Ask MongooseMatt ANYTHING!!!

[Terry Mixon]

Summary of questions asked and @MongooseMatt's (or someone else officially with Mongoose)'s response to them:

1. Is the MCr1 price of an emergency low berth in High Guard 2022 Update a typo? Previous editions call for KCr100.

[Status May 10, 2025: Research Ongoing]

[From @MongooseMatt: Mongoose is looking into this and will get back to us with an answer.]

2. Will Mongoose consider using KCr, BCr, TCr, and commas ( or anything, really) separation to make large numbers readable?

[Status May 6, 2025: Answered]

[From @MongooseMatt: They are considering KCr and BCr may have already been used.]

3. Why persist with a hydrogen filled jump bubble when: 1. it is based on very dodgy fanon and 2. it is contradicted by collectors and batteries in both the setting and the High Guard rules themselves.

[Status May 10, 2025: Answered]

[From @MongooseMatt: Mongoose wishes to leave these details up to referees without further clarification.]

4. Are single occupancy staterooms the default in Mongoose Traveller or double occupancy? Do the leaders (officers) go single or are they also double occupancy?

[Status May 11, 2025: Answered]

[From @MongooseMatt: There is no default assumption for staterooms. Some high ranking officers will be in singles (captain, executive officer, chief engineer?) and the rest will double up.]

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Okay, not really anything, but when we post questions about the rules or potential typos in the feedback area, we often don't receive a response, so I'm creating this thread in the hopes of getting some response to questions we have, even if it is "we're looking at that" or some such.

I'll kick this off with a question I posted a few days ago. The emergency low berths in High Guard 2022 Update are listed at MC1 a pop. Seems real pricy since Mongoose 1e and all the previous versions of Traveller we checked had it being KCr100. In Mongoose 1e, it was listed as MCr.1 and we suspect a typo. Can we get some clartity on that so we can update the starship build sheet to reflect what we suspect if we're right? Thanks.

Also, allow me to suggest that adding KCr, BCr (or GCr to please @Geir), and TCr to your repertoire would be really helpful and would minimize the complaints about not having comma separation in your big numbers, too.

And sorry for all the wild AMA questions you're about to get @MongooseMatt.

 

[Sigtrygg]

I hope they don't use KCr, the correct way to write kilocredit would be kCr

BCr should really be GCr, oddly TCr is fine as is meaning trillion or 10¹²

I have a question. Why persist with a hydrogen filled jump bubble when:
1. it is based on very dodgy fanon
2. it is contradicted by collectors and batteries in both the setting and the High Guard rules themselves.

 

[Terry Mixon]

I hope they don't use KCr, the correct way to write kilocredit would be kCr

BCr should really be GCr, oddly TCr is fine as is meaning trillion or 10¹²

I have a question. Why persist with a hydrogen filled jump bubble when:
1. it is based on very dodgy fanon
2. it is contradicted by collectors and batteries in both the setting and the High Guard rules themselves.

I could live with GCR, though it sounds weird. One would acclimatize. Anything is better than just using MCr and long numbers with no separation.

 

[MongooseMatt]

We will indeed be looking at the KCr!

 

[Sigtrygg]

KCr no
kCr yes
the prefix for kilo is k not K.

 

[Condottiere]

decicredits
centicredits
millicredits

 

[Terry Mixon]

KCr no
kCr yes
the prefix for kilo is k not K.

Reality aside, it should match the use of MCr. If I have to accept GCr, give my OCD some slack.

 

[MongooseMatt]

KCr no
kCr yes
the prefix for kilo is k not K.

Probably the way it did indeed start - but as things spread across Charted Space, as with language, usage becomes the final arbiter. Once advertising gets its hands on low, low offers of multi-thousand Credit offers, or the finance industry starts promising big returns, you can bet that k is going to get really big.

They are not trying to be scientifically accurate in their terminology. People will go with what feels right.

 

[Sigtrygg]

Reality aside, it should match the use of MCr. If I have to accept GCr, give my OCD some slack.

No, because that introduces yet another imprecisity...

 

[Sigtrygg]

Probably the way it did indeed start - but as things spread across Charted Space, as with language, usage becomes the final arbiter. Once advertising gets its hands on low, low offers of multi-thousand Credit offers, or the finance industry starts promising big returns, you can bet that k is going to get really big.

They are not trying to be scientifically accurate in their terminology. People will go with what feels right.

So the game that gave the suvat equations to impressionable youth is now going to ignore science...

 

[Varulv]

KCr, the almighty Kelvin Credit.

 

[MongooseMatt]

No, because that introduces yet another imprecisity...

Charted Space is not a perfect place.

 

[Sigtrygg]

Nor is it internally consistent with its rules; any feedback on the hydrogen filled bubble, collector, battery discussion?

 

[Terry Mixon]

Nor is it internally consistent with its rules; any feedback on the hydrogen filled bubble, collector, battery discussion?

Or the seemingly overpriced emergency low berths?

 

[Condottiere]

Until you actually need them.

 

[WHULorigan]

decicredits
centicredits
millicredits

decicredits (dCr)
centicredits (cCr)
millicredits (mCr)

And don't forget:

• The Microcredit (µCr): Anciently known as the Mite (or Lepton to the Greeks).
  • It's what you bring in hard currency to pay the assayer (But it's all I've got . . . )

 

[Condottiere]

Deflationwise, it's supposedly one to five with the current greenbux.

Possibly, one to six now.

So, one cent is 0.002 credits.

In terms of retail, I don't think it would go beyond one thousandths.

 

[Limpin Legin]

Currency is topsy turvy as u write unit before the value and then pronounce value before unit.

For example, MCr5 is pronounced "5 million credits" . Same in any currency.

Different with computer storage capacities: 40 GB is pronounced as written, ie "40 gigabytes ".

But k can appear as prefix or suffix. Eg, $40k is pronounced "40 thousand dollars" and Warhammer 40k is pronounced as written. Same with other SI units.

T can mean Trillion or Tera although Tera is a prefix meaning Trillion. So it makes no difference until you start accepting that Tr can also mean Trillion.

 

[Arkathan]

Did we get an answer on where the decimal point was intended to go on Emergency Low Berths?
KCr100
or
MCr1.00

 

[Terry Mixon]

Did we get an answer on where the decimal point was intended to go on Emergency Low Berths?
KCr100
or
MCr1.00

We did not. @MongooseMatt? Someone? It’s not a rules call, just a simple yes or no about it being a typo.

Can we get an answer? Almost any answer is fine: Yes, No, We’re consulting the oracle, Humans were never meant to know, or almost anything else. It’s good to know we aren’t just being ignored when we ask for a straightforward clarification of it being correct or not.