In reply to Nerull (msg # 123):

So what about those skill packages? IIRC package "A" got the most voices so far.

In reply to Danila (msg # 185):

I'm still up for any of them. Is there any skill that's clearly missing? Do we have anyone with Leadership or Tactics(Naval) (which are, admittedly, in different packages)? I thought about picking up leadership with my connections skills, but it didn't make any sense in context.

In reply to Alyx Karoll (msg # 186):

Danila has both Leadership and Tactics (Naval).
This message was last edited by the player at 22:43, Wed 02 Sept 2020.

Now that my character sheet is done there are clearly actual skills I would love to have; deception, stealth, broker and persuade just to name a few.    These skills are in many other pkgs. besides A but since more votes are for it then that is where my overall vote will go and I'll take Deception 1 as a skill.

  Remember that you can get any two skill-ups of your choice (except JOAT) from Connections. That's a good place to pick up things that weren't part of your career.

In reply to Tal Atvar (msg # 188):

Skimming back, I see a number of votes for A, one clear vote for G, one vote for H which was declared to be in jest. I voted to go with the majority.


If I am picking to fill what will best serve the group, I need more Admin (or Broker if Leroy is going to continue IC declaring himself not a broker, but that's for roleplay and he's much better at it than Alyx would be if I pick up one). Given that neither of those is in A, I could take something generally useful like more Persuade or pick up Medic.

The package skills just give you rank 1 of whatever it is. They don't (unfortunately) give +1, so if you already have something at rank 1 or higher they don't help (unless you use it to pick up a new specialization for skills that have those).

Connections don't have that limitation (although they still can't take a skill above rank 3).

I think we have to establish a skill picking order before we start picking skills.

Mine has 11 (inclusding connection skills).

I'd ideally need some kind of leadership/tactics skill.
This message was last edited by the player at 07:00, Thu 03 Sept 2020.

Nerull handwaved that earlier to 'everyone can pick any one skill from that list' rather than the standard picking-order method.

So Nerull won't have any problem with duplicate skill choices?

Probably not, since the group size means that it's unlikely that we'll be missing anything critical between us.

Plus, the inevitable dropout rate on RPOL makes skill exclusion a risky business!

In reply to Khuevaengh (msg # 195):

Who has Broker? What level?

No.  I didn't say it was in jest.  It was a serious vote but my motivation was humour.  That's just for the record.

My character has got level 3 broker. But he has been hired as an astrogator and the captain has not renegotiated his contract, so he won't be using it any time soon.

In reply to Leroy Ogambe (msg # 198):

Ahhh, you are the broker then, You should get a little extra for wearing another hat, especially the hat that makes money.

In reply to Nerull (msg # 199):

Here is statistics for 20 dt Launch.
Again, Mongoose had messed up stats. Maneuver Drive in their stats (High Guard pg 96) has mass 2 tonnes and cost 4 MCr, meanwhile, according to the rules (High Guard pg 14), the 1G drive on a 20 dt ship should have mass 0.2 tonnes and cost 0.4 MCr.

https://docs.google.com/spread...DdE/edit?usp=sharing

So there are two options for us:
a) The Launch on March Harrier has statistics according to the spacecraft rules (as in the google spreadsheet above);
b) The spacecraft rules are ignored and the Launch has statistics as stated in the rulebook (High Guard pg 96).

In reply to Danila (msg # 200):

Use High Guard,

In reply to Nerull (msg # 201):

BTW, can ship shares be used to upgrade the ship?

In reply to Danila (msg # 202):

Yes, they can, just not as cash cash. You need tanks from Nakota to make a consecutive jumps for Jump 2.

In reply to Nerull (msg # 203):

The latest update on shares which I found was this:

Carver: 2
Heike: 4
Leroy: 2
Tal: 2
Danila: 0
Copeland: 0
Khue: 2
Alyx: 0
Gvoudzon: 2

Total: 14
This message was last edited by the player at 16:17, Thu 03 Sept 2020.

Gvoudzon? That's an NPC... Did Nerull list him having shares somewhere?


Leroy: The other thread is locked so I can't reply there. The info on converting shares to revenue control (or extended route control) is part of an article on subsidized merchants from Mongoose JTAS #6.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:32, Thu 03 Sept 2020.

In reply to Khuevaengh (msg # 205):

NPC has no shares

I'm asking because it makes no sense to me to follow that math.

Ship Shares
Ship Shares Route Control Revenue Control
 5           5 weeks       +2%
10          10 weeks       +5%
15          15 weeks      +12%
20          20 weeks      +20%

Ship Share purchases are always negotiated in increments of five and non-refundable so the Travellers must exercise caution. Spending them on route and revenue control should only be done if they intend to make a long-term commitment.

Revenue control gives increasing returns as you invest into it since you own a proportionally greater share of the revenues. It'd be nice to get to 15 since that's a big jump in effectiveness, but if we only have 12 we can still get the 5% increase and use the other two for something else. (It has two turrets IIRC, but could have more with that tonnage. Or we add another utility system in there somewhere.)
This message was lightly edited by the player at 19:45, Thu 03 Sept 2020.

In reply to Khuevaengh (msg # 208):

You'll need to negotiate fuel tanks for jump 2 to get out of the Trace.