On Apr 29, 2015, at 7:39 PM, xxxxxx@comcast.net wrote:
> May I send anything my digging into T4 that might be errata to Donald McKinney for review and hopefully inclusion in a future update to the Consolidated T4 Errata?

Absolutely!

I have the Word documents and master Excel spreadsheet for QSDS, so one option for fixes would be to produce a QSDS 1.6 document.  :-)

I also still have the QSDS Big Book of Hulls add-on that I used to make available on my web site.  QSDS as published included a variety of hulls designed to cover the standard Traveller starships and some widely-useful options.  The Big Book of Hulls lists hull data for every possible combination of tech level, configuration and streamlining, stressed for 3G and 6G, for every hull from 100 tons to 900 tons in 100-ton increments, and 1000 tons to 5000 tons in 1000-ton increments.

> If I have the right idea an AEMS with a short range of 480,000 km would convert to a USD of 5 and means that my use of Sensor Short Range divided by 30,000 km is out to lunch.  Looks like I will have to redesign my spreadsheet for sensors.

Let me know what comes out of that.  I haven't been able to find the sensor spreadsheet referenced in my QSDS notes; however I'm fairly certain that that (missing) spreadsheet is what generated the sensor systems data for QSDS and probably SSDS as well.

>>> One item I have not tried to figure out is the Crew requirement for the jump drive, maneuver drives, or the sensors. How where the crew requirements calculated for  the jump drive, maneuver drives, sensors, communicators, bay weapons, meson screens, and power plants?
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> Now I have another reason to work on the spreadsheets I'm creating.

Crew calculations involving the TL-dependent crew factor are probably the same as TNE FF&S.  Variation from this (for example, using TL-12 crew modifiers for the TL-9 bay meson gun) are probably my error, and should be included in errata.

Crew for drives (1 per 30 tons if under 50 tons, or 1 + 1 per 100 tons otherwise) is probably new for T4.  Drives using this rule almost all have an "oldCrew" column in my spreadsheet which uses the TNE FF&S crew calculation.

---Guy "Wildstar" Garnett
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