It is'nt realism most of us are after, but slightly better suspension of disbelief; yes, we'd accept a little "handwavium", or a lot of it in that matter; the issue here is that of flavor, and many simply don't like the 1970's computer flavor, even if we accept alot of other 1970's sci-fi concepts.Originally posted by far-trader:
Well why even bother. If it's realism we want let's also chuck jump drive, manuver drive (the whole field of artificial gravity in fact), and fusion power. Ships will be cheap and small and very very very slow and they won't have any crew. It'll all be robotic AIs exploring the universe on a time scale measured in millenia.![]()
I know that Traveller was somewhat realistic and informed (to a degree) when it came to biology, astronomy and military matters; but didn't they have an engineer on the team when they've wrote Striker?Originally posted by far-trader:
That is another of my pet-peeves, 4kw, FOUR KILOWATTS! Maybe 4 watts, but 4000 watts for the radio! I don't need more than a couple watts of power to broadcast 5km easy. Traveller power consumption ideas have always seemed a bit extreme and that's fine for anti-gravity and jump drives, we have no idea how much energy will be needed but radio is one thing we do have and know, like computers. A 5km radio just does not need that much juice.
So you say that the LBB2 storage and "system resources" (proccessing) units are equal to the LBB8 ones?Originally posted by Parmasson:
Thank you robject. You seem to have a red spot there on your jacket.
Here is what you can do with your new Makhidkarun T-12/JM65 (tech level/URP code)
With 30 storage units your lone ship’s computer could have
Maneuver-1
Jump2-2
Maneuver/evade-3
Nav-1
Predtict3-1
Auto/evade-1
Return fire-1
Anti missle-2
Ecm-3
Gunner interact-1
Selective-3-1
Multi-target3-2
Launch-1
Anti missile-2
Library-4
I don’t recall book 8 saying they were any different. So since LBB 8 does not make a distinction neither do I.So you say that the LBB2 storage and "system resources" (proccessing) units are equal to the LBB8 ones?