08-14-2011, 06:14 PM | #81 | |
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Re: [OOC] The Voyages of "The Hiawatha" [Hero Class] : GURPS Traveller
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And yeah, since we've got two women, they'd be bunked together. |
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08-14-2011, 10:35 PM | #82 | ||
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That sounds like a reasonable, interesting, and agreeable request to me. But my family owns stake in 'Genero-Goods' and I quite like our brown boxes! They're so ... so ... so ... ordinary! |
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08-14-2011, 10:50 PM | #83 | |
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Re: [OOC] The Voyages of "The Hiawatha" [Hero Class] : GURPS Traveller
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08-14-2011, 11:03 PM | #84 |
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Re: [OOC] The Voyages of "The Hiawatha" [Hero Class] : GURPS Traveller
Room 9 is the Low Berths.
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08-15-2011, 05:37 AM | #85 |
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Re: [OOC] The Voyages of "The Hiawatha" [Hero Class] : GURPS Traveller
Ahhh, yes. There they are. So much for that idea.
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08-15-2011, 06:53 AM | #86 |
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Re: [OOC] The Voyages of "The Hiawatha" [Hero Class] : GURPS Traveller
You could just say 1 wall was knocked out between two of them to make the High Passage quarters.
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08-15-2011, 07:19 PM | #87 |
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Re: [OOC] The Voyages of "The Hiawatha" [Hero Class] : GURPS Traveller
The more I look at it and think about it, the more I think that "4 Standard Passengers" is a mistake, and they meant 5 Standard. Or, alternatively, what might be even better would be for the two forward-most staterooms to be High Passage berths and the other 4 to be Standard, double occupancy passenger quarters. Another "credit sink" for you guys might be upgrading ALL of the staterooms to high passage berths, eventually.
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08-16-2011, 12:31 AM | #88 |
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Re: [OOC] The Voyages of "The Hiawatha" [Hero Class] : GURPS Traveller
Sounds good to me. I'll edit the wiki to reflect that tonight.
2 High Passage, 4 Medium passage, 14 Low Berths. I'll also get the software list and weapon stats into the wiki. |
08-16-2011, 05:10 AM | #89 |
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Re: [OOC] The Voyages of "The Hiawatha" [Hero Class] : GURPS Traveller
Ok, guys. I'm of two minds about this so I want to put it to a crew vote. We have two options for armament, a single TL9 Pulse Laser or a single Missile Launcher w/ 5 missiles.
Here are the pros I see for the Missile launcher: Longer range: With 8.0 Gs of sAccel, we can reach out an touch a target up to 24 hexes (240,000 miles) away. That's farther than we can effectively can (and we'd be shooting at a -8 just due to range, but still). Pulse lasers TL/9 only go to 3 hexes, and they only do full damage a 1 hex. More damage: Missiles that hit do 12d(10)burning damage, which is more than enough to disable another Hero-class (average damage puts a Hero at -11 dHP). Slightly easier to hit: As I'm reading the rules, assuming we have Gunner(Missiles)-12, we need a 15 to hit another Hero at max range. It goes up by 1 for every 3 hexes closer it is. No power demands: Kind of self-explanatory. We only have 8 MW of power to play with. A TL10 Pulse laser uses 10. So we'd have to switch off the sensors to fire the laser (or switch off an engine). A TL9 Pulse Laser only uses 2.5 MW of power, so we could install up to 3 of those before we ran out of power. Pros of the Pulse Laser: No Ammo: Missiles are $30,000 a pop. They'll probably end the fight, but at present we could only afford 5. A full load would be 12 per launcher. Meaning assuming we don't get in a fight before we load up to the gills, we need $210,000 to spend on ammo alone. Once the ammo runs out, reloading can only be accomplished out of combat. Cheaper: We could put another $400,000 in our pockets if we took a Pulse laser ($250,000 for the price difference between the weapon systems + $150,000 for the 5 missiles we have). That allows us to buy some more nice kit for the ship or puts us just $100,000 away from another pulse laser (or just $380,000 away from a missile launcher w/ 1 missile as an emergency backup). No point defense: Ok, here's the biggie for me. A Pulse laser allows us to take point defense rolls in case the enemy shoots a missile at us. I just showed that an average hit from a missile puts us into disable territory. As it is, we can knock two missiles out of the sky per turn, at the cost of 1 sandcaster canister per missile. Pulse lasers can knock as many out of the sky as they can hit and cost no ammo. So, what's your vote? Missile Launcher w/ 5 missiles ($900,000, $30,000 per reload, and 12d(10) @ +(8.0 - their sAccel)/2 Accuracy) TL9 Pulse Laser ($500,000, 2.5 MW of power, and 3d(5) @ +0 Accuracy) TL10 Pulse Laser ($500,000, 10 MW of power, and 4d(5) @ +2 Accuracy) A TL/9 Beam Laser could be had too if we dropped a Sandcaster ($1,000,000, 5 MW of power, and 6d(5) @ +0 Accuracy), but that seems really risky to me, having only 1 sandcaster means we can only protect ourselves against 1 missile OR 1 ship per turn. Granted, we'd only be $100,000 away from buying the second sandcaster, but still... |
08-16-2011, 05:52 AM | #90 |
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Re: [OOC] The Voyages of "The Hiawatha" [Hero Class] : GURPS Traveller
Did you ever consider that you might just want to avoid ship-to-ship combat, at least at first? Bullets for a .45 are MUCH, MUCH cheaper. Put the extra money into a faster maneuver drive and you might be able to avoid almost any scrape for long enough to reach a safe range from your would-be attacker.
Just a thought..... |
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