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<blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 2807163" data-attributes="member: 8158">Once it stops being a series and starts being an RPG, then you no longer have the luxury of just taking it easy and avoiding answering the obvious questions (even in a &quot;Gunsmoke&quot; RPG). If you have a character playing an engineer, he's probably going to want to have some idea of how a spaceship works. If you have characters trying to pull off get-rich-quick schemes, they're probably going to want to know something a ting or two about the economics system.Ans like I said, it's lame for non-scientific reasons as well.What are you talking about? Space is a BIG place. Are you familiar with the term &quot;light-year&quot;?&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh&nbsp; &nbsp; :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> FTL capability hardly equates to instantaneous travels. It's pretty much a baseline that needs to be met for a space opera to be at all practical (unless you come up with some silly contrivance where dozens of terraformable worlds are jammed into a single solar system). You can still have week and month-long trips. In fact, Voyager had FTL and they were still stuck decades away from known space.Well, the point I was initially making was that we had no way of knowing how fast ships travelled in Firefly--other than the simple fact they had to be flying at a pretty &quot;flashy&quot; speeds to manage interplanetary travel at all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Felon, post: 2807163, member: 8158"] Once it stops being a series and starts being an RPG, then you no longer have the luxury of just taking it easy and avoiding answering the obvious questions (even in a "Gunsmoke" RPG). If you have a character playing an engineer, he's probably going to want to have some idea of how a spaceship works. If you have characters trying to pull off get-rich-quick schemes, they're probably going to want to know something a ting or two about the economics system. Ans like I said, it's lame for non-scientific reasons as well. What are you talking about? Space is a BIG place. Are you familiar with the term "light-year"? :heh: FTL capability hardly equates to instantaneous travels. It's pretty much a baseline that needs to be met for a space opera to be at all practical (unless you come up with some silly contrivance where dozens of terraformable worlds are jammed into a single solar system). You can still have week and month-long trips. In fact, Voyager had FTL and they were still stuck decades away from known space. Well, the point I was initially making was that we had no way of knowing how fast ships travelled in Firefly--other than the simple fact they had to be flying at a pretty "flashy" speeds to manage interplanetary travel at all. [/QUOTE]

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