What tools would be usefull?

[markbasham]

Hi again

After making the Trade Generator, and having a few hits and nice comments, i realised that rather then just dive into annother project, it would be worth asking what tools would be usefull which arnt already available?

Especialy as a new MGT player/GM and yet to run my first campain etc, i dont know the bits which would be usefull.

Sugesgions for additions to the Trade Generator were to add the ability to generate Freight/mail and passengers to the program, and also to look into the merchant prince rules.

So the question is, as an exisiting GM/player what tools would you find usefull which arnt already available?

If you havent seen the Trade Generator then feel free to check out this link
Trade Generator

 

[Sturn]

Sugesgions for additions to the Trade Generator were to add the ability to generate Freight/mail and passengers to the program, and also to look into the merchant prince rules.

I would be interested in this foremost.

 

[DFW]

A REALLY good starship design program. :idea:

 

[Pyromancer]

A message distribution manager.
When the campaign spans a subsector or four, with different factions on different planets, and agents travelling slightly above or under the speed of news, I tend to loose track. If event XY happend 17 days ago on planet A, how much time do the PCs on planet B have before reinforcements from planet C arrive? Do the news reach planet D before the fleet there leaves for planet E?

 

[markbasham]

Ok, so the trade stuff is a good start point, but it sounds like in general tracking a lot of things in a big bit of space is also usefull. So an interesting question is what sort of area do peoples games run over? i.e 1 subsector, or a whole sector or more?

 

[markbasham]

Oh and a starship builder, there are a fair few programs out there? what are they missing?

 

[DFW]

Haven't seen any pgms for mongoose that incorp the latest High Guard rules and are anything other than VERY basic XLS files. that don't qualify as an actual program.

 

[Nathan Brazil]

When the detailed world design book comes out, Star System Database. Track every object, sun, planet, even rings. Tie it into a mapping program like AstroSynthesis or the like and it would be soaked in liquid awesome :!: :wink:

Or a character generator/db. Most careers are in a standardized format, including events. So it should not be too hard to make one. OTOH I am lazy.

 

[Nathan Brazil]

Oh, BTW are there any original or licensed software in the works?