12-07-2014, 12:55 PM | #221 |
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Re: Flat Black
Will you post a picture ?
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12-07-2014, 02:31 PM | #222 |
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Re: Flat Black
No, for a handful of reasons of which the most cogent is that I didn't take one. The moustache, 11mm long, came off a five to six in the morning on the First of December.
It was not a lovely moustache.
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04-09-2018, 05:44 PM | #223 |
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Re: Flat Black
Owing to the generous support of the munificent Roger_BW, there is now a discussion category for FLAT BLACK on the Discourse server at tekeli.li. This avoids the use of the egregious FaceBook.
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05-11-2019, 04:36 PM | #224 | |
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05-11-2019, 11:50 PM | #225 |
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Re: Flat Black
Thank you, though I love history and minutiae.
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12-28-2019, 04:39 PM | #226 |
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Re: Flat Black
Early in the new year I will start work on a book of weapons, armour, vehicles, kit, and equipment for FLAT BLACK. I'm basing the technology on FLAT BLACK's native SF RPG, ForeSight, and I use modified ForeSight mechanics in my games, so this will not be a GURPS product. But I will be thoroughly revising ForeSight's tech assumptions, which are based on 1970s SF, and may be pillaging GURPS Ultra-Tech, GURPS Bio-Tech, GURPS Spaceships, ForeScene, Traveller, Universe etc.
https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/an-eq...flat-black/518
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12-28-2019, 06:34 PM | #227 | |
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The text is about 9,650 words. That is a little longer than my target, which was 8,500 words (about what would lay out as ten pages in a GURPS book), but the target was arbitrary, and I don't wish to cut anything. And on the other hand when I lay it out for easy reading by middle-aged eyes the PDF comes to 15 pages of A4, and it would require no more paper to print out double-sided if I added about 800 words. So is there anything substantial missing? A glossary, perhaps?
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12-29-2019, 03:06 PM | #228 |
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Re: Flat Black
IMO it could be longer. Happily I still have some of your older stuff, especially WRT history.
What I wonder about is how cheap space travel is. AFAICT this requires really cheap spaceships. Which in turn means that the empire could afford huge robot fleets. And how cheap can spaceships get compared to other stuff? They must be airtight, have full life support, need engines far more powerful than any truck or seaship, need electronics more powerful than any airliner. If I design spaceships with VE2, they get seriously expensive even without FTL drives. |
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Freight rate, per ton:
Fare, per compartment, no service
That's the economic cost of shipping, without any taxes or port fees, and without any monopoly profits to the line operators. And that's with Flat Black type ship operations: things would be cheaper if you could FTL from and into orbit, but might be costlier with Traveller-sized jump zones.
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12-30-2019, 02:49 AM | #230 |
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Re: Flat Black
Thanks. Though the main difference may be the small size of the eichberger drives, you have 95% for everything else.
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