[T:IW/SS] Traveller dTon to SS tonnage?

Phantasm · 10-29-2016, 07:32 PM

I can never get that spreadsheet to work in OpenOffice; I've stopped trying. :(

It still seems people are looking at things a little backwards from what I want, though. I want to make the ship in T:IW while shooting for a set tonnage (and relevant SM) rather than using SS, but folks seem to think I want to make the ship in SS. SS is a bit too limited for what I want.

Eric, I'll look at those rules later. :)

Fred Brackin · 10-29-2016, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Phantasm

I can never get that spreadsheet to work in OpenOffice; I've stopped trying. :(

It still seems people are looking at things a little backwards from what I want, though. I want to make the ship in T:IW while shooting for a set tonnage (and relevant SM) rather than using SS, but folks seem to think I want to make the ship in SS. SS is a bit too limited for what I want.

Eric, I'll look at those rules later. :)

If you want to make the ship in IW then do it however it makes sense there. Add up all the things you want on the ship and that will lead you to a size. If you want a particular size then adjust your want list but you're not going to be able to make IW ships come in neat 1/20th of the ship's mass modules.

scc · 10-29-2016, 08:42 PM

A Traveler ship's LMass is it's weight, or at least I'm pretty sure it is, you can probably get away with converting that straight into tons for SS

davester65 · 10-30-2016, 09:53 AM

There have been quite a few rule systems for designing Traveler Starships since the original High Guard rules which is pretty much what canonized the dton as a unit of measure (along with the original Traveler rules) and a lot of them also calculated the ships mass along with the volume. I've fiddled with a lot of them and even created a homebrew or two and I'd found that the ships mass usually averaged out to about 3 - 4 tons of mass per dton.

10-29-2016, 07:32 PM	#1
Phantasm Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: On the road again...	Re: [T:IW/SS] Traveller dTon to SS tonnage? I can never get that spreadsheet to work in OpenOffice; I've stopped trying. :( It still seems people are looking at things a little backwards from what I want, though. I want to make the ship in T:IW while shooting for a set tonnage (and relevant SM) rather than using SS, but folks seem to think I want to make the ship in SS. SS is a bit too limited for what I want. Eric, I'll look at those rules later. :) __________________ "Life ... is an Oreo cookie." - J'onn J'onzz, 1991 "But mom, I don't wanna go back in the dungeon!" The GURPS Marvel Universe Reboot Project A-G, H-R, and S-Z, and its not-a-wiki-really web adaptation. Ranoc, a Muskets-and-Magery Renaissance Fantasy Setting

10-29-2016, 08:42 PM	#3
scc Join Date: Mar 2013	Re: [T:IW/SS] Traveller dTon to SS tonnage? A Traveler ship's LMass is it's weight, or at least I'm pretty sure it is, you can probably get away with converting that straight into tons for SS

10-30-2016, 09:53 AM	#4
davester65 Join Date: May 2009	Re: [T:IW/SS] Traveller dTon to SS tonnage? There have been quite a few rule systems for designing Traveler Starships since the original High Guard rules which is pretty much what canonized the dton as a unit of measure (along with the original Traveler rules) and a lot of them also calculated the ships mass along with the volume. I've fiddled with a lot of them and even created a homebrew or two and I'd found that the ships mass usually averaged out to about 3 - 4 tons of mass per dton.