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Old 05-04-2013, 07:31 AM   #16
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Default Re: [Spaceships] Benchmarks for spacecraft cost

I highly doubt that an external clamp necessarily takes up 1/20th of a ship's total mass. That and quite a few of the other things that pop out of spaceships come about, I think, because of the abstractions the book makes. For example, the guns don't make a lot of sense to (why would barrel size be necessarily tied to gun tonnage?)

This is one of the reasons I eagerly await GURPS VDS. GURPS Spaceships is fine for approximations or very large, space-opera-y ships (though the combat system doesn't support them well), but if you want more detail and specifics...
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