Vehicle Design Challenge: The Rules

[Pickles]

Originally posted by atpollard:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by the Bromgrev:
Say, for the next one, how about a vehicle design competition?

You said it first, so don't leave it hanging. What are the details of the vehicle design competition? System? Size? TL? Stats? Graphics?Where to post it? When to post by? </font>[/QUOTE]That'll teach me to open my big mouth. Well, here it is. I can't promise that I'll even be able to participate, but I'll give it a try.

THE RULES:

1) You may use any official Traveller vehicle design rules - but no house rules, please. This is to level the playing field.

2) Any design goes. There will probably be a civilian and military category to enable fair judgement of like-for-like. But try to be as original as possible.

3) You don't have to produce graphics - but bear in mind that a pretty picture does a lot to sell your design.

4) Team efforts are welcome, as long as everyone involved is acknowledged.

5) Don't post your design yet! Once you're done, PM me and I'll give you an email to send it to. I'll post all the designs here after the entry deadline.

6) The deadline for emailing your designs to me has been extended to 31st May 2007 by popular demand.

7) There will be a time-limited poll to choose the winners of the various categories, which are yet to be decided on. Probably running throughout June (because I'll be in Japan then, with no computer).

Right, any questions? This thread is just for discussing the actual competition, remember - don't post your designs here. I'll bump it from time to time - although it would be great if it could be stickied ...

 

[Golan2072]

Originally posted by the Bromgrev:

1) You may use any official Traveller vehicle design rules - but no house rules, please. This is to level the playing field.

Does that rule out Striker's errata and the various JTAS articles adding rules to Striker (such as the motorcycle rules) as well?

Also, how many entries are allowed per contestant?

 

[Border Reiver]

Yay, here we go.

 

[atpollard]

Originally posted by Employee 2-4601:
Also, how many entries are allowed per contestant?

It might be interesting to say 1 design per Traveller version to get a little variety (CT, MT, TNE, T4, T20, GT).

 

[Pickles]

I don't want to limit the number of entries per entrant - the more, the better. After all, this is just a cynical ploy to get more useful stuff for the players ...

The official Striker errata (I presume you mean that which came in the box?) is definitely ok. I don't know about the JTAS articles, they sound ok to me - what's the consensus on those?

 

[Golan2072]

Originally posted by the Bromgrev:
The official Striker errata (I presume you mean that which came in the box?) is definitely ok.

Yes, originlly it was included in the boxed set, and currently it is available here.

 

[Pickles]

WELL?! Where are all the entries?

 

[atpollard]

I need to ask for everyone’s opinions on something:

I was thinking about combining the MT tank and APC (grav) into a single vehicle that could land troops, act as fire support, and bunk the infantry in relative safety. It was inspired by the recent discussions on updating the Broadsword. The problem is the vehicle will need to straddle the 20 dTon gap between a “small craft” launch and a grav combat “vehicle” in MT.

My gut instinct is that it is too big for this contest, and I should save it for somewhere else. I just wanted to hear your thoughts.

PS. I still have that “space chopper” concept floating around. I never did finish it.

 

[ravells]

Originally posted by the Bromgrev:
WELL?! Where are all the entries?

I'm working on it! There's still plenty of time!

Ravs

 

[Pickles]

Originally posted by atpollard:
The problem is the vehicle will need to straddle the 20 dTon gap between a “small craft” launch and a grav combat “vehicle” in MT.

My gut instinct is that it is too big for this contest, and I should save it for somewhere else.

Nuts to that. As long as it's designed with vehicle rules, it's in. The last thing we need is to restrict the field.

Originally posted by atpollard:
PS. I still have that “space chopper” concept floating around.

Heeheehee ...

Originally posted by ravs:
I'm working on it! There's still plenty of time!

That's what every undergraduate says ... until the deadline hits!

 

[ravells]

And it's always too soon

 

[Pickles]

Roll up! Expressions of interest by PM, Please!

 

[Pickles]

And we have ... two expressees (expressors?)! Or three, maybe. Still room for more ...

 

[Kharum1]

Does battle dress count as a vehicle?

 

[atpollard]

To quote Bromgrev:
"Nuts to that. As long as it's designed with vehicle rules, it's in. The last thing we need is to restrict the field."

So ask yourself: Is it designed with the vehicle rules? There's your answer.

 

[veltyen]

Pretty much anything you want to do is fine.

These are open competitions. Whether you take an unoriginal idea and reflesh it out, for example take a G-carrier and write it up differently from elsewhere, or try something completely novel is up to you.

 

[Kharum1]

I used FF&S to design it. Just have to get the picture ready.

 

[far-trader]

Hmm, bit of a quandry here. I'm too busy trying to catch up on a few things to actually relearn the design rules (Striker seeming most appropriate but not looked at in ages) for what I want to do so I was gonna just go with the default LBB vehicle design rules Basically "make it up"

The CT MIU rules take one of two (or both) approaches:

1 - Compare a close LBB design and massage the data.

2 - Look at a real world vehicle and base it on that.

So, is that too "house rule" for this or should I fire up the keyboard?

 

[atpollard]

Originally posted by far-trader:
... Basically "make it up"

... So, is that too "house rule" for this or should I fire up the keyboard?

I think that you should make it up, post the data on a topic and let the gearheads tell you what the "Striker" or "Megatraveller" or "Fire, Fusion and Steel" values should be. Then enter your design edited with their values.

.. Especially if you had some specific graphics in mind to go with it.

 

[far-trader]

Clever mind reading there atpollard

It is primarily a graphics project.