Drive sizes
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Rikki Tikki Traveller
Cosmic Mongoose
I use Drive letters for ships under 2000 tons and percentages for ships over 2000 tons.
I use the A,B,C,D, ect drives as standard "off the shelf" models. With wide spread avaiable repair and maintance supplies.
High Guard % drives and drive modifacations for the most part are custom built for a class of ship. While they use many of the same subparts, the biger drives are harder to get repair parts for.
High Guard % drives and drive modifacations for the most part are custom built for a class of ship. While they use many of the same subparts, the biger drives are harder to get repair parts for.
Yes. Kinda. Some of the choices made in the MGT edition drive me bonkers so I change them when I come across them. Frequently when designing ships this involves deconstructing and rewriting components to fit my needs...
For RPG use the rules in the book are just rough guidelines, do what you need to fit your game.
I gleefully mix and match stuff from many sources, I try not to obsess with the niggling details (mostly that is what I try, usually with some success, but there are those days).
For RPG use the rules in the book are just rough guidelines, do what you need to fit your game.
I gleefully mix and match stuff from many sources, I try not to obsess with the niggling details (mostly that is what I try, usually with some success, but there are those days).
GypsyComet
Emperor Mongoose
Drives reach their minimum sizes relative to hull size at or before 2000 tons. The letter drives don't follow a smooth progression through ALL the hull sizes up to 2000 tons because they *are* "off the shelf" drives, and are sized to follow a curve for the even-hundreds hull sizes in most cases.
If you wanted to use the HG percentages all the way down to 100 tons you certainly could. Make a note somewhere, both to yourself and to anyone else reading your stuff, that this is what you did. Especially if you end up putting your campaign on the web. Nothing frustrates those using web resources more than discovering the hard way that different assumptions are being used in different places.
If you wanted to use the HG percentages all the way down to 100 tons you certainly could. Make a note somewhere, both to yourself and to anyone else reading your stuff, that this is what you did. Especially if you end up putting your campaign on the web. Nothing frustrates those using web resources more than discovering the hard way that different assumptions are being used in different places.
At least the HG Capital ship tonnage is seperate from the range of the TMB - however the small craft design overlaps at 100 and there is quite a disparity on drive sizes there :?
For instance - at 100 ton a Thurst-6 takes only 5 tons in TMB, but as a smallcraft requires a minimum of 17 tons (at ~3x the cost) for Gravitic-M Drives!
While a non-linear (curve) makes a certain amount of sense, disparities are harder to rationalize...
It would have been nice if such things were simply stated as equations with handy tables available for quick reference (of course - these tables would need to be made by computer and checked and the equations formatted well - not sure the editing would have handled this added work well, without introducing more errata :wink: )
For instance - at 100 ton a Thurst-6 takes only 5 tons in TMB, but as a smallcraft requires a minimum of 17 tons (at ~3x the cost) for Gravitic-M Drives!
While a non-linear (curve) makes a certain amount of sense, disparities are harder to rationalize...
It would have been nice if such things were simply stated as equations with handy tables available for quick reference (of course - these tables would need to be made by computer and checked and the equations formatted well - not sure the editing would have handled this added work well, without introducing more errata :wink: )
