Traveller Compatability Licence - SOLO

[Sigtrygg]

TL reduced size can take it below 10t.
"Size Reduction: This reduces the tonnage consumed by the jump drive by 10%. This can take the drive below the minimum size of 10 tons."

 

[Fluffy Bunny Feet]

TL reduced size can take it below 10t.
"Size Reduction: This reduces the tonnage consumed by the jump drive by 10%. This can take the drive below the minimum size of 10 tons."

But the price matched a 7.5 ton budget (8.4375 MCr) J-Drive not a size reduced drive which should have been 25% more (18.75 MCr) not less and a TL 9 J-1 drive made at TL 10 could only get a 10% reduction not the 20% listed (8 tons instead of the 10 ton standard minimum).

 

[Condottiere]

I found the smallest, and cheapest, jump drives, years ago.

 

[Sigtrygg]

And then they changed the rules...

 

[Condottiere]

If they did, it hasn't been done officially, since I tend to keep an eye out for that.

The smallest is seven tonnes, thirty percent deflation at one hundred fifty percent default cost.

Pragmatically, you'll want the technological level fourteen one, since you could jump your hundred tonne mini yacht two parsecs, which seems the only reason to pay over the odds to save three tonnes.

That's the only exception to the minimum ten tonnes for any jump drive.

 

[Fluffy Bunny Feet]

And then they changed the rules...

Stretching those rules to the breaking point (using the 7.5 ton J-Drive among other things) gets my Lone Trader down to 13.676063 MCr with a little over 71 tons of cargo (but he better not be a claustrophobe). Even after paying himself 10,500 Cr / month his profits could be over 75,000 Cr / month if he always had a full cargo hold. (Depending on things like port fees and broker fees).

 

[Sigtrygg]

Mongoose minimums are massively oversized compared with prior iterations.

 

[Condottiere]

Wasn't Classic jump drive/alpha also ten tonnes?

 

[Sigtrygg]

Then came High Guard, and MegaTraveller, and TNE, and T4...

 

[Condottiere]

Jump drive one to two and a half percent seems balanced out by the manoeuvre drive lowered percentage, and increased acceleration.

Also, overhead remains at five tonnes, compared to one percent otherwise.