Recent content by swordtart

It's like Theseus owned a Type A :)

Indeed and some systems will only need maintenance because of mothballing. As an example if you drive your car everyday a lead-acid 12v battery will self-maintain. If you take it out of the car and put it in storage you will need to trickle charge it periodically to ensure that it remains...

Car annual MOT is time based. Many vehicle service regimes are monthly checks, quarterly checks and annual checks or per X miles whichever is sooner. A lot of it will be checks rather than actual repairs. Traveller ships being run economically are going to jump every 2 weeks so for the majority...

Just out of interest where do you post this blog? I did try to find it but the only blog I get for Endie is for EVE Online.

I think Average Difficulty is not really clear, Routine is more so. Routine fits the old, if you have the skill you succeed methodology. Yep, it is like those model kits that have no instructions. You can piece it together, all the bits are there and once you get the hang of them you can get...

Sorry I didn't mean the discount for a standard design, I meant the 20% discount for it being 26-50 years old for example.

You don't have to reduce the maintenance cost of a cheaper ship. The monthly maintenance is set at the time the ship is built. If you get a 10% discount for some reason it reduces your mortgage but it won't make maintenance any cheaper. People sell ships for different prices for a number of...

I am seeing very few people agreeing that the current Traveller RAW are "broken". There are maybe two or three taking that view (and some being pretty unpleasant about it). Maybe we could have a quick poll to see who thinks the rules are broken and see if a significant number agree and think...

Ok. So what does Charted Space mean? Do we mean the physical systems defined e.g. on Travellermap (a literal interpretation of the words)? Is the stuff outside what has been "charted" still Traveller? In the beginning very little space was "Charted" and over time (and editions) we have had...

If "Traveller" is not defined by the rule set (and we have had lots of variations on that) and "Traveller" is not defined by the setting (and we have lots of those as well as Charted Space) then what actually makes the game "Traveller". I always assumed it was the 2d6 system in space plus the...

I dislike purely positive quirks as quirks are usually a function of an older and therefore cheaper ship. Double edged ones on the quirks table in the CRB like concealed smuggler compartments, which might cause trouble with customs and provide circumstantial benefit are less of an issue. The...

Active RADAR/LIDAR can indeed detect further than Passive RIDAR/LIDAR. Passive detectors require the object to be transmitting in the band you are detecting. Most ships as a function of their normal operation cannot help but transmit in the bands the passive detectors exploit (i.e. Visual...

To be fair I didn't specifically request your engagement, but fare thee well.

So it wasn't the D20 system that created the rise in popularity of the game (since every edition of D&D has had that game mechanic). When I am looking to identify a change to the outputs of a system I tend to look at what has changed in the system or the inputs to the system. Bounded accuracy...

I agree with your entire post, but I think this is the key point for me. I am not expecting Traveller to suddenly become the new D&D. I am hoping it will just bring a few more players into Traveller in some way and that will provide incentives for greater development by small publishers (I...