ERRATA - It Begins!
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captainjack23
Cosmic Mongoose
EDG said:
well, consider that it is possible to have a solid tech 2 society in hard arctic areas, although the lack of any summer period would be a crucial differnce. I'd suggest that as soon as a minimum of steam power (TL 4) is available, survival is possible in frozen environments. ; although it isn't symmetrical - low tech stuff works better against the lack of heat than against its overabundance. Still, one could imagine a ww2 level (TL 6 ?) dealing with extreme heat and actually, most of the tech for sub 200 degree F climate control can probably be assembled at tech 5.
Rikki Tikki Traveller
Cosmic Mongoose
EDG said:
I think the intent was that a Low Population world (POP 1-3) assumes Non-Industrial and doesn't need both classifications.
Similar to an Asteroid Belt automatically including the Vacuum Code.
captainjack23
Cosmic Mongoose
Rikki Tikki Traveller said:
As its a trade code, I'd say that if they describe the same trade need, they are redundant. Other wise not. Would a Va differ too much from an Asteroid in terms of imports/exports ? Possibly; zero G stuff at the least would sell better in belts; Ni and Lo, not sure. Possibly theres a critical level where a small colony becomes non-self sufficient as it grows ?
or, possibly its an error.
captainjack23 said:
This was my assumption, but I haven't looked at the trade tables to see the difference between Ni and Lo.
Speaking of trade codes, I ran into several worlds with A or higher atmosphere and no water when using the Space Opera world gen options. These would have come up as a Desert trade code, which didn't seem appropriate for the Exotic atmospheres. Should the Desert trade code require an atmosphere range of 2-9 instead of 2+?
Gruffty the Hiver
Banded Mongoose
Logically, yes, TC De should be as you describe, and atmospheres A to C with 0 hydro should be Fluid worlds.
But Marc doesn't see it that way.
But Marc doesn't see it that way.
In the LBBs, I seem to recall that it takes 20% to get a loan for a ship. We generated three Player Characters the other night and between us, we didn't even get half that. 1% per Ship Share definitely seems a small amount when you are trying to get a mortgage for a ship.Klaus Kipling said:
Baron_Vulk_Morden
Mongoose
-Daniel- said:
I don't know about that. Fans of Joss Wedon may remember a certain *pair* of ex-Army grunts who pooled their ship shares and bought a used far trader... a Firefly class one, at that...
Rikki Tikki Traveller said:
Or (if it uses antigrav,) B.O.B. or V.I.N.CENT from "the Black Hole", if one absolutely must...
alex_greene
Guest
It used to be 10%, not 1%. With 10%, 10 ship shares would have given you full ownership.
Yeah - 1% broke the purpose of having ship shares as benefits. 10% was reasonable as it allowed teams to start with a ship - which was the whole point.
Note, maybe the Benefits tables should have been changed to 2d6 - where the odds follow curves. Consider - a 1 term unpromoted merchant has a 1 in 6 chance of getting 5 Free Trader shares or..er..a blade!
Of course, the Old Ship's rules (Core pg 136) does not work with 10% shares - but this should be a simple adjustment to 2d6 shares per 10 years, with a major damage table for being sold at less than XX% (which could include a lucky option - like divorcee was decreed ship and is giving it away to spite ex-spouse.)
As to the downpayment - it is not directly mentioned in MGT, but 'total financed price equals 220%...' (Core pg 137) is 20% over the total it should be - so either it is wrong, a 20% deposit is required, or a 10% financed deposit.
Note, maybe the Benefits tables should have been changed to 2d6 - where the odds follow curves. Consider - a 1 term unpromoted merchant has a 1 in 6 chance of getting 5 Free Trader shares or..er..a blade!
Of course, the Old Ship's rules (Core pg 136) does not work with 10% shares - but this should be a simple adjustment to 2d6 shares per 10 years, with a major damage table for being sold at less than XX% (which could include a lucky option - like divorcee was decreed ship and is giving it away to spite ex-spouse.)
As to the downpayment - it is not directly mentioned in MGT, but 'total financed price equals 220%...' (Core pg 137) is 20% over the total it should be - so either it is wrong, a 20% deposit is required, or a 10% financed deposit.
As Infojunky stated... note that the Variations defined on pg 180 provide for a DM +1 in the Hard Science settings for Atmo 5, 6 or 8.
(FYI: Type 12 is trillions, described as a World-City. With a population density as high as Manila (densest?) the whole earth would have a population of about 22 trillion. If one ignores oceans, but counts all land (half of which is pretty inhospitable) that would be about 6.5 trillion.)
(FYI: Type 12 is trillions, described as a World-City. With a population density as high as Manila (densest?) the whole earth would have a population of about 22 trillion. If one ignores oceans, but counts all land (half of which is pretty inhospitable) that would be about 6.5 trillion.)
Rikki Tikki Traveller
Cosmic Mongoose
Yep, think Trantor or Corusant.
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