Let me pause here for a moment and note that those two basic schemes I came up with are... the first two basic schemes I came up with. I'm not so much tied to those specific ones (although in general I like the accel drive vs speed drive contrast I came up with) so much as demonstrating ways to tune things. One way or another I would like something figured out; we should have before to a greater extent than we did, because it really does define how things "feel"; longer travel distances are more frontier-ey with more reason to have separate entities spring up, IMO.
So backing up... how long do people think it should take to get places? Say Earth to Mars and Earth to Jupiter... and what other criteria should things have? HRogge figured out right there that with the back of the envelope proposals I came up with, things wouldn't hit their top speeds in the inner system on speed drives, and that may not feel right.
So backing up... how long do people think it should take to get places? Say Earth to Mars and Earth to Jupiter... and what other criteria should things have? HRogge figured out right there that with the back of the envelope proposals I came up with, things wouldn't hit their top speeds in the inner system on speed drives, and that may not feel right.