On 2/6/2018 3:38 PM, Caleuche wrote:
> I think the more important thing is consistency rather than realism in
> many cases. Realism becomes useful because game rules can't account
> for everything and barring a specific rule players are likely to
> presume that objects would act as they do in reality. If you make it
> clear that faster than light communication is possible in your
> universe, and that rule applies to everyone equally, then it's fine.
>
> The thing is that Traveller explicitly excludes faster than light
> communication by any means other than jump drive, and if you can
> detect something (like "tachyons") faster than light you can
> communicate faster than light, so if you do something like that, make
> it clear that your Traveller Universe is different than the official
> one in that regard.
>

This isn't for a game, it's for something I've been writing.

But yes, I agree; there must be consistency.  Now, certain things can be
completely unknown by the players or population in general, like the
Emperor's pseudobiological robotic double, or the ImperialLines J-6
couriers that operate along the J-2 couriers, but so long as things are
consistently applied in the same manner, all should be good.

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Kurt Feltenberger
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