Re: Places: Dragon Rock Map

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:30:55 -0000, David Shepheard
<david_shepheard@???????.com> wrote:
>You don't even need to use poles to get through as the minimum distances
between asteroids
>are described as 100 feet. All you need to do is avoid using larger ships,
that can't get
>through the gaps.
>
>From what I understand real pirates didn't really use large ships much.
They usually used
>smaller ships that were faster than the ships they wanted to attack.

i don´t think it makes sense for pirates to use ships significantly smaller
than the ones of merchants: where would you stuff the loot? the purpose of
piracy is (most often, at least) to capture booty, and this stuff must be
hauled off to someone. here pirates and merchants both have to obey to
the "rules of cargo space" (couldn´t find a better term...). sure, pirates
might only chose the most valuable things or the cargo with the
highest "value per ton"- ratio, but on the other hand, they might prefer
taking things that are easiest to sell, or can not be traced back to them,
or...


i think i "typical" pirate ship should have approximately in the same size
than an average merchant ship. ...or do i miss something?