why the hard limits on vehciles speeds?

[themink]

When building a vehicle, each improvement in streamlining increases the "steepness" of going over a particular limit:

Unstreamlined 320kph -1 per 30kph over
Partial Streamlined 600kph -1 per 20kph over
Streamlined 800kph -1 per 30kph over
Airframe 1100kph -1 per 10kph over

So any craft, no matter it's streamlining is going to be virtually unmanagable above 1400kph (Call it Mach2) - any bank is a DC 35

If the extra minus 1 per was introduced at increasing kph rather than decreasing, that would encourage a larger spread of top speeds. (a -1 per 10% over the safe speed would be a simpler rule and seems to make more sense to me)

Starships have a much higher "safe" speed when they have an Airframe - is this intentional? (G6 airframe can cruise at 4,425 kph)

 

[DrSkull]

Just a guess, but all spacecraft have starship-grade computers installed, so they have superior handling?

 

[themink]

Grav tanks have starship grade computers on them as well (They need to be able to shoot spaceships down when they try to drop rocks on the troops)

 

[tjoneslo]

I saw this as well, and found the max speed of Mach 1 to be a little limiting. So I added two chassis modifiers for aircraft and grav Vehicles: Supersonic (x8 cost, 1% of frame size, 2500kph or Mach 2, -1/50kph), and hypersonic (x10 cost, 5% of frame size, 4800kph or Mach 4, -1/50kph).