Star Wars Sim OOC Discussion Thread

[BigJKU316]

Here

[Tsukiyumi]

Question: I know you covered the lane-based travel system (which is great, btw), but what about hyperdrive ratings? As in, most ships seem to be rated at a 2, but some ships are 1's, and certain ships (like the Millenium Falcon) are rated 0.5 (the smaller the number, the faster).

Are you going to incorporate a speed system?

[BigJKU316]

Yes, but speed works in reverse for simplicity sake.

All ships are rated 1-10 in FTL speed. 10 can travel 10 units (call them Mega-Parsecs or something) in a day. The map is scaled to be about 350 units across on its X-Y axis (in the most direct routes which you would rarely take). So you can get just about anywhere with faster ships in a month or two.

[Tsukiyumi]

Cool. Just read that part in the guidelines.

[stitch626]

What of planets that have minor commodities (such as Naboo's high grade plasma and rare wine)? How would those be brought it?

[BigJKU316]

All trade goods are distilled to a simple value known as Trade Goods which for the purpose of the sim just equals cash. It is cash you earn outside of taxes so Naboo would have a value like 750,000 or something which is just pure profit for the player.

The only directly traded resources for players are hypermatter, tibanna gas and military grade ore.

[stitch626]

Makes sense. Good way of doing it too.


Um... might have missed it in the rules thread, but what determines a small, medium, large ship?

Like, give examples in each category please.

[BigJKU316]

A medium ship would be a Victory Class Star Destroyer.

A big ship would be something slightly larger than an Imperial Class ship.


There are 5 classes of ships, determined by size.

Corvettes (think CR-90)
Frigates (Think Nebulon B)
Destroyers (Victory Class)
Cruisers (ISD, MC-90)
Dreadnaughts (SSD's)

Anyone who can build big ships can build up to the Cruiser weight ships. Medium ships means up to destroyers.

[stitch626]

Awesome thank you.

[Lighthawk]

There was something in the rules about starfighter classes. The impression I got was that class 3 are bombers, and class 1 light fighters. Would that make class 2 dual role?

[BigJKU316]

Sort of. It is explained on the design sheet itself but basically class 1 fighters won't have a hyperdrive or heavy missiles. Type 2 can have most things but not the heaviest missiles or some specialized equipment that class 3 things could carry. Class 3 craft can carry things like boarding equipment and assault equipment that allows them to ferry troops around independent of their capitol ships.

[Lighthawk]

So...
1: Tie Fighter
2: X-wing
3: Millennium Falcon

[BigJKU316]

So...
1: Tie Fighter
2: X-wing
3: Millennium Falcon

More like

Tie Fighter
X-Wing
B-Wing/K-Wing/Tie Bomber

But yeah, you pretty much have it. You could in theory use all the space on a big class 3 fighter to make a very big, fast and well armed interceptor. But it is probably not the best use of your space.

[Lighthawk]

More like

Tie Fighter
X-Wing
B-Wing/K-Wing/Tie Bomber

But yeah, you pretty much have it. You could in theory use all the space on a big class 3 fighter to make a very big, fast and well armed interceptor. But it is probably not the best use of your space.

Probably not, but it could be fun...

Thanks

[Tyyr]

I disagree.