Recent content by Geir

I just did all 11 Singularity vehicles, so we should be good.

Ahh... because I didn't fully commit to the concept? No wait! See below... Yes, and don't call me Shirley... Okay, my thinking was that closer in, surface volatiles would have eventually sublimated off and reached escape velocity under the higher temperature conditions. So further out, colder...

Okay, this is way too late since I have a hardback copy in my hands, but I final got around to looking at Adventure 4: The Lost Garden... and I just have to stop and scratch my head. I mean we have a lone Droyne with no particular caste who does not behave in any Droyne-like way, with a ship...

That's definitely an artifact of Traveller's mainworld generation system, so it's less than ideal, but a way to think about it is to distinguish a surface ice sheet, like a glacier, from the world's bulk composition, which might be a mix of ice and rock at the surface. So for the hydrographics...

Exactly. Because the DM is for there being a distinct bright, dark, and twilight side on the world. If the moon is in orbit around a planet, it should have a day/night cycle equal to its period of revolution around its planet. I suppose there is some chance that a world would be locked to a...

The math looks correct. Well, either moon is a vapor ring (though the individual bodies in the ring with smaller size should drastically reduce the world size, since you'd check for each grain) or the eccentricity needs to go to zero. Otherwise, even the most highly temperature resistant...

Great! My bad. I read across the table crooked and used Aab V's distance of 1.30 AU by mistake.

And another thought: Advantages and Disadvantages for sensors. Mostly thinking about prototypes and early prototypes, to make some sort of sensors possible on low tech spacecraft. Wouldn't give the higher tech ones DMs (well maybe DM+1 for two advantages), but things like longer detection...

Another thing that I think is just a misplaced sentence: p.72 Weapon Disadvantages: The sentence: "Not Applicable to turret weapons." applies 'Energy Inefficient', but makes much more sense if applied to 'Increased Size' instead. Not only does this avoid 1.2 ton turrets, but it matches the...

That axial tilt on the moon, may be exposing the problem, but I don't think it's you math, but another limitation of the system. If we break it apart, any world on its side and without an atmosphere is going to get you to 1.0 and 0 as luminosity modifiers, regardless of rotation. So simple...

Well, at least it doesn't give a negative value. What the model doesn't account for is all cooling time, so it is likely to never get that low, but, hey, it's a simplified model. You should probably consider 3K, (slightly above the background of about 2.72K) to be the lower limit. Most likely...

I think misunderstood my cross out. The old is still the current until the new is released. I'll ask Chris if he wants a copy of the more-or-less working spreadsheet (it's a formatting problem, not a computing problem).

Done with the old current VHB, I presume. Current version of the new spreadsheet is still 0.56, but there is at least one annoying bug I need to squash.

Batteries and Crew Sizes: found it the third place I looked. Imperial Navy p. 113-114. Needs to be a little scrunched for the Compendium, but... this Book is going to a be treasury hunt with my memory and mediocre organization skills racing my aging brain. Fun!

Batteries (not the power kind...) I'm supposed to be putting together an outline for the Compendium, which should include rules not in Core, Highguard, or the Companion... I think the battery rules are in Elements? They should be tied to crew size and I think I can be a little creative... once...