Sorry if I have been harping on the Long Shot so much, to me, it just seems like a perfect ship for our needs with the neat high grade stuff, but it also comes with a huge caveat, extremely overpriced repair drones.

Concerning those, well, it is a mystery about how that price came about, it might be something simple...Unfortunately, I have this bad habit of always trying to solve them, even if it's futile or unsolvable. ;-)

If this has become a disruption/distraction in IC or slowing the game down unnecessarily, then, I recommend we finish up the debate and vote on a ship that has been presented here or we move on to Outpost?

In reference to paranoia, yea, I think it is somewhat of an ingrained trait one develops, sometimes detrimentally. ;-(

I do agree that this ships do seem tailor made for us, especially with all the improvements like the powerful M-Drive with half the power requirement and the reduced J-Drive. Those things are hard to pass up.

  We're dealing with powerful interests that have secrets to keep. Paranoia is the natural outgrowth of that. ;)

In reply to Kaengarr Ruzokh (msg # 71):

I am not paranoid!  I know that each and every one of you bastards is out to get me!   ^_^

If those repair drones were made by any military organization, and were supposed to be the next big thing, it could be just an extreme example of development bloat, ala the F-35 budget fiasco.

Of course they might be full AIs packing batttlesuit grade armor and hidden fusion guns along with their tool packs. At that price, they should at least be robots, not drones.

Just so I have this right...

Group funds are 17.3 Mcrs, is that correct?

As the new guy I assume I have no vote as I have no part of the multi million dollar pot the group is discussing. did I assume incorrectly?

As this is OOC I don't see why not. Even more so you if you got any ship shares during character creation.

So it looks to me its pretty much decided to get the Long Shot, even if only temporary.

  Since he's the captain and was the owner, is he able to fill us in on the high-tech extras? The super security subsystem, the force fields, and whatever else we didn't yet find?

How much money did we want to use for cargo speculation?

  As much as we can manage to fill the hold, I suspect!

To be honest, I first have to figure out how much money we (I) have left after all the big number transactions.

According to my rough calculations(?)
17.3 MCr.

- 883KCr (Cr882,532)

= 16,417,000 Crs

/8 mission group
Darrel Cromwell
Kaengarr Ruzokh
Kheaiftouaw
Pablo Esteban Ryzov
Samantha Kilgore
Sharik Kaagira
Vonon Ronkunu
Walter Zeller
Did I miss anyone?


=2,052,125 Crs per "old" crewmember.

Or, something to that effect.
This message was last edited by the player at 13:25, Sun 24 Jan 2016.

I have been looking, but I can't find the information concerning AcquireCorp Shares, value (Cr25.92 per share). Is that trade-able only on Grendal or is it a subsector/sector wide?

I agree with Kaengarr, the main point is getting as much of the the most profitable selling item at Outpost, and not worrying so much about cost, well, at least a reasonable cost.

Keep in mind, it is basically impossible given Walter's skills to not make some sort of profit.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:55, Mon 25 Jan 2016.

Heading to Outpost empty would be a waste of time so I figure that I would start working on the cargo behind the scenes while the others check out the ship. I just did not want to show up with cargo requiring 10+Mcr if the group did not want to spend that kind of money.

Pablo would be willing to put 1.5 MCr of his share into speculative cargo.  Do we want to advertise for basic freight lots, too?

In reply to Walter Zeller (msg # 85):

Are you using the core book or Merchant Prince?

I have both but was thinking of just using the core book to keep things easier.

In reply to Walter Zeller (msg # 88):

Makes sense. There are some equipment items from the book that could come in handy, if we want to look at being a "jack of all trades" type of trouble shooters.

Armotec Crew Coat (TL10), Debris Scoop (TL7),Tow Cable (TL7),Forced Linkage Apparatus (TL7+),Salvage Suit (TL9) and of course the K-19 ‘Karp-Dog’ Assistance Drone (TL12). ;-)

I was thinking more in line with the Loading belt for 1 ton and 10kcr, no need to have people on the vessel unless needed.

As for the Armotec Crew Coat (TL10), Debris Scoop (TL7),Tow Cable (TL7),Forced Linkage Apparatus (TL7+),Salvage Suit (TL9) and K-19 ‘Karp-Dog’ Assistance Drone (TL12), I like the K-19, Salvage Suit  (get all the bells and whistles),and the armored coat (now we need to come up with a company logo...) Not sure about the scoops/tow cable/linkage as that would take up 11 tons of cargo space between the three of them.

(Also, in answer to you question on the other board, check out message 68 on this one)

  For those of us who don't own the whole Traveller library ;) could you describe what those things all do?

Here you go

Loading belt Tl7+ 3kcr conveyor belt that acts as if 10 people were moving cargo on the vessel, TL12 10 kcr acts as if there were 25 people.

Armotec Crew Coat gives protection 5 and has a one hour air supply 800 cr

Debris Scoop (TL7), scoops mounted on the vessel to make passes through a debris field and gather them. 10 kcr, 5 tons

Tow Cable (TL7), allows a vessel to tow an another one based on the size of the towed vessel 20kcr, 4 tons

Forced Linkage Apparatus (TL7+), allows docking with another vessel 2 tons 10kcr for the TL 12 version.

Salvage Suit (TL9) Heavy duty vacc suit for salvage operations.

K-19 ‘Karp-Dog’ Assistance Drone (TL12), scans for hazardous materials on board, records audio/video for 6 hours, can bite, play mode.

I must have spent $500+ on getting the books. ;-)

Eventually, I'll upload the books I have into my goggle drive and post a link.