On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Timothy Collinson
<xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:

> However, one thing seems surprisingly out of line with what might I might
> expect and that's another large portion of the (so far) allotted tonnage.
> Command modules.  I have to have 5 sections (for space stations over 200,000
> tons) - that's fair enough.  I have to have one command module per section
> which also seems reasonable.  BUT each command module takes 0.2% of the
> station.  That's 2,000,000 tons *each*.  10 million tons total.  It seems
> way out of kilter for what's being described as essentially a starship
> bridge - although maybe somewhat bigger.  The cost (at MCr0.1 per ton) is
> also then a huge proportion of the cost (so far) at MCr1,000,000.  Yes,
> that's a million *megacredits*.  Thus far the whole thing only costs MCr3.3
> (pretty much all the rest of the cost is residential units).
>
> Am I doing something wrong?  Reading the rules incorrectly?  Doing the math
> wrong?  Anyone else run into this?

Yes, Mongoose doesn't do percentage base control tonnage, it comes in
the form of things like Command Modules. The two most recent editions
of Traveller are both allergic to math more complex than addition and
subtraction. So designs tend to be a little byzantine.

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Evyn