On Apr 30, 2015, at 11:35 AM, xxxxxx@comcast.net wrote:
> When I could not find my QSDS 1.5e my searching led me to BITS archive and found this: QSDS v1.5.1

I'm pretty sure that the BITS archive QSDS 1.5.1 is my version 1.5e.
This version fixed the HEPlaR fuel consumption.

> Producing QSDS 1.6 may help to bring others into using T4 QSDS for quick ship design.

Agreed; once we have a set of errata for QSDS, I'll make a version 1.6 that includes all of them, and we can forward it to Don for inclusion ion the T4 errata package.

> Another thank you is in order for the work and the BITS archive has QSDS Big Book of Hulls

That's the one!

> QSDS 1.5e has the active sensor of the TL-10 through TL-12 medium military package as being A16. Using the equation 3 km x 10^16 equals 30,000,000,000,000,000 km. The best TNE FF&S Active sensor short range is 480,000 km provided by the AEMS. Doing a reverse lookup on the chart above the Active USD is 5 not 16.
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> As mentioned earlier when I converted the 480,000 km to TNE Space Combat hexes using the equation Short Range 480,000 km divided by one 30,000 km combat hex I was able to match the QSDS A16 USD value.
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> Where did I go off the track here.

I don't think you went off track - if what you were doing before was producing reasonable values, then by all means go with it.  My notes are out of context, and while this could have been something we were considering, it is quite possible that we didn't wind up using it in the end.

So my suggestion would be to ignore

> TNE FF&S Step 9. Crew & Life Support Crew Requirements.
> Engineering Crew Ce = (Power Plant Peak Output MW x Computer Control Multiplier) / 30

Yes, that matches the "oldCrew" computation in my spreadsheet.  The Crew values in QSDS are based off of the "Crew" computation in the spreadsheet, which uses the =IF(Tons<50,Tons/30,1+Tons/100) computation.  So I think that at some point Marc gave us the new computation for engineering crew.

This has the effect of increasing the required crew for small ships, and drastically reducing it for larger ships.

> Electronics Crew Cl = (Number of Installed Communicators + Number of Installed Sensors) x Computer Control Multiplier

Yes.

> Maneuvering Cm = 1 if a maneuver drive installed or 1 if a jump drive is installed, or 2 if both a jump drive and maneuver drive is installed

Yes.  This is covered on QDS page 19, Maneuver Crew.  Starships (ships with a jump drive installed) require an astrogator, and any spacecraft with a maneuver drive requires a Pilot.

> How about this to explain the crew. The TL-9 meson gun bay has been upgraded to TL-12 standards which changed the crew requirements.:-)

Sounds good to me.  But it should probably be fixed in errata.

> To be honest I have not gone back to the jump and maneuver drives to check their crew requirements yet, but I have started checking out the crew requirement for the sensors. Unfortunately, I am having a problem with the Basic crew calculation. [...] Have I missed something?

No - My error transcribing data.  For #sensors, Basic=2, Improved=2, Small Military=4, Medium Military=5.

Formulae are transcribed below (Excel will not let me paste formulas directly):
  CrewBasic==2*VLOOKUP(TL,CrewSizeMod,2,FALSE)
  CrewImproved==2*VLOOKUP(TL,CrewSizeMod,2,FALSE)
  CrewSmallMilitary==4*VLOOKUP(TL,CrewSizeMod,2,FALSE)
  CrewMediumMilitary==5*VLOOKUP(TL,CrewSizeMod,2,FALSE)

---Guy "Wildstar" Garnett
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