Well, after designing a ship, I reevaluated it to make sure I hadn't made
any mistakes and to try to eke out more space for cargo. It was, after
all, a freighter.
I fiddled with it and finally came out with something useable. But in
order to check my numbers I compared my ship to a standard model built with
the same hull. Boy! was I in for a shock!
The ship I built had nowhere near the accommodations, nowhere near the
cargo space, nowhere near the price! My crew was sleeping in bunks vs
staterooms, 2700 vs 1900 kl of cargo space, and my ship cost 3x as much,
about MCr 65 vs MCr 195. What the ...!
I see no way for this particular ship, the Subsidized Merchant, to be
built with its purported data given the MegaTraveller shipbuilding rules.
Are we being tricked here, or what? Has anyone else tried to check the
building of the standard ships with the MegaTraveller ruleset?
Arturo Perez