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Originally Posted by ak_aramis
The reason for TL 15 is the reuse roll - which is in MGT (somewhere, but I'm too lazy to look it up at 0200.
It's also been discussed for 5.10 (which I have a partial draft for, but can't quote the same way, because it's a working draft, not a final.).
For drop tanks to be reusable changes the nature of trade.
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Playtest material being what it is, we'll have to wait until it gets published. The Errata in T4 concerning Drop tanks - would largely be missed by anyone who doesn't have it (despite Don McKinney's work).
When I went looking for the scatter rules for jumps that involve using a Flux roll, I was shocked at the potential for ships to be months away from their intended target (assuming I understood the rules from T5 correctly) and the Mongoose Traveller rules involving accuracy of jump could result in millions of kilometers being off target for a jump (per the introductory short story). In other words, there isn't much uniformity at this point in time where rules are concerned between the versions of Traveller. I suspect that the Drop tank rules are going to be of a similar vein - different between versions. T5.10 will hopefully fix some of those issues, but when I looked at the scatter rules for the jump within system from a somewhat accurate astrogation roll, I thought that appearing outside of Pluto's orbit would be so unappealing that few GM's would use it. Hopefully, T5.10 will avoid that issue.
(note: when aiming directly for a mass such as a planet or star - the scatter rules don't come into effect. When aiming for an orbit on the other hand, the result is equal to a flux roll plus the orbit aimed for. So aiming for orbit 12, could result in reaching orbit 5 or as far away as orbit 17. Nasty!)
Since I no longer frequent Citizens of the Imperium due to issues there (Left a message with the moderator there and explained why I was leaving) and have since run into others with issues with the Moderator - I don't have the ability to discuss T5 material with those who seem to love it best. <shrug>
On that note, thanks for the reference specifics and the MgT reference. I'll see if I can find the Mongoose Reference in either of the 1st edition core rule book or the 2nd edition High Guard book - those are the only real reference books I have for MgT. :(