Steve, in NA could you change some of the names of stats to match scientific notation? For example right now in Aurora your "Engine Efficiency" stat is actually a consumption, though looking in the just posted Rules thread it seems like you may indeed have changed that to Consumption in NA.
You do, however have "Engine Power" which is actually a thrust. I noticed this because I was trying to calculate the power output of the engines in order to compare them to the power required to fire weapons, I was just wondering how much higher performance our engines would be than the rest of the craft.
BTW, looking at the latest Resolution:
Ve = 27070 km/s
Thrust = 22.5MN
Engine Energy: 3.04 E8 MW
Reactor Energy: 1.38 E3 MW
Engine/Reactor Ratio = 2.2E5
Now that seems like a pretty huge discrepancy, but rockets produce crap tons of energy, way more than could safely harnessed for any other purposes other than movement, so it's not the same as comparing a car or ship or an aircraft. We can compare it against another spacecraft though!
SpaceShuttle:
Ve = 4.423 km/s
Thrust = 6.51 MN
Engine Energy = 1.44 E4 MW
Reactor Energy = .021 MW
Engine/Reactor Ratio = 6.9E5
Wow, I was actually not expecting anywhere that close to a match. Obviously there is a huge amount of wiggle room for something like this, I was just hoping that the ratios would be within two orders of magnitude of each other, and they totally are, so sweet. (Of course comparing the ratio of specific power, or power/mass of the reactor/engine, would be more illuminating, but unnecessary IMO. I also can't do that anyways because I don't know the mass of the Resolution's Reactor and Engines.
Speaking of that rule page, I'm really glad to have it because I have been bouncing all around the different threads looking for your mechanics and design examples. Could you post the most recent variants of the Daring, Resolution, the Fighter, and those missiles you designed to the Rules thread as well?