From: Donald Hosford <hosford.donald@a...>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 18:27:36 -0500
Subject: game scale
> At 03:29 PM 2/16/97 -0500, you wrote: For anyone interested, Starfire uses a scale of 93,000 miles (about 150,000KM) per tactical hex, and a turn length of 30 seconds. This makes a speed 1 ship travel at about 1.7% the speed of light. The Starfire tactical hex is about half a light second across. In the example above, light would cover 378,000 inches in one 21 minute turn. That makes a speed 1 ship travel at about 0.00026% the speed of light.