Ship Shares and Ship Benefits

[-Daniel-]

Bravo with the changes on these two benefits. Well done.

I like this as it gives the Characters a real running start on the debt they will carry into their life. :mrgreen:

 

[Golan2072]

Yes, I like it as well; this is a huge improvement over the old edition's ship share system, which was quite broken. The current system - I like very much.

 

[Captain Jonah]

Needs to cover more ships though to allow players to access something other than the Free Trader if they want longer jump range or just something different from their career.

Scout gets a jump 2 scout, Scholar gets a jump 2 lab ship, Rogues get a non existent jump 2 ship, merchants get a jump 1 ship. Given the focus on a sector well known for not having a jump main jump one is a bit restricting so some options would be nice.

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

Agreed. Make it generic so that the Ship Shares can be pooled for just about anything.

The individual Ship awards should stay the way they are though.

 

[-Daniel-]

The individual Ship awards should stay the way they are though.

Couldn't they do something like the last edition? A Ship Benefit gives you a 25% reduction on the named ship or X Value to any other ship?

Just for reference, last edition's Ship Text:
Free Trader: You receive 5 ship shares towards the use of a Free Trader
merchant ship, or 2 ship shares towards the use of any other vessel.

 

[DickNervous]

The individual Ship awards should stay the way they are though.

Couldn't they do something like the last edition? A Ship Benefit gives you a 25% reduction on the named ship or X Value to any other ship?

Just for reference, last edition's Ship Text:
Free Trader: You receive 5 ship shares towards the use of a Free Trader
merchant ship, or 2 ship shares towards the use of any other vessel.

Perhaps just 20% of the named ships value that could be used towards a different ship? So in the case of the Free Trader it would be MCr9.286.

 

[DickTurpin]

I like the new ship benefit rule, but it could be improved a bit by allowing a portion of that value to be used on another type of ship. If 20% of the Free Trader value could instead be used for a Far Trader, it would also eliminate the jump-1 range problem that occurs when starting in the Sindal subsector.

Or some method for the Traveller to sell (or trade in) his ship for a down payment on a different ship could be included. Most groups will probably think of this on their own but it would not hurt to explicitly state it somewhere.

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

Maybe allow you to convert a Ship Benefit (25% of the ship) into say 5 Ship Shares if used on a different ship? So you get MCr5 value out of it if you take your Merchant and convert it into part of a Mercenary Cruiser. So it is still better than a Ship Share benefit, but not overwhelmingly so.

25% of a Free Trader is about MCr 10, so you are getting about 1/2 of the value out of it by switching ships. That seems reasonable...