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[Shaira]

Originally Posted by Atgxtg

What I am hping to do is to make the spaceship rules combatable with my design rules. So far, it has worked. Just that I need to get the scaling down. A Space:1999 Eagle works out fine with the vehicles rules, but is a small enough ship (estimated SIZ109) that it can stay at PC scale. Something like the Galaxy-class Starship from Star Trek (estimated SIZ 29,032) might benefit from a 100:1 or even a 1000:1 scale.

Hi guys,

Atgxtg - are you thinking of addressing space travel in your starship design rules? FTL travel, that sort of thing? I'd be interested in your thoughts about that - whether you'd be able to offer several options, etc, or would try and plumb for a one-size-fits-all solution.

Cheers,

Sarah

[Atgxtg]

Originally Posted by Shaira

Hi guys,

Atgxtg - are you thinking of addressing space travel in your starship design rules? FTL travel, that sort of thing? I'd be interested in your thoughts about that - whether you'd be able to offer several options, etc, or would try and plumb for a one-size-fits-all solution.

Cheers,

Sarah

Yeah, I'm interested in it. I think muitp0le options works best, so people can play multiple styles of SCi-Fi settings. A "hard Sci-Fi" ship like in 2001 isn't going to work the same way a ship from Star Trek or Star Wars would work.

My thought would be to have multiple propulsion systems and FTL systems available and GMs could just plug in whatever engines work for the setting. So that way we could have Warp Drives or Hyperspace Engines or Jump Drives or whatever. It also allows GM to have people run into less advanced culture that might use a more primitive form of propulsion.


That way someone who want to play Star Wars doesn't get stuck with Warp Drive and vice versa.

The trick is for the designer to do most of the crunch and try to work it out in advance so that by the time it gets to GMs and players it is pretty easy to just plug in an engine and go.