Condottiere
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Deluxe means no backdoors, to tweak the lottery odds.
Advanced Low Berth?
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Geir
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Sorry, I imagined that as a physical back door... so you could exit the berth without having to interact with the lowly... low passengers.
Terry Mixon
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Using the Robot Handbook design sheet, I have created a new advanced low berth: the low berth cluster. It fits in a 1-ton spot like an emergency low berth, but has three full sized low berths built into it. The single robotic brain controlling the whole thing make it almost the cost of two regular low berths of the same make. A free person! Who doesn't like free money? Here they are:
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These are making far more sense economically. Many are cheaper per passenger than buying conventional low berths and allowing an extra passenger per DTon dedicated to them means your Cr/DTon increases so even spending a little more per passenger capacity for the hardware makes economic sense.
They don't have the same savour of desperation as Emergency Low Berths and passengers don't need to share the same revival roll as the brain can revive people with as much care as it calculates it needs based on their endurance ensuring the vast majority need not fear default death*.
I would certainly be including banks of the Mixon Basic or Advanced versions freeing up the designated Medic/Droid to cover the really vulnerable, or (gasp) eliminating them entirely!
Simply swapping them out in the Far Trader for example would increase your passenger potential by 50% or allow 3 slots for your crew to use in extremis with only marginal additional capital expenditure, or you could keep the capacity, save some capital and free up a DTon for Cargo or ships systems. The fact they are also autodocs is a bonus. You might arrive more healthy than you left. This might be a selling point in itself - revitalising holiday cruises for the same price as mere transit with some (sniff) OTHER carriers.
What is not to like
Good work.
* Planned death and accidental death due to equipment malfunction etc. are of course still an option
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Terry Mixon
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Thanks! It totally slipped past me that it was also an autodoc. Tunnel vision. That does make them even better.These are making far more sense economically. Many are cheaper per passenger than buying conventional low berths and allowing an extra passenger per DTon dedicated to them means your Cr/DTon increases so even spending a little more per passenger capacity for the hardware makes economic sense.
They don't have the same savour of desperation as Emergency Low Berths and passengers don't need to share the same revival roll as the brain can revive people with as much care as it calculates it needs based on their endurance ensuring the vast majority need not fear default death*.
I would certainly be including banks of the Mixon Basic or Advanced versions freeing up the designated Medic/Droid to cover the really vulnerable, or (gasp) eliminating them entirely!
Simply swapping them out in the Far Trader for example would increase your passenger potential by 50% or allow 3 slots for your crew to use in extremis with only marginal additional capital expenditure, or you could keep the capacity, save some capital and free up a DTon for Cargo or ships systems. The fact they are also autodocs is a bonus. You might arrive more healthy than you left. This might be a selling point in itself - revitalising holiday cruises for the same price as mere transit with some (sniff) OTHER carriers.
What is not to like
Good work.
* Planned death and accidental death due to equipment malfunction etc. are of course still an option
MasterGwydion
Emperor Mongoose
In all honesty, these would be the new standard, and should be on all new designs in all new books. It just doesn't make financial sense to use the "original low berths" as opposed to these new low berths.
Terry Mixon
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Look for these and other innovative technologies from MixCorp, the place where new ideas flourish.
As the financial consultant to MixCorp, can I recommend replacing those TL8 basic brains with TL10 ones in the most basic model. It will save us KCr16 per unit and the unit needs to be TL10 anyway because of the medical chamber. The extra point of intelligence won't make any difference but I am sure the sales team can put a positive spin on it.
The sales analyst tell me that dropping the price below the KCr100 point has a disproportionately beneficial impact on sales.
The sales analyst tell me that dropping the price below the KCr100 point has a disproportionately beneficial impact on sales.
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
Done and image updated. Thanks.As the financial consultant to MixCorp, can I recommend replacing those TL8 basic brains with TL10 ones in the most basic model. It will save us KCr16 per unit and the unit needs to be TL10 anyway because of the medical chamber. The extra point of intelligence won't make any difference but I am sure the sales team can put a positive spin on it.
The sales analyst tell me that dropping the price below the KCr100 point has a disproportionately beneficial impact on sales.
