Key Deck Plan Design Considerations

[Tenacious-Techhunter]

Publishing standards for RPG materials have changed over the past 40 years, in case you haven’t noticed. If Traveller is going to be a viable product, it has to be a modern product. As such, the deck plans have to change to match the hulls, or vice-versa.

 

[middenface]

Love your published Moon Toad material! More than once I've replaced the standard scout with the Pukharra Class Fast Scout. I love the deck plans and the look of the ship. Only one thin bugs me about it but it is very easy to overlook I think that for playing purposes you have the right mix of accuracy and play-ability. (and I wish that my SU fu was better :mrgreen: )

Thanks! The Puk was a fun little ship. I did it as the result of a challenge.
I am a fan of the classic deck plan look, it's clean and easy to read. Just added a few improvements and my own style.
I've seen some plans that look pretty but are really hard to read, too much clutter, colour and detail.

 

[middenface]

Not too shabby..

 

[Tenacious-Techhunter]

Very good overall, but are you sure the Fuel Scoops and the Sensors are occupying enough volume, considering the height-constrained locations you’ve put them in?

 

[cavebear]

Not too shabby..

Got that too as soon as I saw you had put it up for sale. Love the way you did the variants

 

[Infojunky]

Publishing standards for RPG materials have changed over the past 40 years, in case you haven’t noticed. If Traveller is going to be a viable product, it has to be a modern product. As such, the deck plans have to change to match the hulls, or vice-versa.

Hum, Not sure I get what you mean, I have seen lots of pretty shoddy "Modern" Gaming products. I have also seen some great really old Gaming Products.

Heck, I have seen 30 years of your complaint about deckplans, so I will give the answer that keeps coming up; "If you don't like the plans come up with better ones of your own"

That might be a smart-ass answer, but I got it given to me when I complained all those years ago....


Also Making deckplans is a time honored Traveller hobby, there is a Yahoo group dedicated to it as well.

 

[Infojunky]

Not too shabby..

Ian, the Air/raft is still out of scale with it's garage.....

 

[Tenacious-Techhunter]

Hum, Not sure I get what you mean, I have seen lots of pretty shoddy "Modern" Gaming products. I have also seen some great really old Gaming Products.

Heck, I have seen 30 years of your complaint about deckplans, so I will give the answer that keeps coming up; "If you don't like the plans come up with better ones of your own"

That might be a smart-ass answer, but I got it given to me when I complained all those years ago....


Also Making deckplans is a time honored Traveller hobby, there is a Yahoo group dedicated to it as well.

While you are technically correct with regards to the quality of published material, the audience still demands more in order to justify spending money on it.

I didn't start this thread to complain about the existing art; I started it to prevent past mistakes from creeping into the new edition. And while I'm well aware that I can make my own deck plans to the extent I'm able, the publisher should be made aware of what we expect from modern deck plans if they expect us to pay for them. As such, what we can do independently is irrelevant.

 

[Infojunky]

I didn't start this thread to complain about the existing art; I started it to prevent past mistakes from creeping into the new edition. And while I'm well aware that I can make my own deck plans to the extent I'm able, the publisher should be made aware of what we expect from modern deck plans if they expect us to pay for them. As such, what we can do independently is irrelevant.

It's ok and even a valid point, considering Mongoose's record. For the record I am not fond of the new 3/4 view plans in the new book.

It's just it's one of those hit and miss kinda deals. The best plans so far have been from 3rd parties.

 

[middenface]

Ian, the Air/raft is still out of scale with it's garage.....

Eww bollox, this is why I need a visual proof reader who knows the genre. Yeah it needs to shrink.

 

[phavoc]

Ian, the Air/raft is still out of scale with it's garage.....

Eww bollox, this is why I need a visual proof reader who knows the genre. Yeah it needs to shrink.

The way it's listed doesn't make it an issue. Shrink it and you can't make out details.

IF you are putting it next to the hangar, or inside, then it's ok to draw it to scale. Or just make an outline e of it I the bay and put "not to scale" under the illustration and get the best of both.

 

[Infojunky]

The way it's listed doesn't make it an issue. Shrink it and you can't make out details.

If Ian is anything like I am, if I have a scaled sheet, I want everything on the sheet to match the scale.

 

[Tenacious-Techhunter]

Yeah; it would be fine if he broke it out with a separately colored box, and possibly a different scale, but as-is, it's wrong, and should be fixed. I'd go for putting it at the same scale, myself.

 

[Condottiere]

Classical hull designs need to have the deckplans adjusted to suit that.

If you live in a loft, you'll notice that the roof can slant the walls inward.

 

[Tenacious-Techhunter]

Yes, yes they do.