Hello

Welcome aboard!

We'll get you situated soon now.

Just a heads up - as of Friday 25th am going to be away for two weeks, and very much doubt I'll be able to post whilst away

Apologies to Evelyn... hope you're still with us... I've been sick for the past week and my posting energies have been sporadic at best.

I'm always here everyday and i can wait as long as is necessary.

Anyone know when portraits update because I got an email the other day saying they accepted two and I'd love to make my submission my Evelyn portrait.

@Evelyn:  I believe the portrait submissions are accepted the first two weeks of any given month.  Then those submissions are processed by the end of the month.    Anything submitted after the 14th is not processed until the following month...  There was a public thread on the new procedures, I'll see what I can dig up.

EDIT:  Here is the thread I was thinking of:

  link to a message in another game

But, I am unsure if all of the kinks have been worked out.  Sounds like there may still be a bit of a backlog.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:47, Wed 23 May 2018.

So they should be in by the end of the month neat :)

Serge, is the scout ship carrying any cargo? (100 tons vs 92 with no cargo)

Starmaster, if we unloaded most of the cargo, is the Longshot big enough to carry the scout vessel in the cargo hold? If so, how much extra % is needed to carry it? (10% or 30%)

(Reading up on Salvage Law is interesting. Since we know that the scout ship is part of the Imperium, getting it back to them will give up to 50% of the value as salvage. The alien ship is a bit different. If it is a military/government vessel, it belongs to the original government. If it belongs to a corporation, it depends on who owns the assets. (Owned by a bank vs company)) It also depends on how long ago it meet its fate.)

Also, I do not remember where the write up for the Longshot is. Can we get that added as a Library Data entry?

Did that read too cut and pasted?

Nope. That was fine.

I was trying to look back to see when I first ran into the Count and I do not see the posts. Not sure if he would remember me.

In reply to Walter Zeller (msg # 677):



I dunno. Starmaster?..



Could you give a link please? I am intrested too.
This message was last edited by the player at 05:52, Tue 17 July 2018.

The scout wasn't carrying any cargo. Serge was on a scouting mission.

This shouldn't matter should it?  The scout ship still displaces 100 dTons of volume no matter if is empty inside ...  In space, everything is weightless.

In any case, ultimately, if the ship is strapped to outside, its contents will be irrelevant and whether it fits in the cargo hold is moot.

That's always been the oddity of the Traveller rules--they tried so hard to be scientifically accurate but then couldn't figure out rules that distinguished between volume and mass. So things get a bit wishy-washy when you start dealing with weight. Yes, in space, it's weightless, but it still has mass, and requires energy to move mass.

Magic!

Also in a planets gravity you can't lift an elephant but in space you can so maybe getting something into weightless space is the difficulty
This message was last edited by the player at 18:31, Fri 20 July 2018.

Looking for input from the rest of you as to our next step. At this time we are down half the players and wanted to see what you wanted to do. Here is a list of the current players and if there is a share next to them, it is what they chipped in to get the Longshot.

Active (Posted less than a month ago)
Evelyn Darque
Kheaiftouaw 1-share
Samantha Kilgore
Sharik Kaagira 4-shares
Serge Baklanov
Valeska Brandenberg 2-shares
Walter Zeller 4-shares

Inactive (last post was over a month ago
Darrel Cromwell (Wed, 11 Jan 2017) 2-shares
Gregory Jones (Wed, 11 Jul)
Kaengarr Ruzokh (Tue, 03 Oct 2017) 4-shares
Pablo Esteban Ryzov (Wed, 11 Jul)
Quinzella (Sat, 31 Dec 2016)
Sienna Reichart (Sat, 08 Oct 2016)
Vonon Ronkunu (Fri, 16 Mar) 6-shares

I was thinking that we should get this issue with the scout ship/alien vessel resolved, fuel up and sell the cargo we are carrying. We then sell the vessel and start from scratch.

Thoughts?
This message was last edited by the player at 16:43, Wed 15 Aug 2018.

Whilst I agree we should settle up, I don't think we should sell the long shot. I'd favour a loan to pay them off, or mortgage or something similar. But Sam has no shares, so no real say.

I think I have shares in something and a bank account but since my city fell apart...

If required, I have a unspend clan share although I do not know if that can be changed into a ship share now after the game has started.

Either way, my shares represent favours from my clan so good luck cashing them in...

Sharik would love to keep the Longshot as well, but it does require a lot of crew (which if not PC'ed becomes a lot of work for the GM).  The financing would need to be worked out.  Though, if we can actually sell some cargo (and I know that Walter would top dollar) the finances would probably shake out okay.

As a player, I can go either way.  The Longshot is cool (I don't know how common the stutter drive is in StarMaster's Traveller universe), and fairly unique in my experience (not to mention, more fuel efficient than more conventional - re: from the core rules - drives/ships.  But, for group cohesion (and size) purposes, a smaller ship might be in order.

Perhaps a slightly customized yacht or some such (I once saw the write up the 100-ton racing yacht (Jump-4, Maneuver-4), which was pretty cool.  I'll try to dig those up)?  Or we could become just another free/far trader crew...  Still, plenty of troubleaction and odd jobs to be sussed out that way as well.  Or we just take Serge's scout ship (once repaired) and tour the sector.  You can always do worse than Type S (J-2, M-2, which should get us a lot of places).

And honestly, I think that Walter's question is more about what the crew/PCs want to do and less about who has the most financial stake in any of this (all told, mechanics-wise, the active players seem to have something on the order of 11 ship shares available - whatever that means, at this point).  No matter their ship share status, all active players should (and do) have a say/stake in what happens with the direction of game and what would be the most fun for them.

In reply to Walter Zeller (msg # 686):

Serge has 1 share to chip in.

Vonon and Pablo are still around.

For the sake of convenience, Kaengarr gave/sold his shares to Pablo.


Quinzella had gone her own separate way a long time ago.


The Longshot is a bit of an advanced ship. It has a long of storage space, so nothing needs to be done with that in terms of personnel, and the ship has all those converted mining droids.

Life Support and Maintenance are only 46,000Cr a month.

If I remember correctly, the ship was sold to the crew consortium for 8,711,000Cr. The previous owner had only two payments left on the ship when she found the bonanza asteroid.

The real value of the ship is far greater than the value on the books.

My understanding is that everyone put in their shares originally to acquire the ship, and after that, everyone had an equal share in the ship.

If anyone felt they weren't getting a fair return on their shares, then that was considered a 'debt' the consortium owed that person. The problem with that is the Traveller rules didn't place a value on a 'share'... it only had purchasing power.

Is it wrong when. I read" the real value" my though was friendship?


Also what did happen to the objects I got from my career like the alien object, money, shares or whatnot?