Or just say the cost is negligible: Budgeted in MegaCredits. Ship component costs are expressed in MegaCredits (and sometimes decimal fractions). Costs below MCr0.01 (about KCr10 or Cr10,000) are inconsequential and can be ignored. For example, a Maneuver Drive may cost MCr10 and the cost is import...

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Sat Mar 28, 2020 9:19 am

But not all, e.g. not astrogators or engineers.

You good use an astrogation droif from CSC for that.

ATV is basically garage facilities, plus cost of ATV; here it gets problematic, since when the module was external, access ramp and hatch would be part of and cost included to the module, and if it's entirely internal, either the module hatch has to open up and permit the ramp to extend, or an addi...

Thank you for your extensive research and insight given.

I will figure out a houserule then. Maybe splitting the cost of the modularization 50:50 between module and hull, making new modules having a cost of 50% of something plus all the components it contains.

This might be counter to the premise of Traveller, or perhaps I should just start reading the Judge Dredd supplement, but I would love a Campaign with a much much smaller setting scope and much more streamlined background reading. Like one system, or a localized multisystem adventure about a single...

Breakaway hulls need to have separate bridges, however. And not being streamlined is a bad thing for a smallcraft that's supposedly the workhorse of known space.

Presumably they are just ad hoc values taken from thin air. Note that this was for external modules with their own hull. Internal modules in MgT2 should be cheaper? 1) They are in fact the exact prices from Classic Traveller, I looked into the starter box from the early 80s and the German translati...

1. If the assumption is that unlike previous editions, cutter and other spacecraft modules are entirely internal, they can be configured anyway that the hatches are sized to fit in. 2. Don't double charge: the cost to add in modules goes with the spacecraft, the actual cost of constructing the modu...

Common sense should apply. Do you really think it was the intention for a 99 ton craft to mount 9 missile launchers when a 100 ton craft can only mount 3? The rule are badly written in some places. A small craft fixed mount hold a single weapon, not 3. Yes, I think that's the intention, because a w...

No, I do not believe so. The rules don't really say any thing more than: For example, a 100 ton hull normally costs MCr2. If 30% of the ship’s hull is to be made modular, then the cost of the hull is increased to MCr2.6, which is 130% of the original cost. This results in 30 tons of the ship’s comp...

I hope, I wasn't rude. The idea of so many dtons added just didn't strike me as likely, given that CT and MgT always had pop-up mounts at one dton. I'm not 100 percent sure on barbettes, though. They're certainly described as being "basically heavy turrets". But I'm not sure that relates to "can hav...

No, one turret comes in at 1 dton. And the pop-up modification costs another dton.

But isn't that the base cost you have to pay for the Modular Cutter itself to be able to be modular? Where in HG2 does it say what the modules themselves cost before adding stuff?

Fellow Travellers, I was thinking about creating new modules for the Modular Cutter in my campaign and creating other modular designs as well. At some point, I figured out that I have no idea how the prices for the basic three MC modules came about. Other than that they seem to be enculturated from ...

Regarding the sensor operators, one could also borrow from the chapter on Space Stations and use "General Crew" to operate sensors. In fact, I think the crew rewuirements of ships severely lack an entry for general crew that use a profession ("Spacer/Crewmember" from the Companion comes to mind) to ...

Perhaps the sensor operators should be drawn from the legions of engineers and gunners? Maybe officers and gunners? Engineers and maintenance seem not to be involved in sensor operations. That seems to be the domain of gunners, since most sensor operations are relevant for generating targeting solu...

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I just did the Safari ship and it uses the wrong tonnage (and thus price, too) for the j-drive. 15 Dt and MCr 22.5 looks correct to me? 200 Dton × 2.5% × 2 + 5 = 15 Dton. See thread Updated High Guard Ships . Hmm, as of today, I cannot recreate the error I spotted. I retract my statement. I came up...

File it under the big pile of "we need a new (PDF) edition / printing of High Guard. We'll commence playing on Friday, 13th of March and I will not use ships as printed at all. I recalculate each and every ship by hand, even the errors collected here in the forum are not a complete list. I just did ...

It has been about hydrogen displacement tons for decades now. One ton(ne) of hydrogen at normal atmospheric pressure for a volume of around 14 m³. The idea seemed to be that volume is something that is easier to consistently integrate into the game via deckplans etc. where as weight is pretty much u...