Index and quick info ship, craft and vehicle guide

mavikfelna

Emperor Mongoose
I have compiled a list of every ship, craft, station and vehicle that has a data sheet in the MgT2e sourcebooks. I want to publish these but I was curious about what people would be useful data to include in these lists. The raw files are in this post: Excel-ship-designer forum post with zip file.

This is the information I'm thinking of including in my index/reference. Would people find this useful? What is missing? What is too much info?


Class NameClass TypeClass RoleClassificationDisplacementTLThrustJumpJump FuelDroptanks?Operating WeeksFuel Processor?Armed?Subcraft / Vehicle IncludedDesign CostPurchase PriceSourcebookPagePrimary UserCrew QuartersPassenger QuartersStoresCargo
Modular CutterModular CutterMulti-Role Small CraftSmall Craft50124--No4NoFirmpoint(30-ton Module)11,230,000.0010,107,000.00CRB24General040.505
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Class name is the common Class Name, like Beowulf, Class Type is the model type, like Type A, Class Role is what it primarily does, like Free Trader, Classification is Module/Station/Small Craft/ACS/BCS/FCS/WCS based on role or displacement.

TL, Thrust, and Jump rating are the rated values for those in standard configuration. If there are multiple drives, like Maneuver and High-Thrust Reaction drives together they are listed at M+T, If a ship has a backup drive, the drives are listed M1/M2

Jump Fuel is the dTons of fuel, Droptanks is the maximum size of the tanks it can carry or No for no tanks. Operating Weeks is the number of weeks of power plant fuel, and fuel processor is just yes or no but I could change it to the tons/day value.

Armed is just if it has something in the hard points and how many of them. So Dbl Turret x2, would be 2 double turrets that may or may not have anything in them.

Subcraft/Vehicles is for listing any included subcraft, including small craft, vehicles and drones or modules sizes if there is module space. Breakaway craft would also go in here.

Design Cost is the non-discount cost for the ship and all it's included subcraft, Discount Cost is the 10% off price if purchasing a common design or multiples.

Sourcebook and Page are where the design comes from.

Primary user is who usually uses it, like General, Imperial, Zhodani or the like. Could even be a person or company.

Crew Quarters is the number of staterooms used by the crew, with double occupancy assumed for most crew unless otherwise stated or if it's customary for the user to assign some users to individual accommodations those are counted singly, like Zhodani nobility usually get individual cabins.

Passenger Quarters is the number of accommodations left over after crew is accounted for and included low berths but not emergency low berths, interplanetary seating, and brig space (6 spaces). It does not count double occupancy of staterooms, so maximum capacity could be greater.

Stores space is how much space is dedicated to ship's stores. Additional stores can be stored in cargo, this is just the minimum normally carried.

Cargo is how much space is available after stores and passenger baggage space is allocated. It could be free space that is set aside for upgrades or actual cargo or multi-use space but not space set aside for modules.

This is all information that I find myself looking up all the time so I thought it would be useful here. Should I rearrange the order?
 
Information is spread over multiple books so any index or list is a good idea.

There are so many things that could be indexed.

Creatures (i.e. animals, plants and things that don't fall into either category like fungi and space dwelling monsters)
Psionic powers
Equipment
Careers
Diseases
Poisons & Venoms
Robots
Vehicles
Corporations
Aliens & Races

And most importantly
Worlds

And in answer to your question regarding order. Alphabetic but have it in a spreadsheet so that people can search and filter.

As for the amount of information, several points.

1) Remember this is copyright material, too much info might break the rules.
2) More info is good but will take more time
3) You might have difficulty deciding what info goes in what column.
 
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Information is spread over multiple books so any index or list is a good idea.

There are so many things that could be indexed.

Creatures (i.e. animals, plants and things that don't fall into either category like fungi and space dwelling monsters)
Psionic powers
Equipment
Careers
Diseases
Poisons & Venoms
Robots
Vehicles
Corporations
Aliens & Races

And most importantly
Worlds

And in answer to your question regarding order. Alphabetic but have it in a spreadsheet so that people can search and filter.

As for the amount of information, several points.

1) Remember this is copyright material, too much info might break the rules.
2) More info is good but will take more time
3) You might have difficulty deciding what info goes in what column.
Creatures is on the list but way down in priority
Psionic Powers, Careers, Aliens and Races are all covered in my Character Creation Master Document, though they aren't in spreadsheet format.
Equipment is on the list after ships and by far the largest category so far. There is a good index for ship equipment, I'd have to find the link but it's here on the forum somewhere and I can forward the file if you can't find it.
Diseases, Poisons & Venoms is an interesting one, not on my list, may not ever get around to it.
Robots I was going to do in Equipment but it might be worth doing separately.
Vehicles got included in the ships and is basically done. The preliminary spreadsheet is in the .zip file in the Excel thread page
Corporations is one I've thought about but not planned, may do it eventually

So you think it's better to keep things in spreadsheet format than put it into a .pdf? I can do that. I try to make the .xlsx files available for download through my dropbox but uploading them directly works.

1. been hit by that before, doing a much better job now.
2. definitely, it's taken me almost a month to track down the ship, craft, vehicle and station info I have
3. That is why I posted this. There is alot of info and I've put up what I look for but I want to know if it's the kinds of things other are looking for and what they think should change.
 
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