04-21-2021, 06:41 PM | #11 |
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
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Re: Better vehicle system?
Charles Babbage seems to have thought it was easier to invent the difference engine.
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04-21-2021, 07:10 PM | #12 | |
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Re: Better vehicle system?
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There is also a radical difference in philosophy of HP between 3e and 4e with 4e vehicles having many, many fewer ones. I personally wouldn't convert 3e products of Ve2 to 4e. I'd just start over. Also, there are only 2 places in Ve2 where cube roots are required and they affect water vehicles only. A table of approximations is provided to avoid doing the cube roots. Other than that it's basic math and square roots. Issues might arise out of the number of steps and the need to do that basic math at each one. It isn't as simple as Spaceships but I can design in Spaceships by counting on my fingers (going around my 10 fingers twice) and then looking up the performance for each system at the chosen TLs and SMs. It's _very_ hard to create a system that's more detailed than Spaceships but not too much more complicated.
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