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I understand how skills are increased, but what about the main stats like Strength, Education, etc. Is there a way to increase them in play? And what about increasing a character's Psychic Strength score? Is there a way?

The players are hoping to be able to engage in a little piracy. They have a civilian style ship (to get close) and want to be able to take down cargo ships with the small fighters. In my reading of the rules, their plan doesn't sound so hot, but I wanted to check here.

As a general thing, in your experience playing the game, how effective is the concept of a small one man space fighter in Mongoose Traveller space combat? Are they so underpowered as to not be worth the trouble? Do they do OK? They are just another valid option? Are they a must have for a...

So if a human is landing he has to roll but if the computer is landing then there is no roll? Are you sure this isn't just your houserule?

Do either of them give a bonus to the Pilot roll to land?

What program is being run to give the ship a roll? I didn't see a pilot program on the ship program list.

Can you explain a bit more? By sensors, do you mean using the sensors skill in a task chain to give a bonus to the roll? What do you mean by "flight computer"? What page is it on?

The ship operations section says that landing at a starport is at +2DM. If you take extra time you can get an additional +2. If you have, let's say, Pilot 1, then in total you're rolling at +5. But you roll a 2. 2+5=7, a failure. What happens?

Thanks. I have a much clearer understanding of all of this now. :)

But Agility is a thing that adds +DM to piloting checks (page 103). I see that, but the book gave the example of an Engineer (maneuver drive) roll allowing one to guess at the tonnage of a ship on page 54. I'm guessing they meant from looking at it through a portal or something.

Yeah, I read that in the book but was confused about whether it inteneded that to mean that it over rode the multiple action penalty rules or not. I mean, I understood that they COULD fire all the weapons. I just didn't know whether or not it was without penalty. But thanks to you guys, it's...

I think you have one too many zeroes on there. :) The 100 diameter zone for a planet 120,000 km in diameter would extend out to 120,000x100=12,000,000 km The +1 maneuver thing or the high yield laser thing aren't actually written on page 54, but I can see how that is what coulod be done...

First of all, thank you much for the reply. About the turrents, I want to confirm, so there ISN'T a multiple action penalty? It seems really strange to me that there isn't but officially there isn't, right?

I have a few questions from the main book. 1) Do vehicles use personal scale damage or spaceship scale damage? 1a) The G/Carrier on page 103 has a Fusion Gun. Is it the 16D6 damage personal scale weapon from page 101 or the ship scale weapon from page 112? 2) What skill is used to throw...

Thank you for the reply. I'll look for the past threads. :)