[Spaceships] Enhanced Computer Network

[cultureulterior]

Originally Posted by munin

Free Equipment (GURPS Spaceships, p. 10). All winged spacecraft get retractable wheels for free. You can probably get them for free if you're contragravity or something else similar too.

I'd missed that, thanks. But that still doesn't mean you can use them to propel your vehicle over the ground.

Consider if someone invented a 300$ 1G reactionless drive tomorrow- even if you mount it on your car, actually lifting from the ground in your driveway would be illegal- you'd have to drive to an airport, and with goverment the way it is, changing that would take years.

[jacobmuller]

Thank you, Munin. That's a system I hadn't considered.
Computers are a step further on in my campaign (as in Transhuman Space) and must be Neural Net to handle AI software.
I might have used a different system for extrapolating storage too...

SM		+4	+5	+6	+7	+8	+9	+10	+11	+12	+13	+14
Complexity	10	10	11	11	12	12	13	13	14	14	15
Storage (Zb)	10	30	100	300	1k	3	10k	30k	100k	300k	1m
Workspaces	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	10	30	100
Cost		400K	1.2M	4M	12M	40M	120M	400M	1.2B	4B	12B	40B

[munin]

GURPS Spaceships isn't intended for designing ground vehicles. The thread on SS7 has some points on that. David Pulver is still working on the 4e vehicle design system.

[jacobmuller]

But you could extrapolate for a small reentry vehicle...
[any ^ systems could easily bt replaced with non^ - but the ^ makes this a space taxi:)]
3 ton Light Aerospace Re-entry Craft
Craft dST/ dHP Hnd/ SR HT Move Lwt Load SM Occ dDR Cost
Lark 10 1/3 12 1.7g/c 3tons 400kg +3 4SV 1 fore $84k
A small, low signature landing craft for a fireteam in commando suits without heavy weapons.
Or a civilian aerospace taxi.
FORE Power System Details Cost
1 Metallic Laminate Armour dDR1 $3K
2-6 Passenger Seat (SM0 limit) $5k
0 Control: 1 crew-station (SM0 limit); Comp 6; Level 3; Comms 2AU; Sensors 0.2ls $12k
MAIN
0
1-5 Passenger Seat (SM0 limit) $5k
6 Soft-Landing System $10k
AFT
1-5 Passenger Seat (SM0 limit) $5k
6 1/3 GRID 1.7G limit; 2/3 fuel Cell - 24hrs
Notes: Wings $15k; Stealth $20k; air performance, 3,260mph. The civilian model, CAT, has no stealth, $60k. A cargo conversion, the Swift, has one passenger, 2SV, 1.5tons cargo capacity, and costs $45k NB nanostasised bodies tend to weigh less than 200lbs – that’s 15 extra passengers with room for packing peanuts...

[jeff_wilson]

Originally Posted by munin

Hmm. You know, I was under the belief that a Complexity N program running on a Complexity N+1 computer was automatically running 10 times faster than it would on a Complexity N computer, but now I can't find a statement to that effect. Was that just in my head?

It can be run at x10 effective speed IF the computer treats it as a program of 1 greater Complexity. However, the application will [not] necessarily be able to make use of the greater speed: codebreaking yes, word processing probably not.