Mongoose 2300AD Progress Report
- Thread starter Colin
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Colin if I make ask something, are you planning on reexamining the crew requirements for ships?
It always struck me as overkill that civilian ships have the same crew requirements, at least on the bridge, as a military one. Example: having the bridge computer work station manned, which is described as primarily for redundancy is a bit much in my opinion.
At any rate thanks for reading.
It always struck me as overkill that civilian ships have the same crew requirements, at least on the bridge, as a military one. Example: having the bridge computer work station manned, which is described as primarily for redundancy is a bit much in my opinion.
At any rate thanks for reading.
Colin
Mongoose
I'm beating my skull against ship design even now. Crew sizes are something I'm wrestling with. I'm looking at military ships having 3 watches, registered commercial vessels 2 watches (1 full watch, 2 half-watches), and non-registered (ie player) ships needing 1.5 watches, but always at least 2 bridge crew at all times.
Sturn said:
I think this was a hold-over from the low reliance on AI and robotics in general. This occurs in Traveller as well. If one were to add good AI then crews could be reduced substantially. Ironically, Ships of the French Arm had a few robot spaceships (even with a bit of weaponry) but they were relatively old cargo vessels. The other thing is that given the complexity of space combat at stutterwarp speeds it would be impossible for a human to manage the task without massive computer assistance. Sure the game had stats for targeting computers but why not just eliminate the middleman and have unmanned drones or at least automated weapon's stations?
It would be interesting to see the Kafer reaction when they realize that humans go out of their way to "sanitize and automate" warfare while they revel in the gritty face-to-face slaughter aspects that make them smarter. Of course too much automation would make the game Transhuman Space with stutterwarp (not a bad idea really, but also not at all 2300AD).
Either way I'm really looking forward to this Colin. I think you did a pretty good job on 2320AD despite my objections towards the surveillance society aspects of the Core Worlds. So good luck and get to work.
Benjamin
Colin
Mongoose
I think I've got crew sizes settled. Starship design is at v7, but I think v8 may be the winner.
Core worlds is done. Aliens are done. DNA modification and cybernetics is done. Background is done. Vehicles is almost done. Descriptive text for starships is done. Starship operations is done. Equipment is done. NPCs is still left, animals, character design is very nearly done. And frontier worlds, including a few under/un-explored worlds.
Core worlds is done. Aliens are done. DNA modification and cybernetics is done. Background is done. Vehicles is almost done. Descriptive text for starships is done. Starship operations is done. Equipment is done. NPCs is still left, animals, character design is very nearly done. And frontier worlds, including a few under/un-explored worlds.
Pentapod earplug
Mongoose
Nice!
Trying to keep my expect-a-lot-o-meter within reasonable limits, but still very eager to get my hands on the printed stuff! Not particularly keen on the Traveller ruleset, but it sorta kinda works still, I suppose. Heck, I was ready to buy the 2320 with d20, which I most certainly do not like, which says a lot about the setting.
I wonder what will arrive first; snow or 2300?
Trying to keep my expect-a-lot-o-meter within reasonable limits, but still very eager to get my hands on the printed stuff! Not particularly keen on the Traveller ruleset, but it sorta kinda works still, I suppose. Heck, I was ready to buy the 2320 with d20, which I most certainly do not like, which says a lot about the setting.
I wonder what will arrive first; snow or 2300?
Colin
Mongoose
Where I live, it'll be 2300AD. Then again, we don't tend to get much in the way of snow here.
Slowly working my way through the editing. The starship design is finished, with testing complete. A big thanks to all who assisted me with the testing, and who have helped me by designing several ships for the book.
Character generation is in testing now, and I'm working on v2 of the rules at the moment. Several great suggestions so far.
I'm just in the process of finishing up the Chinese Arm, and after that it's nothing but designs: ships, vehicles, robots, animals and NPCs. Since I designed three of those five systems, it should go OK. Realistically, I expect everything except the NPCs to be done by the end of the week.
No, really, this time.
Slowly working my way through the editing. The starship design is finished, with testing complete. A big thanks to all who assisted me with the testing, and who have helped me by designing several ships for the book.
Character generation is in testing now, and I'm working on v2 of the rules at the moment. Several great suggestions so far.
I'm just in the process of finishing up the Chinese Arm, and after that it's nothing but designs: ships, vehicles, robots, animals and NPCs. Since I designed three of those five systems, it should go OK. Realistically, I expect everything except the NPCs to be done by the end of the week.
No, really, this time.
Pentapod earplug
Mongoose
The more the merrier?
