Ask MongooseMatt ANYTHING!!!

[Terry Mixon]

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.

 

[Terry Mixon]

@MongooseMatt or @paltrysum, I have a question about the no cost airlocks that one can get free for every hundred tons. The given assumption seems to be that they don't require tonnage, which makes no sense to me. They take up space on the deck plans and they are not 0zero size, so they should require the 2 tons of space of a standard airlock.

To ask the question clearly, does a no cost airlock take up 2 tons of the ship's tonnage allotment or is it a calorie-free sandwich? Or, perhaps as @Vormaerin suggested, the free airlock is assumed to be lumped with corridors and other assumed tonnage?

 

[MongooseMatt]

To ask the question clearly, does a no cost airlock take up 2 tons of the ship's tonnage allotment or is it a calorie-free sandwich? Or, perhaps as @Vormaerin suggested, the free airlock is assumed to be lumped with corridors and other assumed tonnage?

Actually, given that we specifically mention that there is 10% 'wiggle' room on deck plans, due to design and building differences... this will be very much up to you and, indeed, you may find it useful to decide on a ship-by-ship basis.