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Old 09-21-2024, 01:56 AM   #6
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Default Re: Does Spacecraft Handling goes lower than -3 at greater sizes

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Originally Posted by johndallman View Post
Ships with Hnd -5 presumably never try to dock under their own power, given that a master pilot with skill 16 is only 50:50 to succeed. Like very large oil tankers, they must confine themselves to stopping in approximately the right place, and then place themselves in the care of tugs.
This is true, and certainly a factor for extremely large ships. Warships large enough to have -4 or -5 in Hnd are probably going to be closer to mobile bases ("That's no moon."), similar in many ways to modern aircraft carriers.
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