Andrew Boulton
The Adminator
A question of terminology.
Same in mtu of ages pastOriginally posted by daryen:
(I call J3 traders "Long Traders, but that is MTU.)
Interesting (in a WHY?? sense).Originally posted by Andrew Boulton:
It came up in a discussion with Marc. He was thinking of using the second definition - ie Type A2/Far Trader is a generic term for enhanced performance traders - for T5, but I *think* I've talked him out of it.
With that I agree, or for any version for that matter. The whole one or two letter (and number though never included) "type" code could be scrapped with no loss whatsoever. Ship "class" by name works fine for defining a "type" (Beowulf class, everybody knows you mean a specific hull and configuration of performance and features). That's all that's needed. Please pass on to M.W.M. for us (well me at least) Andrew that he just drop the whole "type code" thing in favor of "class name" definitions. Heck we don't even need the somewhat arbitrary and ill defined Free, Far, Fast, etc., in the mix. Just lable the ship a Beowulf class and I'll run off and name the one I buy Sigurd or Arthur or IilleenOriginally posted by Liam Devlin:
Dunno if it's worth the "overhaul" for the amount of 'impact' to T5 fwiw.