I know VDS was originally meant for their CORPS system I seem to remember there's a section in the back of VDS that says "To use with EABA, make the following adjustments" IIRC, EABA is less detailed than CORPS , which is a lot less detail intensive than TimeLords 1st edition (grin) On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:32 PM, <xxxxxx@comcast.net> wrote: > Hello Jeffery Schwartz, > > > > What is the difference between BTRC's "VDS" (Vehicle Design System) and EABA > Stuff? > > > > Tom R > > ________________________________ > > From: "Jeffrey Schwartz" <xxxxxx@gmail.com> > To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 11:26:18 AM > > > Subject: Re: [TML] Deck plans > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Postmark <xxxxxx@btinternet.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Alternatively, you could make it a maintenance nightmare! Minimum inter >>> deck spaces . . . >> >> >> IMTU, smaller ships have interiors which resemble the Millenium Falcon: >> pipework and ducting wandering through the interior spaces, to the extent >> that most deckplan squares (save for those in the cargo holds) count as >> Difficult terrain. >> > > BTRC's "VDS" (Vehicle Design System) has some neat rules for trade > offs on volume, mass, price, etc. > Now and then reading them, I get inspired to play with a rule along > the lines of : > "Volume for a component can be changed by up to 25%, with an inverse > 10x change in maintenance time (and thus cost) and headaches" > > Say you take a 10% reduction, and trim your 10 dton M-drive to 9 tons. > You'd be taking a 100% increase in maintenance time/cost - so the > normal 4 hours a week (or what ever) becomes a full days work, and > there's a lot of less-standard widgets that are smaller and more > expensive that need replaced. > > "Yeah, the M-Drive is tight packed. Most of the work on it has to be > done from outside the hull, and I'm talking even routine maintenance, > not just big repairs. " - flashback to scene of Han and Chewie > working on the Falcon on Hoth, climbing around on the outside of the > hull. > ----- > The Traveller Mailing List > Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml > Report problems to xxxxxx@travellercentral.com > To unsubscribe from this list please goto > http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=zZOCJCw2BI9jPrGTB4OJoibiHbbTEiok > > ----- > The Traveller Mailing List > Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml > Report problems to xxxxxx@travellercentral.com > To unsubscribe from this list please goto > http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=vSy3NFQJMSbZKrzPfC3XucFBsUCMtKrI
