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Re: make PP what they are suppose to be

Fri, 07 September 2007 04:06

Machalot

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Why not just require that a ship with a hull mass driver must be in orbit around a planet in order to fling packets? It really makes more physical sense, since a mass driver is a huge orbital facility that theoretically uses the planet's gravity field as a slingshot.

Make flinging mineral packets a waypoint-zero task, so you have to be there for at least one year beforehand like remote mining or minelaying. Require the minerals it flings to come from the surface, such as from a friendly colony or from mining robots, rather than from fleet cargo. And don't allow it to target the planet it is orbiting. Maybe allow it to receive mass packets as well in order to give fledgling colonies a mineral boost without having to spend fuel transporting them in freighters.

That way, it serves most people's desired function, which is to return minerals from a remote mining outpost, but it doesn't become a portable doomsday weapon. And you don't have to add all kinds of caveats and special gimmicky rules like "negative cloaking" and "recoil" to make it "fair".

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		make PP what they are suppose to be By: dreadlordnaf on Tue, 02 August 2005 04:47
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Storm on Tue, 02 August 2005 05:50
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: dreadlordnaf on Tue, 02 August 2005 07:31
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Storm on Tue, 02 August 2005 09:12
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: dreadlordnaf on Tue, 02 August 2005 12:17
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Dogthinkers on Tue, 02 August 2005 19:10
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Micha on Tue, 02 August 2005 06:14
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: gible on Tue, 02 August 2005 06:54
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Orca on Tue, 02 August 2005 11:24
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: dreadlordnaf on Tue, 02 August 2005 12:15
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: mazda on Wed, 03 August 2005 04:10
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Kotk on Wed, 03 August 2005 04:48
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: mazda on Wed, 03 August 2005 05:17
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Kotk on Wed, 03 August 2005 08:09
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: velvetthroat57 on Wed, 03 August 2005 12:16
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: crr65536 on Wed, 03 August 2005 13:02
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Kotk on Wed, 03 August 2005 13:48
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: crr65536 on Wed, 03 August 2005 15:26
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: velvetthroat57 on Wed, 03 August 2005 17:39
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: crr65536 on Wed, 03 August 2005 21:07
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: velvetthroat57 on Wed, 03 August 2005 23:08
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: SinicalIdealist on Wed, 03 August 2005 23:54
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: wizard on Fri, 05 August 2005 06:49
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: SinicalIdealist on Fri, 05 August 2005 16:37
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: iztok on Thu, 11 August 2005 04:35
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: mazda on Thu, 11 August 2005 06:14
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: iztok on Thu, 11 August 2005 08:33
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Kotk on Thu, 11 August 2005 13:00
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: mazda on Thu, 11 August 2005 18:07
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Kotk on Fri, 12 August 2005 07:20
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Ptolemy on Fri, 12 August 2005 10:21
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: LEit on Sat, 06 August 2005 23:04
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: craebild on Sun, 07 August 2005 04:20
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: LEit on Sun, 07 August 2005 11:02
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: SinicalIdealist on Sun, 07 August 2005 12:42
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: LEit on Mon, 08 August 2005 11:05
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: dethdukk on Mon, 08 August 2005 14:23
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Orca on Mon, 08 August 2005 20:05
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: crr65536 on Mon, 08 August 2005 21:27
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: dethdukk on Mon, 08 August 2005 21:59
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: dethdukk on Mon, 08 August 2005 22:10
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: dethdukk on Mon, 08 August 2005 22:21
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: crr65536 on Mon, 08 August 2005 23:31
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: dethdukk on Tue, 09 August 2005 00:01
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: dethdukk on Tue, 09 August 2005 00:02
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Dogthinkers on Tue, 09 August 2005 00:09
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: crr65536 on Tue, 09 August 2005 01:11
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: dethdukk on Tue, 09 August 2005 01:36
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: crr65536 on Tue, 09 August 2005 01:49
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Dogthinkers on Tue, 09 August 2005 04:08
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: mazda on Tue, 09 August 2005 05:57
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: LEit on Tue, 09 August 2005 09:13
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: dethdukk on Tue, 09 August 2005 10:59
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: mazda on Tue, 09 August 2005 11:18
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: dethdukk on Tue, 09 August 2005 11:26
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: mazda on Tue, 09 August 2005 18:06
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: multilis on Tue, 09 August 2005 20:30
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: gible on Wed, 10 August 2005 05:11
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Ptolemy on Wed, 10 August 2005 23:36
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: gible on Wed, 10 August 2005 23:56
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Ptolemy on Thu, 11 August 2005 00:18
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: iztok on Thu, 11 August 2005 01:52
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: crr65536 on Thu, 11 August 2005 02:10
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Ptolemy on Tue, 09 August 2005 13:11
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: dethdukk on Tue, 09 August 2005 01:18
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: crr65536 on Tue, 09 August 2005 01:45
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Ptolemy on Mon, 08 August 2005 09:09
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: donjon on Mon, 08 August 2005 10:58
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: PricklyPea on Thu, 11 August 2005 08:13
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: iztok on Thu, 11 August 2005 08:38
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: rowenstin on Mon, 06 February 2006 11:57
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Ptolemy on Mon, 06 February 2006 22:39
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Madman on Mon, 06 February 2006 22:53
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: icebird on Mon, 06 February 2006 23:59
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Madman on Tue, 07 February 2006 05:25
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Micha on Tue, 07 February 2006 05:59
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Madman on Thu, 09 February 2006 06:09
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Kotk on Tue, 07 February 2006 19:53
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: rowenstin on Wed, 08 February 2006 07:20
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Kotk on Thu, 09 February 2006 05:24
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Madman on Thu, 09 February 2006 06:30
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Kotk on Thu, 09 February 2006 12:16
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Madman on Thu, 09 February 2006 16:13
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Sober Council on Tue, 01 August 2006 05:41
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: tgellan on Wed, 02 August 2006 09:42
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Kotk on Wed, 02 August 2006 16:27
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: tgellan on Thu, 03 August 2006 04:16
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Kotk on Thu, 03 August 2006 15:32
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: tgellan on Fri, 04 August 2006 03:25
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Nibor on Thu, 03 August 2006 10:41
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Machalot on Fri, 07 September 2007 04:06
		Re: make PP what they are suppose to be By: Coyote on Fri, 07 September 2007 19:56

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