General Would you redesign the Patrol Cruiser?

[Spinward Scout]

I might have asked this before...

A while back, someone redesigned the Scout/Courier to have better access to the cargo hold and make the interior a little better.

I'm wondering if the same thing should be done with the Patrol Cruiser?

Anyone else think the front could use a redesign?

 

[Grav_Moped]

Type T Deckplans, Fixed (CotI thread by Your Humble Correspondent; thread includes 1"=3m plans with explanations.)

 

[AnotherDilbert]

It has been done.

E.g. recently, here:
https://www.travellerrpg.com/threads/fixing-the-type-t-deck-plans.42798/post-640779

 

[Grav_Moped]

EDIT: Looks like we posted simultaneously!

That was the "build thread" where I worked out what ended up as the "final design" thread linked in my simul-post.
Glad you remembered it!

EDIT 2-3: And you had some nearly-complete alternates in there as well.
(As did SpinFlow, and Rigel Stardin, among others -- but they're not online at the moment so I'll catch up with them later, or vice versa. )

It has been done.

E.g. recently, here:
https://www.travellerrpg.com/threads/fixing-the-type-t-deck-plans.42798/post-640779

 

[AnotherDilbert]

EDIT: Looks like we posted simultaneously!

Yes, quite. That was just recently, oops, two years ago.

 

[atpollard]

I might have asked this before...

A while back, someone redesigned the Scout/Courier to have better access to the cargo hold and make the interior a little better.

I'm wondering if the same thing should be done with the Patrol Cruiser?

Anyone else think the front could use a redesign?

I would start with a clean sheet of paper … it is one of the least attractive ships in my opinion (which is just my opinion).

 

[McPerth]

it is one of the least attractive ships in my opinion (which is just my opinion).

Well, I've always seen it not as a player's ship (as you say, not attractive as such), but as an opponent ship. A tool for the referee to keep players on line, so to say.

It's powerful enough as to deterre most players' ships without resorting to IN behemooths

Of couse, that's my view of it, not holy writ, and YMMV

 

[atpollard]

Well, I've always seen it not as a player's ship (as you say, not attractive as such), but as an opponent ship. A tool for the referee to keep players on line, so to say.

It's powerful enough as to deter most players' ships without resorting to IN behemoths

Of course, that's my view of it, not holy writ, and YMMV

No, I agree with most of that. Just to be clear, I have no problem with the stats (lots of ships could be improved) … it is the basic exterior image in The Traveller Book (my first introduction to Traveller) that I find ugly. New deckplans will not change that.

 

[Vargr Breath]

I think this could be just the ship for special missions. Like sending a Knight or other nobles on a mission to suppress weapons and terrorist agents being smuggling across the Solomani Rim.

 

[infojunky]

I'm wondering if the same thing should be done with the Patrol Cruiser?

I've never used the FASA Patrol Cruiser....

Though I have been pondering a deckplan for awhiles now.

 

[Spinward Scout]

I've never used the FASA Patrol Cruiser....

This one was in The Traveller Book.

 

[infojunky]

This one was in The Traveller Book.

After the FASA Deckplans came out... Though it is a Keith drawing...
Also note the Traveller Book came out like 5 years after I got my LBBs...

 

[mike wightman]

Like a lot of the military and paramilitary ships I redraw deckplans for, the bridge needs to be in the centre of the ship where it is most protected.

 

[Jame]

I found the Type T in Starter Traveller, which I found used in 2003 or '04. I enjoyed it immediately, and never saw any deckplans before I came here.

 

[kilemall]

I found the Type T in Starter Traveller, which I found used in 2003 or '04. I enjoyed it immediately, and never saw any deckplans before I came here.

The specs are a right size counter to the Corsair, but the rendering is a bug eyed alien dragonfly and is not pleasing or terrifying.

 

[Jame]

The specs are a right size counter to the Corsair, but the rendering is a bug eyed alien dragonfly and is not pleasing or terrifying.

I like dragonflies, so I think this is a case of beauty being in the eye of the beholder.

 

[atpollard]

I like dragonflies, so I think this is a case of beauty being in the eye of the beholder.

I agree. I dislike the look but recognize that there is NOTHING objective about my opinions ... just my personal preference. It reminds me of the T4 artwork and how people LOVED and HATED the Foss Artwork as "the best starships ever" ... or "that's not Traveller".

Strictly personal preferences.

 

[Condottiere]

 

[atpollard]

There is a long tradition of "bug eyes". Remember the blisters on the PBY Flying Boat? Remember that old Matchbox with dual bug-eyed canopies?

I just find it too "aircraft" for a Spacecraft in IMTU (like the X-Wing fighters of Star Wars).

 

[mike wightman]

I like dragonflies, so I think this is a case of beauty being in the eye of the beholder.

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