For Anyone Designing a Yacht...

[Mithras]

I stumbled upon this awesome design while Googling for photos of 'starship staterooms'.

It is a wonderful marine yachet, with 5 crew and 5 staterooms, with lots of features, including detailed photos and deckplans. You can hire this thing out. And it comes witth jet skis and its own helicopter (read: ships launch and ATV!). Cost $100,000 per week. Check it out:

http://www.charterbrochure.com/STARSHIP/

 

[BP]

Thanks for sharing!

I find hotels and cruise ship sites provide a lot of props/inspiration...

I find it humours that this site really seems to emphasise the digital entertaiment systems! For $100,000 a week - maybe they could spring for HD and 32" screens :lol:

 

[alex_greene]

Thanks for sharing!

I find hotels and cruise ship sites provide a lot of props/inspiration...

I find it humours that this site really seems to emphasise the digital entertaiment systems! For $100,000 a week - maybe they could spring for HD and 32" screens :lol:

For 100k a week, they could spring for a live band and dancing girls ...

 

[Rex]

I've got my fingers crossed for some MGT remakes of some of the great Classic Traveller modules, that dealt mostly, with just the Ship. Like Broadsword, etc ......

Then, one could take the Nobles Yacht, arguably one of the more (as my players have said) Lamest Mustering Out benift's, can I have a Scout Ship? ever sort of things......

Then, such lavish detail can be added in scores of pages for a Yacht book .....probably be a nice PDF project for one of the non luddites out there.

~Rex

 

[BP]

For 100k a week, they could spring for a live band and dancing girls ...

Add complementary drinks and a boom box - and they can skip the live band! :lol:

 

[Mithras]

Yeah, the Traveller Yacht Type Y reads like a brick, looks like a brick .... I've currently been using a cargo/passenger version of the Safari ship I found on the web as a yacht, but am currently utilising it as a government transport ship for couriers, ambassadors, politicians etc, much like the US C-40B http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-40_Clipper.

Then, one could take the Nobles Yacht, arguably one of the more (as my players have said) Lamest Mustering Out benift's, can I have a Scout Ship? ever sort of things......

 

[rust]

d.b. gamedesign's Venture Class Frontier Courier also can be used as a
nice yacht, and the stats are for Mongoose Traveller.

 

[Cyphr]

There has been a Yacht based on the 600dton Typ-M Merchant (J3/M1) in the PDF about the ship by Loren K. Wiseman (including stats for various versions and deckplans). One or two 100dton Yachts (based on a Typ-S) are in GT:Nobles. That book also has an 800dton "Courier" that's often used by Nobles.

100 dton Scout Yacht is one of my favorites small starships. I think this design influence me to develop several Type S variants for fun and campaign needs.


Thanks for the link Mithras. The layout and photos are very good for ideas.

For another inspiration, check this site out.

http://www.ussubmarines.com

Alot of the designs would be good for luxury passenger small craft.

 

[BP]

...100 dton Scout Yacht is one of my favorites small starships. I think this design influence me to develop several Type S variants for fun and campaign needs.
...

In case you missed this beauty by lucasdigital!

 

[Cyphr]

...100 dton Scout Yacht is one of my favorites small starships. I think this design influence me to develop several Type S variants for fun and campaign needs.
...

In case you missed this beauty by lucasdigital!

Thanks! I did miss this one. I haven't read the PDF in depth, but I like what I have skimmed. The suggestions some have made in the thread is giving me some ideas.

 

[Guardnacho]

Boxy yachts can be cool:

http://guardnacho.deviantart.com/art/PFS-650i-Landing-98991299

http://guardnacho.deviantart.com/art/PFS-650i-Deck-3-98991652

http://guardnacho.deviantart.com/art/PFS-650i-deck-2-98991807

http://guardnacho.deviantart.com/art/PFS-650i-deck-1-98991957

Sorry about the stats from another game.

 

[Vargr]

Online translators are crap at figuring out technical info but assuming they got this right...

"CREST IV - Ultra-class battleship of the GALAXY"

"The range per unit is 1.2 million light years."

"2500m in diameter vessel cell."

"The acceleration of the vessel is 650 m / s ²" (that's about 66g!)

Wow! :shock:

Where is this baby from? Is there an awesome German SF RPG around someone forgot to tell us?

 

[Vargr]

- Web-surfing completed

- Information Acquired and Analyzed

- Processing conclusion...

*ERROR! DOES NOT COMPUTE!*


At this point I find myself lacking the patience or energy to write extensive rants. I will just write a bullet-point resume.

I now know what Perry Rodhan is and I am filled with hatred and loathing. :evil:

Not for the series, mind you. I haven't read it.

My bile is reserved for my nation. Why? Consider this:


Perry Rhodan...

...has been around for 40 years.

...is made in the continent I live, in a country that is a fellow EU member.

...is popular worldwide in places as diverse as USA, China and Israel. It's massive popular in Spain (right next door) and Brazil (same language, we used to import comics and pulps from there).

...has sold over ONE BILLION COPIES.


Yet...it's unknown and unavailable in my country. In decades of chatting with (very, very few) other Sci-Fi-loving countrymen, no one ever mentioned Perry Rhodan.


Conclusion: My country HATES science fiction!

Corollary: The few publishing houses over here that have a Sci-Fi line are stone-cold-dead idiots who apparently don't like profit.

Petition: Weep with me for this misguided land I live in; and REJOICE! that you're not forced to reside here.

 

[rust]

Well, you see, Doctor Who never really made it to Germany, although it
is probably the world's longest running and most successful science fic-
tion TV series.

 

[BP]

To be fair, there may be licensing and competition issues.

I did read some Perry Rodhan as a child - but haven't seen those books in decades.

Here in the US of A, in the '70's, the tax laws forced book publishers and distributers to pay taxes on books retained in inventory every year they were kept (i.e. taxing what had already been taxed) resulting in the burning of more books than the Hitler regime ever dreamed of...

The impact of all this is still felt today. Hurray for ebooks when Kindle-like technology (yeah that stuff from the late 70's) becomes mainstream.

Then we have the likes of Barnes and Nobles - hurray for them damaging the industry globally - and eventually cutting their own throats!

 

[Vargr]

Here in the US of A, in the '70's, the tax laws forced book publishers and distributers to pay taxes on books retained in inventory every year they were kept (i.e. taxing what had already been taxed) resulting in the burning of more books than the Hitler regime ever dreamed of...

Is that even legal? How can you tax something more than once for the same reason?

It would be like buying a PC and paying VAT every year you use it.

 

[rust]

Is that even legal?

If the government wants the money, there are ways to make it legal.
For example, over here they even "tax the tax" by demanding value
added tax for the petrol tax one has to pay when one buys petrol.

 

[phavoc]

Here in the US of A, in the '70's, the tax laws forced book publishers and distributers to pay taxes on books retained in inventory every year they were kept (i.e. taxing what had already been taxed) resulting in the burning of more books than the Hitler regime ever dreamed of...

Is that even legal? How can you tax something more than once for the same reason?

It would be like buying a PC and paying VAT every year you use it.

It's not double-taxation. Publishers have to pay tax on inventory, just as other businesses do. Books represent a real-world asset and are therefore taxable. If they sold the book they would pay tax on the income of the sale. Not selling the book they have to pay tax on the value of the asset. They could also be depreciated to nothing and have no taxable "value", but still be worth something...

Tax laws are confusing and make little sense to me. Send in the accountants!