have missed something?
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Low thrust. Bad in combat, and my understanding is that in more nuanced systems, it should limit your choice of trajectories. That can have a major impact on your actual travel times vs. abstracted Spaceships travel times, due to launch windows and that sort of thing.
However, my physics education is very weak, so I may be right out of the ballpark here. This opinion mostly comes from playing games like High Frontier, where the sails are very powerful -- cheap/light/simple -- but need a head start to win a race vs. a costly/heavy/complex rocket once it's launched.