Sheridan Station Report

  Resources  : Resources are exploitable natural resources, minerals, ores, metals, energy sources, biological assets, and any other items of limited availability. -  T5, Book3, p.27 Resources = 2d6 + (if TL>8) + GG + PB = (2 – 12) + (0 – 4) + (0 – 3) = Range 2 – 19, AVG ~ 9- 10 Glimmerdrift Reaches GWP compare Nobody seems to have taken the components of the T5 Economic Extension, specifically the Resource value, and discussed it outside of Resource Units. How many “Raw” Resources does a planet need to be self-sufficient, to be poor, to be rich? I’m not using the T5 RU formula in MTU, I think it needs to be tweaked. But I decided to look at the components, starting with Resources. My goal is to use the data from T5 to tweak my Striker based GWP model, because I still can’t spend RU’s at a shipyard. Consider two worlds,  Alpha  with a population of 3 million and  Beta  a population of 2 billion, both with a Raw Resource score of 12. That’s  40...

These are my own thoughts on Traveller (R) rules and house rules under development Striker vs. TCS vs. NATO -or- Your TCS Navy is Too Damn Big Suddenly NATO is relevant again, reminds me of 1981. I’m working on a campaign in the Gateway Quadrant circa 1004, and I want to pull together some baseline navies for the multitude of pocket empires that QLI and DGP left behind, which survive into the Travellermap. I’m looking for gameplay, not Keynesian Economic Models, i.e. a modicum of inputs and a range of outputs to be tailored by the referee to fit the game you want.   Let’s start with a comparison of Trillion Credit Squadron (TCS) and Striker. Striker presented a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Model, renamed GWP for Gross World Product.   It went like this: Citizen Income determined by Tech Level x Trade Modifiers (TRAD) x Referee Military Budget (MILBUD) x Branch Allocation (BRALLOC) in CR x Population.   Furthermore a lower TL world, could purchase higher TL...