HG 1e Capital Ship Design Example Step 4 Command

[snrdg121408]

Hello all,

I have walked through the Capital Ship Design Example again and checked the command bridge cost rules on HG 1e p. 44 with the Step 4 Command Bridge cost in the text on p. 70.

Bridge - Command Bridge right hand column p. 44:
"A command bridge costs 50% more than a conventional bridge of the same size. Capital ship command bridges take up 80 tons per section of ship and located in a single location (which may be separate from the main bridge)."

A 75,000 ton hull has four sections and a command bridge requires 80 tons of space for a total of 320 tons. The command bridge, per p. 44, cost is 50% more than a conventional bridge of the same size.

The conventional bridge in the example, p. 70, is 1,500 tons which is not the same size as the command bridge. The cost of a 320 ton conventional bridge is 320 x MCr0.5 = MCr160 x 1.5 = MCr240.

The Traveller HG 1e Errata does not indicate any corrections to either the Command Bridge rules or the Capital Ship Design Example.

In the example the 320 ton command bridge cost appears to have been calculated using the conventional bridge cost of MCr1,500 from the softcover and not the cost found in MgT1e Step 4 Summary So Far table or corrected cost from the Traveller HG 1e errata of MCr150.

Is the cost of a command bridge 50% greater than the cost of a conventional bridge the same size or the cost of the installed conventional bridge?

 

[snrdg121408]

Hello all,

Since there has been no response here I went to the HG 2e Play Test site and asked how the command bridge tonnage and cost would be calculated.

While waiting I had an idea what the HG 1e command bridge cost rule may being saying.

HG 1e Bridge - Command Bridge right hand column p. 44:
"A command bridge costs 50% more than a conventional bridge of the same size. Capital ship command bridges take up 80 tons per section of ship and located in a single location (which may be separate from the main bridge)."

According to the command module/(conventional?) bridge rules the cost is MCr0.1 or Cr100,000 per ton of command module/(conventional?) bridge. I now think that "a command bridge costs 50% more than a conventional bridge of the same size" means that the command bridge cost is Cr100,000 + (Cr100,000 x 0.5) = Cr100,000 + Cr50,000 = Cr150,000 or MCr0.15.

Unfortunately, Step 4 of the Capital Ship Design Example uses the command module/(conventional?) bridge's cost of MCr1500, which is not the corrected cost per the official Traveller HG Errata, which is 4.6875 time bigger than the command bridge and not the same size.