What tools would be usefull?

markbasham

Mongoose
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
 
markbasham said:
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.
 
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?
 
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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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