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
Okay, so I've been obsessing over tidying up MixCorp's product low berth line. In doing so, I renamed the products AutoBerths to reflect their dual AutoDoc and Low Berth capability, and for brand identity, of course.
In doing so, I realized that what I was labeling as emergency units were actually "compact" units as each person still had their own tube. Compact as in everyone was stuffed inside a tube that was smaller than the usual berths. The usual 50-slot medical chambers are for humans massing up to 150 kilograms (330 lbs.). A medical chamber sized for an adult human occupant requires a minimum of 32 slots, so it will hold 2/3 (.64 to be precise) of the full-sized chamber capacity or, in other words, most people.
So, while I kept that line, I relabeled them as "compact units" and then made emergency units using one big (though not really big enough) chamber that can hold FIVE average adult human occupants (even if just barely!). That will be a key selling point, I'm sure.
Also, I discovered that a medikit is good for covering up to 8 ambulatory crew and passengers, so I believe one will be good for the number of sophants asleep in the tubes, allowing me to drop the extra ones. The crew will be responsible for topping them off as needed.
I also eliminated one model and redesignated the units as basic, improved, enhanced, advanced, and superior like most rankings in Traveller. As this isn't the Advanced Low Berth in the Robot Handbook, but a different beast entirely, I'm fine with that distinction.
To be sure I had the AutoDoc functionality, I added a bioreaction chamber to grow tissue as needed. One thing missing is vacuum protection (it was pricy enough to make these less competitive). The original units I made didn't have it either, so it's not like I'm removing it now, just not adding it. The exception are the emergency units. If you're using them, you need the extra protection for sure.
MixCorp advises its customers to take steps to protect their passengers by vacuum proofing the compartments in which these units are housed. MixCorp is not responsible for injuries or deaths due to the improper housing of these units.
With that done, I updated the profit/loss charts. Here is the one with them laid out in order of product line.
And here they are in order of profitability. No profit is listed for the emergency units as they are not meant to generate revenue. If someone were to use them during normal operations, well, that's not MixCorp's responsibility.
In doing so, I realized that what I was labeling as emergency units were actually "compact" units as each person still had their own tube. Compact as in everyone was stuffed inside a tube that was smaller than the usual berths. The usual 50-slot medical chambers are for humans massing up to 150 kilograms (330 lbs.). A medical chamber sized for an adult human occupant requires a minimum of 32 slots, so it will hold 2/3 (.64 to be precise) of the full-sized chamber capacity or, in other words, most people.
So, while I kept that line, I relabeled them as "compact units" and then made emergency units using one big (though not really big enough) chamber that can hold FIVE average adult human occupants (even if just barely!). That will be a key selling point, I'm sure.
Also, I discovered that a medikit is good for covering up to 8 ambulatory crew and passengers, so I believe one will be good for the number of sophants asleep in the tubes, allowing me to drop the extra ones. The crew will be responsible for topping them off as needed.
I also eliminated one model and redesignated the units as basic, improved, enhanced, advanced, and superior like most rankings in Traveller. As this isn't the Advanced Low Berth in the Robot Handbook, but a different beast entirely, I'm fine with that distinction.
To be sure I had the AutoDoc functionality, I added a bioreaction chamber to grow tissue as needed. One thing missing is vacuum protection (it was pricy enough to make these less competitive). The original units I made didn't have it either, so it's not like I'm removing it now, just not adding it. The exception are the emergency units. If you're using them, you need the extra protection for sure.
MixCorp advises its customers to take steps to protect their passengers by vacuum proofing the compartments in which these units are housed. MixCorp is not responsible for injuries or deaths due to the improper housing of these units.
With that done, I updated the profit/loss charts. Here is the one with them laid out in order of product line.
And here they are in order of profitability. No profit is listed for the emergency units as they are not meant to generate revenue. If someone were to use them during normal operations, well, that's not MixCorp's responsibility.
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Terry Mixon
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The single occupant AutoBerths.
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Terry Mixon
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The three-person AutoBerth Clusters.
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Terry Mixon
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The four-person clusters (compact).
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Terry Mixon
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The five-person emergency AutoBerths. Unlike the rest, these are vacuum rated.
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