01-16-2020, 04:51 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Dec 2017
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Space Ships question regarding total life support
If I put total life support into a ship, it halves the number of cabins. Do establishments, minifactories, offices, etc, also pay the same price? They don't add to the number of people aboard. (Pyramid 3/34 states that these facilities don't gt the extra room that not having life support systems provides.)
I couldn't find anything either way. I'm redoing USS Enterprise--the enormous ice crawler--now that I have that magazine issue. THANKS |
01-16-2020, 05:00 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: Space Ships question regarding total life support
Hm. It looks like as written the answer is yes (they all replace cabin counts, and total life support reduces cabin count), but it should probably actually be no.
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01-16-2020, 05:08 PM | #3 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Re: Space Ships question regarding total life support
Total life support doubles the size of accommodations (Spaceships, p. 17). Accommodations are defined on the same page as cabins, cells, and bunkrooms, so the doubling for total life support does not apply to specialized rooms or steerage cargo.
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01-16-2020, 05:46 PM | #4 | |||
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Binghamton, NY, USA. Near the river Styx in the 5th Circle.
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Re: Space Ships question regarding total life support
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An unfortunate part of the rules here are that "cabins" is used as a label for two different things: 1) the number of slots a Habitat has available to install rooms 2) a room used as living quarters I usually refer to the first as "Cabin Slots" or just "slots" to differentiate them from the living quarters meaning of the label. Quote:
This rule is completely separate from the rules for accommodations from the Habitat rules in Spaceships 1. And, yes, this does create a weird hodge-podge way of handling habitats. I'd rewrite the entire section if I were put in charge of making a Spaceships 2nd Edition.
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01-16-2020, 05:57 PM | #5 |
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Re: Space Ships question regarding total life support
Thanks all. That's what I thought--no extra space needed for establishments and the like. With the number of non-accomodation spaces in the 300,000 ton Enterprise, it's going to be a noticeable difference.
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