T20 ship design templates

[mananan]

Does anyone know of a useful template to take some of the tedium out of ship design? Just talking about a preconfigured way of keeping track of the numbers - a spreadsheet would be just the ticket.

 

[far-trader]

I was hoping to find a copy of Andrew Moffatt-Vallance's excellent beta build of his High-Guard Shipyard program somewhere on the net. It was pretty good and had a selection choice for either T20 rules or CT Book 5 rules (with a Book 2 crew option rule). I know I've got a copy squirreled away here somewhere but that doesn't help much at all. Andrew still checks in here now and then (user Andrewmv) so he might see this and have a link to or be able to upload his beta version here. Or you could try emailing him though I'm not sure how current this addy is: a.vallance@netaccess.co.nz

Come to think now it might be on one of the yahoo groups too. I'll have a look later.

Until then you could try the version just prior to that (iirc). See the link below. It has the T20 select button but it's non-functional. However the differences between HG and T20 are not too great. Building in HG is close to T20 and playing with it will get you used to the program for if/when the beta version with T20 functionality is found.

http://www.downport.com/amv/software/software.html

EDIT: Yes! It (HGS beta with T20 function) is on the CT Starships Yahoo Group (http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/ct-starships/files/). You might have to join to access the files to get it.

 

[mananan]

Finally got access, and a moment to download and play with it.

Excellent!

Thank you for the tip, saved me quite a while.