Recent content by phavoc

Yeah, I can see the conversation between us is going nowhere. There's no point in continuing to discuss this topic as you are stating things I didn't say. If I'm misinterpreting that, please provide the specific quotes to where I said those things because I don't believe I did. Now, how you...

I think dropping to a lower orbit requires you to slow down, not speed up. Once you hit a lower orbit you start encountering the atmosphere, which slows you down further. Gravity does the rest and pulls you into the bosom of it's grasp. Gravitics should be able to make you go faster or...

Barracks are suitable as temporary berthing space. A marine assigned to a ship for a 6 month deployment of said ship would be considered a passenger, albeit a longer-term one. I have no issue with them being assigned barracks. If a Marine is assigned as crew (not temporary) then they should...

We know that you can use anti-grav belts to move and not just levitate. And air/rafts and other grav vehicles are able to both lift and thrust using grav propulsion. It also may be a question of mass, though some of the grav vehicles are capable of much greater flight speeds than a ship...

You do realize that you made my point? Troops traveling for a year in barracks-style accommodations while crew get cabins? Mercenary troops relegated to being stacked like cordwood as their living quarters while other ships crew get 2 man cabins? Even for volunteers this will engender poor...

Here is where I think the rule goes off the rails: HG'22, p50: BARRACKS Ships designed to carry large numbers of troops tend to use barracks instead of staterooms. A barracks may only be used to carry soldiers, basic passengers or other personnel who will put up with cramped conditions. This...

Size of them would be variable, depending upon need and people carried. And also how they work (rack-em and stack-em and turn the lights off while they wait, or provide them actual seats and food/water/fresher facilities while they are awake the whole time). As they are escape craft making...

The lifeboat discussion (current and historical ones) usually devolves into two broad camps - the ones who say its' pointless and the ones who say it isn't. The game has a perverse idea that spaceships only travel in jump space and emerge 100D from the single world in a star system that has THE...

Escape pods have always been the space-equivalent of lifeboats. We know that terrestrial lifeboats are required as ships can sink and floating for long periods is not necessarily advised. In sci-fi fiction we've seen lifepods/escape pods in many movies and tv series. They've become a relative...

This is from the Battleship TX, circa 1940. I've visited the ship and in parts of it they had wire-like baskets hanging 5 tall from the ceiling. They also still had the attachment points for the actual hammocks they used to put up for people to sleep in. I don't think it's ever been an issue...

I believe pointing these things out is how things get corrected in the first place. I'm not sure why you feel the need to discourage others from posting their opinions. Disagreement is one thing, actively trying to dissuade someone from offering an opinion is another. Unless and until a...

"Either accept the rules as written or accept older versions are still usable and MgT is flawed. Or just house rule." All reasonable options. However, the point of purchasing rules from a publisher is so you don't have to create your own house rules for things. Same goes for settings and...

Thats not optimal, but helpful for longer voyages. The RPM would still be a problem, but possibly treatable with drugs. I dont know enough about the biology or pharmacology to know if you could treat it on a semi-permanent basis without causing other problems. And im sure there would be those...

I'm trying to recall what the gravity was supposed to be inside the main module. According to what I can find, the portion of the ship with the carousel is about 12m in diameter, and was supposed to rotate at 5 RPM - which is way too fast for normal comfort. I suppose if the astronauts were on...

I don't have HG'22 revision, but this post by AnotherDilbert caught my attention: HG'22, p92: MARINES AND SHIP’S TROOPS The terms marines and ship’s troops are sometimes used interchangeably. While the two share some of the same duties, there are significant differences in scope. Ship’s troops...