AnotherDilbert
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So, your proposed formula is inconsistent with RAW.
The Drive Potential Table is a table, not a linear function.
OTU Only: Gypsy Queen Class Fast Merchant, LBB2, 199Td, J26GP7
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The Drive Potential Table is a table, not a linear function.
Spinward Flow
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You can lead a man to water ...
I've got the rules mysticism thing going. RAW is the tables and nothing else -- these are the only possible drives, and they behave exactly as listed in the table. That's fine.
The difference here is that I see the tables as a set of point cases of the underlying in-universe engineering principles, and possibly an inexactly recorded one at that -- with the deviations being for out-of-universe reasons of playability. The tables are useful.
Not really -- and that gets to what I really like about the LBB2/3 paradigm: at all tech levels, there is a tradeoff between size and performance; higher tech just pushes out the curve along which those tradeoffs happen. LBB5 doesn't have the size/performance tradeoff -- it's solely driven by TL and budget.
Also, the Type S Scout/Courier, Type A Free Trader, and XBoat are "natural" outcomes of LBB2, but aren't ones from LBB5. (S: Smallest drives, smallest hull; A: biggest hull that the smallest drives can push; X: the biggest jump drive that can go into the smallest hull leaves no room for an M-Drive.)
LBB5's minimal ship is 100Td, J1/1G. Is it a scoutship? might be, might not -- but there'd be a lot of them. Much less demand for J2/2G in 100Td if that's not the minimum viable starship any longer. And, is there any reason for a general-purpose scoutship to be J2/2G, and not, say, J3, or 5G? The basic merchant ship will be J1/1G but why would it be 200Td in particular, especially without Standard Hull discounts? The main messenger fleet ship isn't necessarily going to be J4 (depending on available TL) and it will almost certainly have a maneuver drive. And so forth.
