Recent content by hhawk

What are they?

I usually turn off sounds in my web browser for this reason.

Well, I was referring to the many image links that link directly to the pictures on the thread (i.e. cross linking). The URL that was posted at the beginning was fine. It was my opinion that the real concern was about links to images without a link to the actually page.

It is called cross-linking ,and it can be bad because the image appears (taking the bandwidth that the artist paid for) and does not appear it in its original format.

I second this question. It would be useful to know which books to be expecting in the future.

I thought that jump-1 happened to be limited to a parsec, which then a parsec like unit was made for the map ;-p

Are there any guidelines for developing Traveller software?

Maybe they are a colony of uplifted rats ;-p

Imagines, PC's getting ready to repeal the Imperials with cutlasses... then their airlock door gets blasted open by a fusion gun, the surviving PC's surrender.

Unless you are trying to destroy the ship ;-p A fast shuttle filled with battle dress wearing Marines to burn holes through the ship's hull seems like an appropriate time to encounter battle dress armor in space combat. I seem to remember a Challenge article about how rare capital ship...

What MgT needs is a good system for generating NPC based on archetypes. I want to generate I nice booklet of possible NPC (with random names and organize the lists by archetype. That way when an encounter happens I just flip to the right page and circle the character name and use their stats...

I have some ideas on how to implement the table too ;-p Use function references in the table to invoke the proper events on the character object. Need to modify the advancement DM for the next advancement roll add a IncAdvDM(4) reference in the table data ;-p It seems like a good job for...

Well, I figure that for important communication types that can use a standard markup language like HTML to put stuff in human readable format. The AI translators can help with that.

It is my feeling that banks being the risk adverse organizations that are (at least in theory) would require that the account balance is a certain percentage of the mortgage value. If you balance drop below a certain amount they either start looking for you before you own them money, or they...

Where do these newcomers get these tools and sector files? I am still looking for a good source of SEC files. If someone could provide me with information on where to get most SEC files, I could probably make an viewing utility that uses CSV. One standard for data transfer with spreadsheets...