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RIf low tech worlds buy lots of imports, they are going to be having constant trade balance problems. With a unified currency, this will...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Drop Tanks... Back From the Dead?.Honestly, the whole tow cable does seem a bit unnecessary. Any docked ships can do the thing, and while the airlock being along the line...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Crew Salaries.Correct, but it all compounds. If it's a hasty jump within 100D (which was the scenario I suggested), it does make a difference as to...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Crew Salaries.Well, the thing is that it's only an automatic job under ideal conditions. Once you get into time pressure situations it suddenly...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Drop Tanks... Back From the Dead?.Any docked ship can be considered external cargo, though. Or the two spacecraft can consider each other to be external cargo, depending...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Drop Tanks... Back From the Dead?.As far as the venerable jump net is concerned (first presented in CT Supplement 9, you can hardly blame Mongoose for including it), it's...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Not a good look.Give Matt credit - he did think they corrected it and IS trying to get it sorted. But if the image file is out there in the wild...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Drop Tanks... Back From the Dead?.Towing a spaceship can work, but it won't be like towing a car, boat or glider. You'd attach and apply thust as long as needed, but to...
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R(I made the number up - but let's play...) Original 77 no setting - jump torpedos (first casualty of the reality wars) 1st war 78 LBB:4...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Starship operations reality vs expectations.The previous paragraph (pp157-8) mentions the possibility that the passage of time inside the jump could be so long that all their...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Crew Salaries.I just take it as a task that may take a more variable amount of time than usual. Essentially the series of failed rolls are just adding...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Crew Salaries.Mongoose doesn't seem to explicitly mention many situations where lack of actual skill prevents even an attempt at a task, but it was a...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Crew Salaries."Astrographer? No, silly... I'm an Astrologer! You must have misread my resume. Now, where are my star charts...?"
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Rrinku replied to the thread Drop Tanks... Back From the Dead?.For a M-Drive ferry to be justified it would need to get the ship to port significantly faster than the ship could manage on its own...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Crew Salaries.An average ship is Jump-1 or Jump-2. Those will employ the average Astrogators that can't get jobs on the J-3 and J-4 ships, which will...
