Qualifying...I did put this in feedback...

[jtfc]

but maybe somebody can explain it to me here.

There's a -1 per other career for virtually all jobs in chargen. My question is...why? "I'm sorry, we aren't interested in having you as a Pirate, you have too much experience as a Navy pilot." "Got busted out of the Marines for taking bribes, huh? I'm sorry, we only take fresh clean cut kids for our enforcers". "Eight years as an MP in the army, eh? It's too bad, besides that, you'd probably make great cop".

It makes sense for military careers, but for some of the civillian careers it makes no sense at all. They should actually prefer people with a couple terms under their belt (in cases like Adminstrative and Diplomat, having a few terms should actually be required unless you have Soc 10+). It's just feels so very unrealistic to me, and I can't find where they got the idea from. And what game mechanic does it resolve? Don't you want people to start in the military for a couple of terms and then switch to civillian life? That's a pretty traditional tree for Space Opera.

I can't even figure out where this idea came from. Did Original or MegaTraveller have a penalty for previous careers and I missed it?

 

[AKAramis]

but maybe somebody can explain it to me here.

There's a -1 per other career for virtually all jobs in chargen. My question is...why? "I'm sorry, we aren't interested in having you as a Pirate, you have too much experience as a Navy pilot." "Got busted out of the Marines for taking bribes, huh? I'm sorry, we only take fresh clean cut kids for our enforcers". "Eight years as an MP in the army, eh? It's too bad, besides that, you'd probably make great cop".

It makes sense for military careers, but for some of the civillian careers it makes no sense at all. They should actually prefer people with a couple terms under their belt (in cases like Adminstrative and Diplomat, having a few terms should actually be required unless you have Soc 10+). It's just feels so very unrealistic to me, and I can't find where they got the idea from. And what game mechanic does it resolve? Don't you want people to start in the military for a couple of terms and then switch to civillian life? That's a pretty traditional tree for Space Opera.

I can't even figure out where this idea came from. Did Original or MegaTraveller have a penalty for previous careers and I missed it?

CT and MT allowed one career, period.

 

[rje]

...for some of the civillian careers it makes no sense at all. They should actually prefer people with a couple terms under their belt...

Maybe it's saying that it's more likely to have one career than more than one. Serves to specialize people a bit and to keep them from hopping around?

 

[captainjack23]

but maybe somebody can explain it to me here.

There's a -1 per other career for virtually all jobs in chargen. My question is...why? "I'm sorry, we aren't interested in having you as a Pirate, you have too much experience as a Navy pilot." "Got busted out of the Marines for taking bribes, huh? I'm sorry, we only take fresh clean cut kids for our enforcers". "Eight years as an MP in the army, eh? It's too bad, besides that, you'd probably make great cop".

It makes sense for military careers, but for some of the civillian careers it makes no sense at all. They should actually prefer people with a couple terms under their belt (in cases like Adminstrative and Diplomat, having a few terms should actually be required unless you have Soc 10+). It's just feels so very unrealistic to me, and I can't find where they got the idea from. And what game mechanic does it resolve? Don't you want people to start in the military for a couple of terms and then switch to civillian life? That's a pretty traditional tree for Space Opera.

I can't even figure out where this idea came from. Did Original or MegaTraveller have a penalty for previous careers and I missed it?

Main reason: it's to get characters out of an endless loop of careers and start playing. Especially important if you allow anagathics.

Reality check: the rules are to generate characters for a roleplaying game, not bullet points for a resume playing game.:wink:

As noted, CT and MT gave you one career at all. Enjoy.