Mayday/Book 2

[Masconi]

Was there ever a computer version of the MAYDAY/CT Book 2 space battle system (turn-based, no real time junk)?
Maybe a fan project?

Masconi

 

[Golan2072]

Not that I know of.
What I'd like to see in this regard is, abouve all, a vector movement tracker; input the direction and thrust, and the program will calculate your vector and move your ship/missile across the virtual "board". Ofcourse, a full combat simulator would be nice and useful, but some players just like to roll their dice themselves (so a program with full combat simulation should have an "input die result" option).

 

[Tony Canopus]

Why isn't there a COTI Snapshot League?

 

[robject]

This sounds pretty cool...

 

[Golan2072]

Has anyone built an LBB2/Mayday vector tracker yet?

 

[Berg]

Check out this thread...

http://www.travellerrpg.com/cgi-bin/Trav/CotI/Discuss/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=51;t=000004

About half way down "The Engineer" has a program
called Test Drive hilighted to download.
It's not complete but interesting. I wonder
if the gentleman is working on it...

Tom

 

[Enoff]

Has anyone thought about using Vassal or Cyberboard to make a vector tracking game board? Someone has made a Triplanetary cyberboard gamebox. Its available on boardgamegeek.

 

[Berg]

I setup MapTool (a Virtual whiteboard/gametable) with Traveller tokens, a space background on a unbounded hex map.... works great!

 

[Enoff]

Hey looks cool!

 

[kaladorn]

Where'd you get the Traveller tokens? Or did you make them yourself?

 

[Berg]

Originally posted by kaladorn:
Where'd you get the Traveller tokens? Or did you make them yourself?

RPTools also has TokenTool for drag'n'drop token creation... some of those tokens should be recognizable to avid traveller art fans...

 

[robject]

There's a related (freeware) product called GameTable which has been out a couple years. It supports a networkable "whiteboard" RPG playing surface in Java. Nowhere near as full-featured as MapTool.