Well, my first request is to cut down on the "physics nullifiers". Power
requirement for thrusters *have* to go up because as several people have
pointed out, the ships wind up with more kinetic energy than the fusion
reaction supplies! Also, this means generally reworking *all* power
plants and propulsion systems.
Fusion rockets: scale back to an Isp of 600,000
Fission reactors: get *real* fuel consumption and efficenicies.
Internal combustion...
(you get the idea)
Second, have some folks checking for the *implications* of some of the
gadgets available.
For instance, if one has pretty much *current* tech, plus a continous
fusion reactor (ie some sort of magneticly confined plasma) one can
build a "fusion torch" and convert *anything to a plasma at such a
temperature that *all* molecular bonds break down. Feed this plasma
into what amounts to an overgrown mass spectrometer, and you'll get out
*isotopicly pure* elements.
In other words, shovel in garbage and get it reduced to its component
elements, all nicely seperated. This *will* be possible at or slightly
above the tech level that allows a "fusion rocket". And it *kills*
almost all of the "rare element" scenarios. (It also kills things like
the "nutritional deficencies" bit for the hi-pop worlds)
Or my other favorite "we never thought of that": the kinetic kill
planetbuster. We've been over *that* before.
Things to keep/revive: vector movement. Drop the (impossible) agility
nonsense. Jinking can help a bit, but when you consider the ranges
involved, it's *not* going to be at all significant. (Not when you
consider the speed of light lag at some ranges!)
I got into Traveller in the first place (many years ago) *because* it
was the only SF game that actually did things reasonably! I quit trying
to *play* it because of the stupid holes and inconsistencies in the
rules. (we couldn't figure out the "right" way to use missiles until
someone got a copy of Mayday. And then we *still* had arguments!)