Recent content by swordtart

First we need to decide we want to do it. Then decide how much we want to pay to do it and what other constraints apply. Then we can start deciding on how we are going to do it within those constraints. There is no theoretical or technological issue UNTIL we establish those criteria. We will...

Is all this a result of lack of technology or a lack of will or leadership? We don't need to these things at the moment and the tragedy of the commons indicates that if I personally don't need it I won't do anything about it (including voting for leaders that will). We know there are vast...

"So are these Titan burgers really big?" "No, just the regular size." "Why are they called that then?" "Well, you know what a beef burger is?" "Yeah so...?" "Heh, Funny story, I'll tell you once you have eaten."

We already mostly have this. Just look at the ingredients in you prepackaged food. It is mostly up of generic food powders and concentrates that can be stored for years. It doesn't make you post scarcity unless the manufacturer gives it away for free. If anything they have allowed even greater...

Fabricators still require feedstock. We are told you can make things for maybe as low.as 10% of their base cost, not for free. We could be post scarcity for food now. It doesn't prevent famine if that food remains in a warehouse.or in the hands of a warlord. The game assumes trade. Even...

I am stepping away from the subject. I don't want to cross the forum event horizon.

If you are had a way of keeping the particle beams required to generate those Black Holes focussed along the path of the laser beam they why would you need the Black Holes? What is a "micro" black hole. You can't get much more "Micro" than a singularity. Do you mean black holes with a...

Indeed. If they did then everything in the universe would be be subject to infinite gravitational pull and would be infinitely accelerated towards them and the universe would cease to exist in 1/infinity seconds. Even if we concede that a Black Hole could have very high gravitational pull, it...

If you are not at the starport then you don't have access to the port facilities generally. You dock at the port to use the facilities, not because you need a parking slot. If you are just going to park away from the main world (maybe refuelling at the gas giant) and just use small craft to...

Trade is a two-way process. You can't sell something if the other party has nothing to buy it with. Even if it is cheaper to produce product X locally, it might be more economical to import it from somewhere else if that enables you to export something you can make even cheaper to them. Both...

I tend to assume that in system stuff is done by small craft - mainly all those surplus Navy Ships Boats. At 5G even a far gas giant is only 3 days away. The interior is probably re-jigged with maybe a barracks style stateroom attached to the bridge in place of the fresher and ships locker as a...

That is possible, but it may be a function of the ability to get a mortgage. We treat players as a special case and just make it possible for them to get a ship. In reality there should be quite a few hoops to jump though before the bank hands over MCr40-50 to some Rando. Being tied to a nice...

Personally I'd use the the table unchanged as much as possible. For 1. the second section covers if the equipment already has the unreliable trait (such as an Early Prototype) and you roll it a second time. It is not about using the equipment after it has already triggered the unreliability...

That is my model, with some break bulk, speculation and smuggling on the side depending on the level of legitimacy and competence of the crew. Free Traders can make enough money purely on moving stuff between the hubs and the lesser ports. They may well have advance local contracts in place and...

As a tangent, I think that solo gaming can also help develop your "fairness" acumen. When playing with others the interesting bits are in the challenges and for those to work they have to be fair challenges and allow players to choose their own risk v return level to a degree. In solo play you...