space ship generation Q's

[tneva82]

a) Computers. Don't they take tonnage at all?
b) Same for weapons. Turret fire control takes 1 ton. Okay. Whatabout weapon itself? No extra tonnage?
c) Missle launcher ammunition. Those don't take ammunition either? Only thing limiting is credits?

Thanks for help.

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

a) Computers don't take tonnage is correct, they are now part of the Bridge tonnage.

b) Weapon turrets don't take tonnage, they only need the fire control space internal to the hull. Bay weapons are different.

c) Missile magazines must be added separately. The basic turret can hold 3 missiles per laucher (not sure that is stated though...).

 

[Zowy]

Missiles = 12 per dTon
Sandcasters = 20 per dTon

 

[rje]

a) Computers don't take tonnage is correct, they are now part of the Bridge tonnage.

And thank goodness for that.

In T5, computers don't start taking up significant volume until they're well beyond players' ships' requirements, unless you really do need an amazing amount of computational power.

 

[pasuuli]

Is it me, or is it "about time" that computers stopped having volume?

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

PLEASE can we not have that debate here too. Like many other things in Traveller, this issue seems to fire up tempers on both sides...

 

[captainjack23]

Is it me, or is it "about time" that computers stopped having volume?

Yeah, that happens when your speakers come loose......