Traveller?

[RealAlHazred]

Nice Mars probe you had there. Shame about what happened to it.

TOO SOON!

Press "F" to pay respects.

F

 

[Sanguinarious]

Nice Mars probe you had there. Shame about what happened to it.

So how many mars Probes is Europe landing?

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

So how many mars Probes is Europe landing?

Lithobraking is not quite the same thing as landing.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Marc signed off on GT and Traveller for Hero... both of which are fully deterministic. And on MGT 1E including a fully deterministic mode option.
I'm pretty certain that playing at his table would involve random gen, but he'd not at all be upset by someone else doing full deterministic point builds.

Not to put too fine a point on it but--Marc isn't here. Wouldn't be the first time an game author is okay with things the fans are pretty hostile to, and if that was going to be the case I don't have the spoons to argue with people about it, so I thought asking up-front was better.

 

[Baron Opal II]

Nice Mars probe you had there. Shame about what happened to it.

Oh... you went there...

Well, this would be the thread for it.

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

Oh... you went there...

Well, this would be the thread for it.

Someone rolled bad on their Pilot check. They shouldha got someone from the Navy with at least a Pilot 3 rating.

 

[Sanguinarious]

Lithobraking is not quite the same thing as landing.

So how many probes has Europe sent to mars with it's mighty metric system?

I don't object to metrics, I object to it being forced on people as has happened in many countries where once metrics got a foothold imperial measurements were all but banned if not actually banned. I kinda like having valid choices.

But let gurps use the imperial system and oh, metric users feel put upon.

 

[pemerton]

I don't object to metrics, I object to it being forced on people

All measurement systems in use today are standardised by regulatory bodies and "forced" on people. Likewise currency. Perhaps to a lesser extent, written language also.

That ship sailed around 200 years ago.

 

[Sanguinarious]

All measurement systems in use today are standardised by regulatory bodies and "forced" on people. Likewise currency. Perhaps to a lesser extent, written language also.

That ship sailed around 200 years ago.

Yes and nost Americans have decided not to let it be forced on them.

When we heard about people in England and Canada being fined for selling a 'pound' of things because they catered to older people used to pounds instead of kilos we decided to say no to it.

Anyway metrics are still here. Medicine is usually measured in milligrams, or spoons if ljquid. Soda and some other non alcoholic drinks are sold in liters, yeah we still use pints and gallons too. Lots of tools are measured in metrics and in fractions of inches. Lots of popular guns are sold in mm measurements.

The drug culture in America has been metric for decades. So has the military.

Sure we still use old standard for a lot of things, I buy milk and gas in gallons, what's it to you? If gurps being in imperial bothers you you're just out a good system. You don't have to dig at people who don't do everything your way. Makes you seem kinda intolerant.

Btw don't pubs in England still sell beer in 'pints'?

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

Yes and nost Americans have decided not to let it be forced on them.

When we heard about people in England and Canada being fined for selling a 'pound' of things because they catered to older people used to pounds instead of kilos we decided to say no to it.

Anyway metrics are still here. Medicine is usually measured in milligrams, or spoons if ljquid. Soda and some other non alcoholic drinks are sold in liters, yeah we still use pints and gallons too. Lots of tools are measured in metrics and in fractions of inches. Lots of popular guns are sold in mm measurements.

The drug culture in America has been metric for decades. So has the military.

Sure we still use old standard for a lot of things, I buy milk and gas in gallons, what's it to you? If gurps being in imperial bothers you you're just out a good system. You don't have to dig at people who don't do everything your way. Makes you seem kinda intolerant.

Btw don't pubs in England still sell beer in 'pints'?

I HATE to tell you, but the metric system (SI) IS the legal standard system of the US, period. All regulations and official measures of all sorts are entirely metric. The Imperial system used in common parlance by many people is merely a thin veneer!

In any case, official weights and measures are not about the way people describe a 'pint' or whatnot. There's little advantage in bothering to try to dictate such things, as it really has next to nothing to do with anything at all really. The US has a fairly pragmatic compromise. Everything that is measured for some purpose or other is done in SI, and people in their houses, cars, etc. can do what they want and politicians fear not of getting them agitated.

However, slowly but surely the metric system is gaining traction as a common system that people use everyday. I mean, really distance and weight/volume (which are generally conflated anyway) are almost all that's left of the old system. People still use 'horsepower' in a few niche cases, but that's mostly cars, which will all be electric (and thus measured in kilowatts soon enough anyway). Heck, my wife couldn't even tell you if 72 degrees Fahrenheit was hot or cold anyway! Same with all the Indians I work with. Nowadays if you want to talk to people, you better be able to speak metric!