Hey all, long time lurker.
Bottom line up front, I'm wondering if I have a bad copy of GVB or am just doing something wrong. I'm trying to learn how to use GVB. I've tried to do the three tutorials in the help file. So I understand the basic concept of work one subassembly to completion by the various data input methods and how to toggle through the different repositories. I think I'm missing data though. I said I tried to do the three because when I pressed F8 to open the repositories for the TL10 Beowulf, my folder in the dialog box was empty. At first I didn't think much of it, "I don't play Traveller, anyway," and went on to the Synthia tutorial. In that tutorial, I was missing the laser weapon sight from step 8. I thought maybe it was just mislabeled as the laser periscope. Dragged and dropped and moved on. I got to the end and checked the Vehicle Performance Statistics for her and everything was zeros across the board. Shouldn't she have had some kind of ground speed at a minimum? So now I'm trying my first vehicle of my own. I'm trying to build a battlesuit that I need for my upcoming game. Then it starts looking to me like a lot of things in the Mecha and Robots books aren't there. Specifically, mini-missiles (and the laser weapon sight on the Synthia tutorial) are what brought it to my attention. I've tried switching to the different repositories and clicked through each of them but I've not found anything other than 60mm mini launcher and 60mm lt. SRGMs. Loosely related, conceptually, when I build vehicles with a weapon, I have to build the weapon/launcher and then add ammunition/payload, correct? Which leads to another question, I know that I can put them in with custom weaponry, but I'm more than a little daunted by the formulas necessary to do that. Is there a reference for them anywhere? I've scoured my Vehicles, Robots and Mecha books and been unable to find them, but I have not gone through to reread cover to cover, so I might have missed them. Or is GVB not really designed to build very robust mecha and robots and I'm trying to squeeze orange juice out of a banana? Thanks for any help, Eddie _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
