Thread: Re: Ships that were broken (was Re: [Traveller_TNE] Re: What do

2 posts.

Hi Dave,

I mean that the ship referenced by Harold was not done by any TNE design process. It appears to be an adaption of the Vixtrix to a subsequent design system.

Eamon

BTW, my comment on the launch and Donosev was not meant to be depreciatory in any way - to have produced what you and GDW did, with the tech of the day was amazing. The fact that we're all talking about it 2 decades later attests to that.

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On Tue, 24/2/15, [Traveller_TNE] <> wrote:

Subject: Re: Ships that were broken (was Re: [Traveller_TNE] Re: What do      Hivers know about the Droyne?)
To:
Date: Tuesday, 24 February, 2015, 16:00
       
       Eamon--



When you say "non-FFS" do you mean before FFS was
published? Like in the

BL booklet? There are two things going on there. One is that
some ships

got designed while the system was evolving, and may not have
gotten

thoroughly updated as things changed. Since the flag on the
launch was the

lower threshold and not the power density, that might have
been something

that hadn't been written yet, or was easy to overlook,
easily the latter.



The other is that ship designers could make mistakes faster
than I could

check them, much less fix them. I would have a stack of
print-outs on my

desk and I would go through them and line out the errors and
send them

back for corrections and they would come back with new
errors introduced,

and after seeing the same ship in a tractor-feed dot-matrix
print-out

literally 10 or 12 times you would just about go blind. BL
literally

reduced me to tears. We had missed two or three printer
deadlines and the

premise was that the persons making the ships were
"going to get them

right this time, really we mean it," and I had been
promising my wife our

first "vacation" (a three-day weekend, remember, I
worked 80 hours/wk 52

weeks a year for four years straight) that kept getting
cancelled, and

here we were on the last day and I started reviewing the
ships and they

were ALL f#$%ed up and all of the life just drained out of
me because I

was going to have to call my wife and cancel the
"vacation" again. I

walked out onto the back porch and just started crying. My
disappearance

got some kind of attention in the office and a parade of
people came out

to try to keep me from...jumping, or something. Finally our
print buyer

came out and told me she called the printer and got us an
extension so I

could finish it after the three-day weekend. Even though I
wasn't going to

jump, and it was just the second story anyway, I have always
thought of

that moment that she "saved my life," because I
was just done at that

point. My wife ended up divorcing me anyway. It's hard
to remember back

then that all that stuff was done manually with a hand
calculator. No

spreadsheets that we could afford, no Internet, no e-mail.
Building

mnemonic circuits with stone knives and bearskins.



When did we do the Donosev? Was that BL too? I think maybe I
can remember

the counter, with that ice cream scoop. I'll bet we
ended up changing the

hangar volume multipliers. I still have all of those old
print-outs,

assuming they're not water damaged or chewed up by mice
or something. The

only things I threw away were the production schedules and
warehouse

reports, and of course I wish I hadn't done that. Also
two USS Coral Sea

UIMs that were given to me at her decommissioning ceremony
that

accidentally got tossed in an "empty" bag. I spent
some time dumpster

diving for those but had to give up. We had a really big
dumpster behind

the building.



> Actually,

>

> I think that comment is about a non-FFS version of the
Victrix.

>

> Actual 'broken' ships in TNE seem rare. The
TL-12 Launch has a 14MW Fusion

> Plant - lowest output at TL-12 is 20MW. The Donosev is
a little bit

> Tardisy, having an over spill in internal tonnage from
the hangars.

>

> Considering this was done in the days before the Holy
Spreadsheet of St.

> Antti Lahiten*, that is a laudable score.

>

> Eamon

>

> * Not that using the sheet in the Forms Booklets did
not have it's own

> charms...

>

> --------------------------------------------

> On Sun, 22/2/15, Harold Hale
[Traveller_TNE]

> <> wrote:

>

>  Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Re: What do Hivers know
about the Droyne?

>  To: ""
<>

>  Date: Sunday, 22 February, 2015, 14:32

>

>        Wouldn't

>  be the first time that something popped up in a
Traveller

>  book that can't be re-created using the design

>  sequences.

>
http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss//showthread.php?p=116339

>  FYI: TL 12

>  ship with a TL 13 jump drive and power plant

>

>  There was

>  also one of the design sequences in FF&S (I
don't

>  recall now which one off the top of my head) that
simply

>  couldn't produce equivalent 20th century real
world

>  designs. Simple solution was just go ahead and use
what

>  FF&S gave you with the knowledge it was

>  "wrong" or use the contemporary numbers
for

>  whatever it was and not stress about it.

>

>  Ultimately though we're speculating here about
the

>  "how" behind a canon storyline. The story
is

>  indeed correct as you state by default. The
"how"

>  has more wiggle room.

>

>

>

>

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So analyzing the PDF the Victrix was broken because the crown moulding and wainscoting design sequence wasn't followed correctly.

;)

Derek Stanley
Sent from my iPhone...

> On Feb 25, 2015, at 11:48, Harold Hale [Traveller_TNE] <> wrote:
>
> "The Victrix class ship presented within the Guilded Lilly adventure is broken. So here is a replacement version."
>
> Upon further review someone took your Victrix and adapted it to T20. That wasn't apparent fr om the original post. Indeed...
>
> THE GUILDED LILLY (0330, Virus Redux Epic 1, 1995)
> No errata identified.
>
> The same is true of many other, but not all TNE sourcebooks. Thus we have the consolidated TNE errata, available via PDF. It is however, worth comparing to the consolidated MegaTraveller errata, which is a file that is 3x the size, and noting that the MT errata contains significantly more corrections than the TNE errata, which contains significantly more additions that were not technically anything wrong with the game just improvements.
>
> You have much for which to be proud, no worries.
>