High Guard is Here!
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Accept that there has to be a limit, but there's a heck of a difference between 1 power per 2 tons and 1 per 200 (making it about what I'd expect).alex_greene said:
Most of the additional systems seem to take 1-2 power, but this taking 100 for a low 200 tonner?
It makes no sense to me that a ship firing a triple turret with 3 beam lasers would use up 15 power, but a static holographic display 100! I can understand a trade-off like you'd have to do if you wanted to use other systems, but half a ship's tonnage in power for a holographic display that really doesn't do much other than give a visual uniqueness or (impled) deception bonus is just broken imo.
I was sad not to see the Fast Trader, type A3 (which was in the original Supplement 2) not in High Guard - was hoping there would be (found it too heavy on big ships and not enough sample player-level ships imo)... any plans to release an official new-High Guard reconfiguration for it and/or more ship types (low-tonnage ships with Jump-3 would be nice)?
Thanx
Indeed - last time I played Traveller I used the Reign of Discordia campaign setting, which uses Tachyon drives instead of jump drives... and the rules for space travel in that book were non-existent and poorly adapted to Traveller. I used the Hyperspace rules for that campaign as it thematically fit in better with the space travel system described there.AndrewW said:
I agree that a lot of what's in there won't be used for the OTU setting, but it's nice to have it e.g. if we want to use the Traveller system for a game (e.g. Judge Dredd or Strontium Dog) but not the OTU setting.
FentonGib said:
I would be surprised if that did not appear. We will be doing, for example, a mini-supplement for High Guard in 2-3 weeks (with material drawn from the forthcoming Pirates of Drinax, so you can wait for that instead if you prefer) that adds Aslan ships to the new edition. So yes, things like that are more than possible!
AndrewW said:
Whoever came up with this obviously has no idea about electronics, power consumption or holography.
If they can make a lifelike Tupac show up on a stage using a 220v connection, then surely the electrical engineers in the future are at least as good as ours?
This is simply ridiculous when comparing it to the power consumption of a multi mega joule laser. I suspect it was done for pure gaming purposes without factorING in any sort of reality, much like the life support system costs.
AndrewW said:
A holographic effect should radiate exactly as much light as you would expect from an equivalent non-holographic image, plus some residual heat.
But this ship is dumping hundreds of units of power directly into the surface of it's hull, after all that energy has to go somewhere. It's going to be glowing hot in no time, and even if you argue that it disperses into space that's going to be easily detectable and probably have visible effects that will ruin any holographic image. The whole ship is going to shine like a lightbulb element, and a very dirty hot burning one at that.
EDIT: To be constructive, how about reducing the power requirement by a factor of 10 (still too high, but meh) and note that holograph projectors have a distinctive heat signature.
Simon Hibbs
moriturimax
Mongoose
Well, shoot. No love at all for my planetoid questions? page 4 of this post..... sigh...
moriturimax said:
Everything is being considered
AnotherDilbert
Emperor Mongoose
They follow the same rules as any other hull, except for base cost. So the answer to your questions are yes, yes, and at a guess reinforcement is done by the shipyard.moriturimax said:
