[TML] travel by freighter

[Tom B]

Stewards are crew in some construction systems. They're just a
different part. And "crew" still needs to eat and have someone taking
care of laundry, cleaning, etc.

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Jerry W Barrington
<jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you retain fractions, then 7 officers still calls for 7/8 of a Steward.
>  It only takes 7 Middle Passages/Crew added to that to push you over to
>  needing 1 Steward.
>
>  Interestingly, the round-down rule means 119 crew/passengers don't get a
>  Doctor.  :)
>
>  I think more realistic to the way laws are usually written, it would be
>  rounded *up*, but with an exemption for very low numbers.  In fact, I can't
>  see including crew & officers as *ever* requiring stewards by law.  Some of
>  the best lines may provide them, but it's an option.
>
>
>
>  On 4/10/08 6:34 PM, "Garry Ward" <garry.e.ward at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
>  >
>  > ----- Original Message -----
>  > From: "Tom B" <kaladorn at gmail.com>
>  > To: "The Traveller Mailing List" <tml at travellercentral.com>
>  > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 5:48 PM
>  > Subject: Re: [TML] travel by freighter
>  >
>  >
>  >> At what portion of a fraction do you go to zero though? 0.5? or ?
>  >>
>  >> This is what I was getting at - this sort of corner cutting is
>  >> designed to let you run on the cheap. So what are the practical limits
>  >> under various versions of Traveller ship construction (which
>  >> correspond with Imperial Regs, I imagine)?
>  >
>  > Same page says retain fractions during multi step calcs but at the end,
>  > round down.
>  >
>  > So, depending on how many officers the ship is running with (say the
>  > Captain/owner is also the Pilot/Astrogator), they'd have 7 or fewer High
>  > Passage cabins to avoid the Steward position.
>  >
>  > Of course, excluding any high passage cabins from the design would help.
>  > Offering nothing but middle passage would require even fewer stewards.
>  >
>  > Garry
>  >>
>  >> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Garry Ward
>  >> <garry.e.ward at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>>  ----- Original Message -----
>  >>>  From: "Tom B" <kaladorn at gmail.com>
>  >>>  To: "The Traveller Mailing List" <tml at travellercentral.com>
>  >>>  Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:07 PM
>  >>>  Subject: Re: [TML] travel by freighter
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>> Interesting.
>  >>>>
>  >>>> At what point do traveller ship construction metrics (I'm thinking of
>  >>>> MT construction - answers probably vary from construction ruleset to
>  >>>> ruleset) do you need to add that extra medic and/or steward? :)
>  >>>
>  >>>  one Steward for every 8 High Passage (ship'sofficers count towards
>  >>> this).
>  >>>
>  >>>  one Steward for every 50 Middle Passage (rest of ship's crew count
>  >>> towards
>  >>>  this).
>  >>>
>  >>>  Dedicated Medical person for every 120 persons aboard (middle, high or
>  >>>  crew).
>  >>>
>  >>>  TNE FF&S page 13
>  >>>
>  >>>  Garry
>
>
>
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