[Diaspora] Campaign Writeup: ship combat

[David Dunham]

Brad answered

> It takes 3 *shifts* to leave. You can get a roll such that you have more
> than three shifts to burn with. Your V-shift rating limits the number of
> bars (zones?) you can move but you can still spend tons of shifts on the
> penalties between bars at the edges.

Wow, I really managed to misread things.

> Overburn is only for calculating travel times. It does not apply to ship
> combat. That's why it seems poorly integrated. :D


Ah, it's only to cut down on the 9 days? P. 70 did mention combat, which may be why I was thinking along those lines.

As for V-shift, I figured that with all of the abstraction it wasn't really always the same as delta-v. (Or ∆v if the mailing list doesn't destroy the Unicode.)

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