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<blockquote data-quote="Woas" data-source="post: 4494006" data-attributes="member: 16317">Just to update you all. So far myself an a few gaming buddies I have shown the book to are having a blast just making characters. I'm also having a blast rolling up random planets and comming up with reasons for all the parts to fit together.I've also been having fun making ships. But I was wondering how one goes about making a custom ship plan? The ship schematics that are present in the book are nice, but is there a way to create your own? For example, could you make a 100 dTon ship by using a piece of graph paper, assigning each block a tonnage and rearranging them? I just counted all the squares of the Type S and giving some wiggle room for the Fuel areas where I can't see the grid exactly, it does seem like there is only 100 boxes. Although - again using the standard Type S as an example - The PP, J-Drives and M-Drives should take up 16 tons of space but only take up 12 squares. Also the cargo area says 23 tons, but the cargo area only would have 12 tons.. unless theres some clause stating the ceiling was higher or something, effectively doubling the space. So it doesn't feel very scaled in some respects. But on the other hand, eye-balling the fuel area and overlaying an imaginary grid, there is 24 tons of fuel and it does look like it could be about that if 1 'square' was '1 ton'. Same with the staterooms.Or is it more free-form than that; draw a cool design and 'scale' the available room inside it. I mean technically if you took the plans of a Type S and just divided each box in two, you'd have a 200 dTon ship in a wedge shape...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Woas, post: 4494006, member: 16317"] Just to update you all. So far myself an a few gaming buddies I have shown the book to are having a blast just making characters. I'm also having a blast rolling up random planets and comming up with reasons for all the parts to fit together. I've also been having fun making ships. But I was wondering how one goes about making a custom ship plan? The ship schematics that are present in the book are nice, but is there a way to create your own? For example, could you make a 100 dTon ship by using a piece of graph paper, assigning each block a tonnage and rearranging them? I just counted all the squares of the Type S and giving some wiggle room for the Fuel areas where I can't see the grid exactly, it does seem like there is only 100 boxes. Although - again using the standard Type S as an example - The PP, J-Drives and M-Drives should take up 16 tons of space but only take up 12 squares. Also the cargo area says 23 tons, but the cargo area only would have 12 tons.. unless theres some clause stating the ceiling was higher or something, effectively doubling the space. So it doesn't feel very scaled in some respects. But on the other hand, eye-balling the fuel area and overlaying an imaginary grid, there is 24 tons of fuel and it does look like it could be about that if 1 'square' was '1 ton'. Same with the staterooms. Or is it more free-form than that; draw a cool design and 'scale' the available room inside it. I mean technically if you took the plans of a Type S and just divided each box in two, you'd have a 200 dTon ship in a wedge shape... [/QUOTE]

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