On Sat, 3 Oct 2020, 02:46 Thomas RUX, <xxxxxx@comcast.net> wrote:

Hi Phil,

On 10/02/2020 4:56 PM Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

The CT supp 'Trillion Credit Squadron' has a campaign option in which military budgetary yields are presented according to system mainworld characteristics.

Interestingly, there is no provision for 'hidden planets' so the stat seems to actually be a USP (universal SYSTEM profile) rather than a UPP.

(wasn't the acronym originally 'USP' in the original CT? ISTR that there were two 'USP's, one for ships & one for systems) 

In any case, there're lots & lots of ways to tailor the 3I's economics to produce just about any model desired.

I have looked in CT 1977 LBB1, 2, and 3 and as far as I can tell there is not mention of universal system/ship/personal/planet profile. CT 1977 LBB 2 p. 23 has an example of a data card used for combat.

I wonder if Phil meant the confusion between UPP as Universal Personality Profile amd Universal Planetary Profile?

Always use UWP (world) to avoid this!

Of course, USP also means Unique Selling Point which as it happens also describes ships.  We invariably describe them by just that.  'Free Trader', 'Fast Courier'....

tc

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That could be it, but what was the original acronym for a ship's stat line?

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