Random ID numbers, or not.

[Condottiere]

The number should be large enough to accommodate starship births.

If I'm not mistaken, Social Security Number does include non American origin.

 

[MarcusIII]

Yes, which is why ID numbers are just a sequence within an issuer range, and can't contain things like birth planet.

What if hatched and not birthed?

 

[CordwainerFish]

I give up. Enjoy your pointless structured codes that just cause more work.

...more work for whom? I wouldn't ever use some kind of Imperial Citizen Number at my table, for the simple reason that it brings nothing to the, uh, table. Really, what problem is trying to be solved here?

 

[ResslynHalvik]

I'm done on this topic. You all do what you want. I prefer realism, but I know others are different. It's the other way round in Elite Dangerous, where I'm the person that wants to have fun and everyone else wants to pour a bucket of cold realism over it

 

[Endie]

I'm done on this topic. You all do what you want. I prefer realism, but I know others are different. It's the other way round in Elite Dangerous, where I'm the person that wants to have fun and everyone else wants to pour a bucket of cold realism over it

If you are the easy-going, fabulous, free-wheelin'-Franklin of their game then that speaks volumes about the population of Elite Dangerous*.

*The game where people travel 800 uninterrupted jumps over months through uninhabited space for fun. I speak as an OG kickstarter backer.

 

[CordwainerFish]

where people travel 800 uninterrupted jumps over months through uninhabited space for fun

Ever circumnavigate the galaxy? You see, something really stressful was going on and I needed something pointless and mind-numbing to do...

 

[Fluffy Bunny Feet]

That is when you are supposed to take a singleship out beyond the edges of explored space to "get away from it all" until you yearn for another human (or whatever) face (or equivalent for other species). Then you return.

 

[Talon Greyfeather]

That is when you are supposed to take a singleship out beyond the edges of explored space to "get away from it all" until you yearn for another human (or whatever) face (or equivalent for other species). Then you return.

... and realize why you left in the first place!

 

[Fluffy Bunny Feet]

At least then you have something current to compare it to and it may not be so bad.

 

[CordwainerFish]

That is when you are supposed to take a singleship out beyond the edges of explored space to "get away from it all" until you yearn for another human (or whatever) face (or equivalent for other species). Then you return.

I may have been subconsciously thinking of that. Never met any Trinocs...