11-12-2009, 07:59 AM | #1 |
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Spaceships 6: We Will Rock You
Nope. I'm not releasing a new PDF this week. It's too much work.
Weeeeeeeell... Okay, since you asked nicely, here's GURPS Spaceships 6: Mining and Industrial Spacecraft. It's got spaceships an' asteroids an' stuff! Cool, huh?
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11-12-2009, 08:02 AM | #2 |
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Re: Spaceships 6: We Will Rock You
Seen it, bought it, updated my GURPS 2009 release speculation thread - very cool.
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11-12-2009, 09:01 AM | #3 |
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Pg. 8, under Solar Panel Satellite: transmitterss
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11-12-2009, 12:00 PM | #4 | |
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11-12-2009, 01:33 PM | #5 |
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I'm kind of disappointed in this one, even though it was the one I was most looking forward to. For one thing, it's only half the size of the other entries in the Spaceships series.
It's also completely missing any mention of how to go from mining raw asteroids -> building actual ships, something I was really hoping for. Fabricators require some amount of parts, but nothing's ever mentioned on how to go about getting those parts made. I suppose you could go Raw Materials->Parts->Finished Ship, but then you're hung up on how much the raw materials are worth and if they're the right type. I'll probably just say to assume you need twice as much raw ore as your ship's loaded mass and that it takes 2/5 as many days to fabricate parts as it would take to build your ship to turn that raw ore into the parts your fabricator needs, basically assuming the parts are all SM+2 or more. Also: There appears to be an error in the PDF. On page 5, production times for spaceships are said to be able to be sped up in two different places, but they give different costs to reduce the time by the same amount. The first paragraph says paying twice as much reduces time to 2/3, while the second paragraph says paying three times as much reduces time to 2/3. |
11-12-2009, 01:47 PM | #6 |
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The SPS (p8) gets a special place in my heart as a disappointment for labeling the power beams in joules instead of something actually meaningful...
But it also seems to have a genuine bug. It has a spinal power beam which can only be pointed forward, and a rear-mounted power beam that can't. There's no way for it to point all its beams at the ground station.
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11-12-2009, 02:24 PM | #7 |
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It clearly states that the beams are just 'representing' the actual power beam. It doesn't actually have one spinal mount laser and three major mount lasers - it has one big power beam array that masses 30% of the entire station.
Also: If you want to convert those joules to watts, just divide by twenty. It fires that many joules every twenty seconds by default, so divide by twenty and pow! you've got x joules/second, also known as watts. |
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(David could have written up a new, 6-system monstrosity for this one satellite, but that would've really been overkill. Especially considering that it's mainly just a bullet-point on the description of what this thing does.)
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