Re: Cramped engine rooms

  > 	If a drive has only 60% of its listed space, it requires 100% more
  > maintenance time (or 200% the normal crew) and tasks more
  > significant than minor repairs cannot be done without opening up
  > the hull to get more access space to components.  All tasks that
  > can be performed are two difficulty levels harder.
  > Comments?
  > - -george william herbert

This is a good idea, but...

You're reducing the amount of working space to 20% of the normal.
Then you're saying you can partially counterbalance the difficulty
of getting in that smaller space to repair things by squeezing
MORE people into there?

I think the bit about adding additional crew needs to be reworked
to reflect diminishing returns - at some point, adding an extra crew
member is going to cost you because of cramped space.  I think that
point comes well before you reach squeezing your normal crew into
10% of the space they're used to (twice the normal crew in 20% of
normal workspace).

Say, if you reduce the engine workspace, you still need the same
size crew, but fewer of them can work at once, thus increasing repair
time and difficulty.  Or some variation thereof.
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John H. Kim
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