On Jun 9, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Timothy Collinson <timothy.collinson@port.ac.uk> wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> Stupid question...
>
> I'm using the rule of thumb that says deck plans should have twice the
> number of squares of the tonnage.  So  a 400-ton ship would have 800
> one point five metre squares.  (I note that's now formally stated in
> T5.)
>
> So if I have four decks of 200 squares and a fuel deck (not shown on
> the plans) as well.  That's NOT a 400 ton ship but a 500 ton ship,
> right?  Or doesn't fuel space count for these purposes?

You need to have the fuel deck mapped, because how else will the PC’s have the thrilling firefight with the baddies swimming through liquid hydrogen? :-)

Seriously…the raison d’être for deckplans is so humans can put their little tokens ‘I’m here’. The ship is 500dT; the human-accessible space is 400.

It’s like the floor plan of my house…it does not include a layer for the roof, unless there’s a deck up there.

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