T5SS Update: X Starports

[KDLadage]

Side note: this discussion of the nature of a C Starport is exactly the kind of discussion that I think should have taken place prior to the release of T5 and would have benefited the final document greatly.

IMVHO, YMMV, yada yada yada...

 

[atpollard]

Side note: this discussion of the nature of a C Starport is exactly the kind of discussion that I think should have taken place prior to the release of T5 and would have benefited the final document greatly.

IMVHO, YMMV, yada yada yada...

Knowing some of the people involved when T5 was hidden behind the wall (private access only), I would be very surprised if it wasn't discussed.

 

[Selandia]

the way I see this fuel issue is: in the original LBB it was a way to make the free trading players sweat: spend a fortune on fuel and suffer economic pressure, or relax the economic pressure but risk missjump. (I know I sweated it)

Then came HG, with fuel purifier, and all the old design stop making sense, re: the post of Ulsyus and Atpollard, why not a fuel purifier? I thereafter fitted purifier in every of my design unless they were liner running between installations where their corp. would have purifier, re: mike wightman post and that was my macro economic unstated factor -nobody is buying it anyway-, re simonh post. I would nonetheless allow any C starport to supply refined fuel since it is not forbiden. It is just not guaranted (and does not make sense that it does not, C rate is broken as designed)

The issue thus became a "who care" issue carried in T5 for downward compatibility purpose (I see no other reason and am guilty of not complaining on the T5 private forum). Remember, we are in the computer age typing on "qwerty" keyboard because an ergonomically optimum keyboard would allow good typists to outrun the reaction time of mecanical typewriters. So typing speed was purposefully limited by "crooking" the keyboard.

have fun

Selandia

 

[KDLadage]

Knowing some of the people involved when T5 was hidden behind the wall (private access only), I would be very surprised if it wasn't discussed.

Good to know.

 

[KDLadage]

Remember, we are in the computer age typing on "qwerty" keyboard because an ergonomically optimum keyboard would allow good typists to outrun the reaction time of mecanical typewriters. So typing speed was purposefully limited by "crooking" the keyboard.

Side note: that is an Urban Legend, sir.

From Wikipedia: "Consequently, jams were especially serious, because the typist could only discover the mishap by raising the carriage to inspect what he had typed. The solution was to place commonly used letter-pairs (like 'th' or 'st') so that their type bars were not neighboring, avoiding jams. Contrary to popular belief, the QWERTY layout was not designed to slow the typist down, but rather to speed up typing by preventing jams. There is also evidence that, aside from the issue of jamming, keys being farther apart increases typing speed on its own, because it encourages alternation between the hands."

(emphasis mine)

 

[Selandia]

Side note: that is an Urban Legend, sir.

From Wikipedia: "Consequently, jams were especially serious, because the typist could only discover the mishap by raising the carriage to inspect what he had typed. The solution was to place commonly used letter-pairs (like 'th' or 'st') so that their type bars were not neighboring, avoiding jams. Contrary to popular belief, the QWERTY layout was not designed to slow the typist down, but rather to speed up typing by preventing jams. There is also evidence that, aside from the issue of jamming, keys being farther apart increases typing speed on its own, because it encourages alternation between the hands."

(emphasis mine)

I stand corrected, (as far as I trust Wiki)

have fun

Selandia