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Krinberry · 05-05-2017, 10:49 PM

In my own fiddling, I ended up treating SM+3 extrapolations for control rooms as also having 0 stations - basically, it's a dash with a set of controls or a computer that can run programs to do what needs to be done, but if you want a human to be messing with those controls, assign a passenger seat to it.

To that end, the house rules I've been using for passenger seating are that you can use a design switch to Passenger Seating to allow installation of a Harness, which allows for a very simple strap-in system with only 1/3 the builtin life support (8 hours) but with 3x the capacity, so in a SM+3 vehicle you could use 1 harness per location. It's not a perfect solution, but I think it's a fair trade against the stats for SM+4 and up.

05-05-2017, 10:49 PM	#875
Krinberry Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Canada	Re: GURPS Spaceships Design Spreadsheet In my own fiddling, I ended up treating SM+3 extrapolations for control rooms as also having 0 stations - basically, it's a dash with a set of controls or a computer that can run programs to do what needs to be done, but if you want a human to be messing with those controls, assign a passenger seat to it. To that end, the house rules I've been using for passenger seating are that you can use a design switch to Passenger Seating to allow installation of a Harness, which allows for a very simple strap-in system with only 1/3 the builtin life support (8 hours) but with 3x the capacity, so in a SM+3 vehicle you could use 1 harness per location. It's not a perfect solution, but I think it's a fair trade against the stats for SM+4 and up.