Spaceships: Getting rid of cabins

[Schilcote]

I have a spaceship (which I already designed in non-game-mechanic terms) that I'm trying to recreate in Spaceships terms. Problem is, it's a big honkin' cargo freighter, so it's SM+12... but it's only supposed to have 12 crew quarters (and those aren't even full, it's just got the players in it). Since the 'habitat' component contains 600 cabins, this is a bit of a problem.

Does anyone have a different way of representing crew quarters that doesn't conflict so much with the established design? I suppose I could fill it with minifacs, saying they represent a big workshop that isn't quite big enough to count as 1/6th of a hull section.

[Humabout]

Not sure if it's RAW or not, but you can trade a cabin for 5 tons of steerage cargo - that is, it's pressurized and climate-controlled.

[Nereidalbel]

Convert unnecessary cabin space into extra storage space. The examples and such in the books aren't the universal law of every design ever.

[Irenaeus]

Either use the remaining cabins for steerage, or expand upon the "smaller systems rule". Replace one of the SM+12 systems with 100 SM+8 systems. Make 2 of them habitats and 98 cargo bays, and you get 12 cabins and 4900 tons of upressurized cargo holds.

You can also replace some more of the SM+8 Cargo Holds with other utilities without using a full SM+12 system, so it's a very flexible design solution.

[Schilcote]

Originally Posted by Irenaeus

Either use the remaining cabins for steerage, or expand upon the "smaller systems rule". Replace one of the SM+12 systems with 100 SM+8 systems. Make 2 of them habitats and 98 cargo bays, and you get 12 cabins and 4900 tons of upressurized cargo holds.

You can also replace some more of the SM+8 Cargo Holds with other utilities without using a full SM+12 system, so it's a very flexible design solution.

Ooh, I like this.

[The Wrathchild]

Never has thinking inside the box been more elegant! :-)

[Schilcote]

Actually, it's more of a three-dimensional oval (is there a word for that?).

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by Nereidalbel

Convert unnecessary cabin space into extra storage space. The examples and such in the books aren't the universal law of every design ever.

It's also possible to split the mass-module into a 1/3 part for Cabins and then use the remaining 2/3 for Cargo (regular cargo, not steerage). Or even 1/10 for Cabina and 9/10 for Cargo if desired.

It's not RAW-legal, but it's an extremely obvious and non-abusive thing to do.

[Phantasm]

Originally Posted by Peter Knutsen

It's also possible to split the mass-module into a 1/3 part for Cabins and then use the remaining 2/3 for Cargo (regular cargo, not steerage). Or even 1/10 for Cabina and 9/10 for Cargo if desired.

It's not RAW-legal, but it's an extremely obvious and non-abusive thing to do.

Actually, the 1/3-2/3 split IS RAW-legal, in Spaceships 4 or 7 (IIRC). The 1/10-9/10 split isn't necessarily RAW-legal, but I doubt anyone's really going to complain.

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by tbrock1031

Actually, the 1/3-2/3 split IS RAW-legal, in Spaceships 4 or 7 (IIRC). The 1/10-9/10 split isn't necessarily RAW-legal, but I doubt anyone's really going to complain.

You can get the 1/10-9/10 split by doing two iterations of the 1/3-2/3 split, so if one is legal, the other also has to be.