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Its been a little quiet here and in The Fleet board since T5 has been released. I'm tempted to start a discussion on the economic viability of pirates or what constitutes a turret in High Guard, just to get some attention :)

I've got my copy of T5 (thank you MM). I confess I haven't really dug into it though. I like the simple(ish) approach of CT with its wide open intellectual borders, unconstrained by tight interpretations of what this or that means.

In the same vein I wasn't really fussed on the CT errata project, which seemed to do the same for CT. In a way some of the charm was working out for yourself why certain things were broken. That charm is gone once an authority figure determines the answer. And so have the interesting discussions and hearing how other people dealt with them.

Not that that is the reason its quiet here. Everyone is playing with the new toy :) and that is as it should be.

Anyone want to discuss near C rocks or whether "Fighting Ships" is accurate, broken as in really broken, deliberately broken by the IINS or just a coffee table book. Or maybe jump masking, or how long a pirate career would last before capture, or how easy it is to chop shop small craft. Is inter-stellar bounty hunting really a viable career? How much effort would skip tracers put in before giving up? Should book# Robots play a much greater role in CT?
 
Its been a little quiet here and in The Fleet board since T5 has been released. I'm tempted to start a discussion on the economic viability of pirates or what constitutes a turret in High Guard, just to get some attention :)

I've got my copy of T5 (thank you MM). I confess I haven't really dug into it though. I like the simple(ish) approach of CT with its wide open intellectual borders, unconstrained by tight interpretations of what this or that means.

In the same vein I wasn't really fussed on the CT errata project, which seemed to do the same for CT. In a way some of the charm was working out for yourself why certain things were broken. That charm is gone once an authority figure determines the answer. And so have the interesting discussions and hearing how other people dealt with them.

Not that that is the reason its quiet here. Everyone is playing with the new toy :) and that is as it should be.

Several of the threads in the T5 subforum include lots of "here is a cool bit that I am going to use in my CT game" discussion.

Anyone want to discuss near C rocks or whether "Fighting Ships" is accurate, broken as in really broken, deliberately broken by the IINS or just a coffee table book. Or maybe jump masking, or how long a pirate career would last before capture, or how easy it is to chop shop small craft. Is inter-stellar bounty hunting really a viable career? How much effort would skip tracers put in before giving up? Should book# Robots play a much greater role in CT?

There is a discussion of skip tracing and repos currently going on in the IMTU subforum.

There was a Jump Occlusion discussion somewhere, too.

I find that it is usually easier for me to read this forum by using the "QuickLinks: Today's Posts" autosearch rather than reading individual subforums. YMMV.
 
There was a Jump Occlusion discussion somewhere, too.

Not to disappoint Matt, but it's on the T5 forum, and mostly seen from this prespective :devil:.

I also miss some discussion in other forums, but, as you say, it's the new toy, and is normal to play more with it tahtn with old ones.
 
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I think he was being sarcastic, spacebadger - picking topics that generate a lot of heat and smoke (and, therefore, posts). ;)

What I want to know is what everyone's thoughts are on whether a skip tracer could be precipitated out of jump early by the very ship he's pursuing, directly into a path of a near-C rock, and what the impact would be if he were in a "fighting ship"?
 
What I want to know is what everyone's thoughts are on whether a skip tracer could be precipitated out of jump early by the very ship he's pursuing, directly into a path of a near-C rock, and what the impact would be if he were in a "fighting ship"?

I believe it has happened from time to time, just no enough evidence has been left for it to be confirmed (even the best forensics are useless when only space dust remains...) :devil:.
 
I believe it has happened from time to time, just no enough evidence has been left for it to be confirmed (even the best forensics are useless when only space dust remains...) :devil:.

Hmmm you haven't been watching much TV lately I guess. Space dust projected in different directions from impact and probably have some chemical change to the material no mater how small? This guy could probably solve it.

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What I want to know is what everyone's thoughts are on whether a skip tracer could be precipitated out of jump early by the very ship he's pursuing, directly into a path of a near-C rock, and what the impact would be if he were in a "fighting ship"?

Which Fighting ship?

... I mean if it was a Gazelle without it's drop tanks, then:
1) The missing tonnage might allow the jump bubbles to merge and still be within the allowable tonnage of the jump drive.
2) the near C rock might hit the phantom tonnage that allows the hardpoints to remain (thus doing no damage).
3) What are the relative Navigation Skills of the crews of the two ships ... there may finally be a task that uses that skill in a roll.

:)

And of course, are there any Aslan with comfortable footwear involved?
 
Not quite.

Hmmm you haven't been watching much TV lately I guess. Space dust projected in different directions from impact and probably have some chemical change to the material no mater how small? This guy could probably solve it.

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the first part is correct. I dealt with evidence transfer in my Police Science courses and yep, nothing ever interacts with another thing without the two things leaving traces on each other. So good there, but the next bit I don't think so, he is fiction. In reality he is a bunch non-photogenic techs who collect the evidence and a computer array with lots peripherals and spanky algorithms.
 
NO! Say it isn't so!!! My life is ruined! My hero has turned into nothing but a Hollywood flunky mumbling esoteric nonsense with indecipherable scribbles on a corporate whiteboard :eek:

I knew it! the evil arch villain strikes again.
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I am reminded of a phrase my dad used when encountering superfluous information, offspring shenanigans, or general equine-flogging...

"What is this Mickey Mouse crap?!"

:p
 
Yep.

NO! Say it is so!!! My life is ruined! My hero has turned into nothing but a Hollywood flunky mumbling esoteric nonsense with indecipherable scribbles on a corporate whiteboard :eek:

I knew it! the evil arch villain strikes again.
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:devil: Me and Real Life rain on another parade. :p

Also, The Mouse.
 
I use 'Mickey Mouse' to refer to inferior quality, amateur efforts, as well as goofing off .. not sure why, but its part of my vocabulary.

Ironically, given its huge impact on 'IP' laws, that little doodle sure has impacted society in unexpected ways. [Hmmm... Mickey might actually be a rat!]
 
I keep thinking how cool it would look as a battle patch on a well used powered armor battlesuit. Yo bro don't mess with the maus! :nonono:
 
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