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On the space station I am working on, I assigned each person 4-dTons accommodation (they can be amalgamated into larger 8-dTon apartments for couples/families). I summed up all the common areas throughout the station and it came out to an additional 2.77-dTons of common area per person. I am...

Hi hopsnbaer, I was thinking they would be open 16 hours a day, with each person working an 8 hr shift. Like phavoc suggested, I think a lot of places would have vending machines and robots to provide 24 hour service. That could work. If you assume a store of 20-dTons, that is 5 staff, if the...

Hi phavoc, You make several good points. At this point, I haven't reached the point of figuring out what will be for sale in the commercial zone. I am currently just "grossing up" the space station to get an idea of how many people live there so I can calculate how many residential units I will...

Interesting ideas. What about 4-dTons per adult? That way, a family apartment would be 8-dTons, that could include two parents and two children. - Kerry

Hi all, I have been working on a space station design and have come up with another quandary. How many people work in a Commercial Zone? The rules detail tonnage and power requirements, but how many people work there. The best I could come up with is a store being 20-dTons and 2 employees...

I have decided to go with +50% common area on top of the allocation for accommodations listed from page 66 shown above. In addition, I am including some extra common space in all of the other areas of the space station, specifically the commercial zone, to which I added another +25% common area...

Thank you for all the references! However, I think the rules must have overlooked the requirement unless the smeltering process is completely automated. Even the mineral refining at TL 13 still needs 1 crew per 50 tons of equipment (which isn't many). - Kerry

Hi all, I am plowing my way through Space Station design and I have another question. On Page 69, it says: The description of smelters includes costs, power, input and output, but it does not list crew per ton of smelter. Can I assume the ratio would be the same as crew for the Mineral...

Hi all, I am looking for some clarification on the High Guard rules about common area tonnage on space stations. On page 66, it says: On page 65, it says: So, according to page 66, I would allocate 4 dTons per person for Medium Quality accommodations. That lines up with a stateroom, so...

I also bought it. I did a quick page through it. I am looking forward to giving it a thorough read. Traveller has always been very light on Zhodani material. It will be interesting to see more about them. In particular, I want to see how they handled the logistics of such a long expedition...

Refresh, refresh, refresh, Is it out yet? Is it out yet? . . . . . . Arrrrghhhhh, I can't wait!

So, Matt, are we expecting The Core Expedition this week????? - Kerry

One possibility is that the passenger decks have no access to the crew areas in flight. The passengers and stewards board from the ground into a deck with only external doors. That way, if pirates did infiltrate as passengers, they would not be able to access the bridge or engineering spaces...

My thought is that merchant vessels in Vargr space are well armed with crews ready to counter-board if attacked. This is like the age of piracy in the Caribbean. Trade didn't stop. The Spanish sailed galleon's full of gold right through the middle of the pirates. But every mechantman had to be...

I have always assumed that a Type S (or any standardized type) that are built in different shipyards will have variations by default. I use the example of the WWII Sherman tank. You can tell which factory a tank was built in by the data plaque, but also by small variations. There are also many...