Re: spaceship stats

Adrian Hurt [email removed] writes:

> > I was thinking along the lines of Larry Niven style jump drives, I guess.
> > In that case, jumps are made between stars, not into open space.
>
> This messes up the trick of a ship with a jump-1 drive but enough fuel for
> two jumps, which executes one jump-1 into empty space and then a second
> jump-1 to the destination, thus making a 2 parsec journey possible.

Yes, but it also makes higher jump number ships more attractive.

> > OK, so maybe altering the stats won't be enough.  But Jump-4 and
> > Maneuver-3 should still be understandable under the new system.
>
> Yes, but the snag is that a ship capable of Manoeuvre-3 under the old
> system will either no longer be capable of it (because the drives are
> now bigger), or be capable of it but now have some new cargo space
> (because the drives are now smaller).

> > Also, they should have at least the same range of weapons and
> > equipment.  If I have characters aboard a ship in the old system,
> > I want to be ABLE to convert to the new system.  And I don't want
> > to have to give up my repulsor bay because these are not included
> > in the new rules.
>
> No, but you may have to give up your repulsor bay because the new
> rules say it uses more power than the old rules, and your ship can't
> provide the required power.

OK, so maybe it will be impossible to design the 1000 ton merchant
ship that you are carrying over from MT.  But you COULD put the
same equipment on board a 2000 ton ship now.  Big deal.  When you
do the conversion, change the ship tonnage.  Some of us don't use
ship's statistics in normal play.  Also, if it is difficult to
build large ships with high maneuver ratings under the new rules,
then I would just drop the maneuver rating a notch or so.  I'm
sure that I'd eventually get around to changing the ships to the
new rules.  I just don't want the new rules to replace jump drives
with warp drives and missiles with photon torpedoes or other such
drastic changes which would make conversion impossible.

Jerry Williams ([email removed])