On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:04 AM, [Traveller_TNE] <
> wrote:
>
>
> Evyn--
>
> I discovered the undocumented rules changes by trying to reproduce a fleet
> of modified Free and Far Traders with lots of carried subcraft and noticed
> that I couldn't. Remember how the LBBs would gradually have their covers
> pop off the staples? I ended up with several sets of LBBs thinking they
> were all the same (and that the compilations into the 8.5 x 11 paper and
> hardbound formats were also the same), but my big realization was that the
> sizes in the drive and power plant tables had all changed. I think of it
> not so much as "lost rules" as "undocumented rules changes."
>
I am glad I am not the only one who seems to eat rule books, especially
staple bound Card-stock cover ones. (I will say the digest size sure helped
me fit them in my locker when underway).
>
>
> While you're correct that Tractor/Repulsor tech could solve a lot of
> problems at short range (analogous to laser etching and engraving), for
> big things like tunneling it was easier to assume fusion tunneling because
> that tech was more widely used, so I didn't spend a lot of time thinking
> about niche uses for T/R/M. I know I spoke of embedding the effects of
> other technologies, such as nuclear damper/enhancer, and maybe T/R/M in
> big systems like fusion plants, but developing them into specific tools,
> probably not. Doesn't mean it's not "realistic" or that you can't.
>
The tractor discussion is a recent one spawned from a discussion about
manuvering in the last 10 feet while docking and the shifting of modules
within the cutter wells of the Broadsword class cruisers.
--
Evyn
> wrote:
>
>
> Evyn--
>
> I discovered the undocumented rules changes by trying to reproduce a fleet
> of modified Free and Far Traders with lots of carried subcraft and noticed
> that I couldn't. Remember how the LBBs would gradually have their covers
> pop off the staples? I ended up with several sets of LBBs thinking they
> were all the same (and that the compilations into the 8.5 x 11 paper and
> hardbound formats were also the same), but my big realization was that the
> sizes in the drive and power plant tables had all changed. I think of it
> not so much as "lost rules" as "undocumented rules changes."
>
I am glad I am not the only one who seems to eat rule books, especially
staple bound Card-stock cover ones. (I will say the digest size sure helped
me fit them in my locker when underway).
>
>
> While you're correct that Tractor/Repulsor tech could solve a lot of
> problems at short range (analogous to laser etching and engraving), for
> big things like tunneling it was easier to assume fusion tunneling because
> that tech was more widely used, so I didn't spend a lot of time thinking
> about niche uses for T/R/M. I know I spoke of embedding the effects of
> other technologies, such as nuclear damper/enhancer, and maybe T/R/M in
> big systems like fusion plants, but developing them into specific tools,
> probably not. Doesn't mean it's not "realistic" or that you can't.
>
The tractor discussion is a recent one spawned from a discussion about
manuvering in the last 10 feet while docking and the shifting of modules
within the cutter wells of the Broadsword class cruisers.
--
Evyn