Clement Sector? Yes, ships above 2000 tons have a chance of failure (dropping out of Zimmspace somewhere along the route, which is almost certainly bad) and ships above 5000 tons can't travel that way.Cephus does that? In their system, I think? They don't restrict the size, they just make the large ships difficult to travel through their waypoints or whatever they are.
What's a zimmspace?Clement Sector? Yes, ships above 2000 tons have a chance of failure (dropping out of Zimmspace somewhere along the route, which is almost certainly bad) and ships above 5000 tons can't travel that way.
It’s like zooming, only zimming. See?What's a zimmspace?
I always get them confused.Clement Sector?
Similar thought process in mine. The justification is that players on the frontier, and infrastructure isn't there to support larger vessels. Plus, I like the aesthetics of a small-ship game better.Anything bigger than about 1000-tons shows up only as an NPC ship and usually just for background. Player ships are almost always smaller than the 1000-ton size simply because they can't afford to operate anything bigger.
Now, if you were playing Traveller as a wargame rather than an RPG, yea bigger stuff is going to show up a lot in larger battles and such, but that's a different animal.
I agree, my PCs, if they have a ship at all, it is not a large ship. 300 ton Far Trader maybe.Similar thought process in mine. The justification is that players on the frontier, and infrastructure isn't there to support larger vessels. Plus, I like the aesthetics of a small-ship game better.
TL | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
hull max | 800t | 1,600t | 2,000t | 2,400t | 3,000t | 3,600 | 12,000t |
I don't see the point, you just get more of them...Does anyone restrict the max size of ships in their Traveller universe?
CT ≠ LBB2 alone.I stick with CT for the most part with a couple of fudges.
I can accept the letter drive ones but LBB5/TCS is a different critter.CT ≠ LBB2 alone.
Note that in LBB2 ships or shipyards don't have TLs.
Used ship components don't have to be local. As long as someone can build LT-15 drives, all shipyards can use them.
Even Kinorb (A663659-5) [Regina 602] can build starships...
Agreed, LBB5 is a completely different ballgame.I can accept the letter drive ones but LBB5/TCS is a different critter.
Does anyone restrict the max size of ships in their Traveller universe?
Depends, there has been a lot of discussion of Small ship and Large ship universes here over the years.Was thinking the other day, and realized I did not know of any for sure.
Does anyone restrict the max size of ships in their Traveller universe?
Artificially keep the ships smaller, if so, what is your max size ships?
Just curious about it.![]()