Has the Starship Drive Table ever been extended?

[Thunderbolt]

I may have an older edition of the core rules, so I was wondering if the tonnages shown in the drive table ever got extended.

Drives higher than 'M' would appear to have more mileage in them on ships greater than 2000 tons, with the 'Z' drive clearly extending well beyond the end of the table, perhaps as high as 5000 - 12000 tons?

 

[barnest2]

yeh, its continued in high guard, unsure of page

 

[Jon Brazer Enterprises]

Once you get beyond 2000 tons, it is a percentage of the ship's tonnage.

 

[barnest2]

sorry, misunderstood... yeh the final set have been extended to give up too 2000 larger engines up too 6G, but above 2000 is a percentage... sorry...

 

[Thunderbolt]

Does the percentage system let me work out how a 'Z' drive's rating is attenuated by the increasing size of the ship?

I ask because I have tried figuring out a formula from the core rules table, but it doesn't seem to entirely based on a formula.

Bottom line, I'm trying to figure out where these standard drives end, because for the larger drives, it certainly isn't at 2000 tons.

 

[AndrewW]

Does the percentage system let me work out how a 'Z' drive's rating is attenuated by the increasing size of the ship?

I ask because I have tried figuring out a formula from the core rules table, but it doesn't seem to entirely based on a formula.

Bottom line, I'm trying to figure out where these standard drives end, because for the larger drives, it certainly isn't at 2000 tons.

It's separate from the core rulebook for ships over 2,000 tons.

 

[rinku]

The idea is (and was) that the basic book drives are "off the shelf" ones commonly availible for civilian purchase.

Custom designed ones are handled by High Guard (both in OT and MGT), which includes any for really large ships.

It's akin to internal combustion engines today. You can go out and find a suitable engine and put it in your car, but for a REALLY big specialist vehicle, you likely have to get one designed.

 

[Thunderbolt]

I'd assumed that it was like the OT, but it's 'Z' drives fade out at 5000 tons, whereas the Mongoose 'Z' drive arbitrarily stops at rating 4.

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

Does the percentage system let me work out how a 'Z' drive's rating is attenuated by the increasing size of the ship?

I ask because I have tried figuring out a formula from the core rules table, but it doesn't seem to entirely based on a formula.

Bottom line, I'm trying to figure out where these standard drives end, because for the larger drives, it certainly isn't at 2000 tons.

I have tried to find the formula as well, but it just isn't there. Whatever they used to figure out the ratings is NOT based (directly) on a formula.

I THINK that they rounded UP several times for some of the ratings and that is what is throwing things off. In my opinion, you should never round up for a drive rating. If it comes out to 3.9 then it is a Rating of 3 not 4. That doesn't seem to be what they did.

And if you include the data from HG (Small Craft) things are totally wacked since an sK drive should be the same output as an A drive in the main tables, but it is twice as big and uses more fuel; which makes no sense.

However, the MGT tables continue a long tradition going all the way back to 1977 and the original LBB2 drive tables, which were broken and non-formulaic. So at least their is that tradition.