Hi all,

I'm working my way through J. Andrew Keith's Complete Starport Supplementary Material for MT published in Far & Away No. 1 April 1990 pp. 20-25.

I am putting together a spreadsheet to automate the process and I have gotten to the Repairs and Maintenance. During the build I've found one possible bit of errata and I need some help figuring out part of Repairs and Maintenance instructions.

Errata:

Traffic: "Traffic at a given starport is found by making a 2D6 die roll, applying a modifier given for the port type in question,and multiplying the result by 10. The result is a percentage of the berths at the port (from 0% to 150%) currently filled by available traffic.

On the Starport Contents Table a Port Type A has a Traffic DM of +4. If the 2D6 roll is 12 and the Port type is A DM is +4 then the percentage of berths filled is 16 x 10 = 160%. The DM for a Port Type A should be 3 versus 4 which will then  agree with the (from 0% to 150%).

Instructions:

"Repairs and Maintenance: ...A port which can provide Starship Construction is automatically able to provide any type of repairs for any shipboard system. If a port is able to provide Spaceship Construction, all systems except Jump Drive are automatically repairable at any level; use the table to determine if Jump Drive repairs are possible..."

Can a port with a Starship Construction facility provide repairs to spaceships?

My feeling is that a Starship Construction facility can repair all spaceship shipboard systems.

Can a Spaceship Construction facility provided repair to the jump drive provided it can pass the required target number from the Starport Contents Table on 2D6?

Tom Rux