MGT Only: In MgT2e+, can you put 3 items on the turret for the Scout/Courier?

[Spinward Scout]

I seem to remember there was a restriction on a Scout/Courier that only 2 items can be put on the turret because of the computer or some such.

Is that still a rule in the current version of Traveller?

I'd like to put a Pulse Laser, and Missile Launcher, and a Sandcaster on the Scout/Courier.

But will that work with the computer it comes with?

 

[Condottiere]

Currently, differently priced turrets have one to four turret weapon system slots.

Default for the Scout/Courier is a double turret.

If you want to increase the number of weapon slots, you'll have to replace it.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Currently, differently priced turrets have one to four turret weapon system slots.

Default for the Scout/Courier is a double turret.

If you want to increase the number of weapon slots, you'll have to replace it.

So, you could replace the stock double turret with one having double that capacity.

Great. Now I'm hungry.
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[Condottiere]

Quad.

 

[Badenov]

Quad.

My doctor will scold me for even looking at this delicious thing. I'm sure it's mere presence on the planet clogs arteries for miles in every direction.

 

[MichaelSTee]

My doctor will scold me for even looking at this delicious thing. I'm sure it's mere presence on the planet clogs arteries for miles in every direction.

My internet is slowing down just because of this...

 

[Condottiere]

 

[whartung]

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a cars trunk filled with CD-ROMs.

 

[coliver988]

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of course, now in 2026 with gigabit speeds being the norm in most places with enough people, I think the Winston will have to carry more than 4GB

(and I found out that years ago they standardized megabyte and gigabyte for drives and things to be actually 1 million, 1 billion, and not a power of 2. so a KB is now 1000 bytes, not 1024. explains why drives have less storage than I think they should! back in my day [mumbles the old man] a megabyte was a megabyte!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte

 

[Condottiere]

It might not be the fastest, nowadays, even with terabyte flash drives.

However, it might be the securest.

 

[aramis]

It might not be the fastest, nowadays, even with terabyte flash drives.

However, it might be the securest.

Depends upon intervening persons skill in shotgun.

 

[Grognard_1]

So, you could replace the stock double turret with one having double that capacity.

Yeah, you could put a Quad Turret on it.

 

[Spinward Scout]

(and I found out that years ago they standardized megabyte and gigabyte for drives and things to be actually 1 million, 1 billion, and not a power of 2. so a KB is now 1000 bytes, not 1024. explains why drives have less storage than I think they should! back in my day [mumbles the old man] a megabyte was a megabyte!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte

Did your hard drive have to work up hill, both ways?

 

[coliver988]

Did your hard drive have to work up hill, both ways?

yes, and in the snow.

and my wife & I were talking about that actually: her school buses would put on chains when it snowed, and we only had snow days if there were at least a few inches of snow. Now if they just forecast snow school gets cancelled. Of course, where I grew up was mostly flat, so it was never that bad but now I live in western North Carolina outside Asheville and there are some steep roads and sharp turns. A lot more dangerous than suburban Maryland!

 

[kilemall]

Did your hard drive have to work up hill, both ways?

Never lived old school IT until you had a full pack head crash.

 

[aramis]

Never lived old school IT until you had a full pack head crash.

Tape coming apart during on-site backup....
sneakernetting the install disks across three machines for near simultaneous reinstall of MSDOS, Netware, and WFW3.11....
Ethernet over Co-axial cable... and physical plant staff strung it twixt video-standard (RG6? F-Connector?) and all the cards have BNC... and you don't own a crimper. (It's amazing how the inside of the handles of snips can be used to crimp F-connector and BNC connector...)
Boss wants a 120 m 10-base-T on 8-wire... with a router limited to 80m. (Ah, the joys of walking 3 blocks to buy a repeater with petty cash.)
Having to build your own RJ-11/RJ-12 conversion cables for phone-net on an apple lab because the employer is too damned cheap to pay the extra $125 per mac for RJ-45 100-B-T
Having to buy a 14" long T15 Torx screwdriver and guitar picks to upgrade your RAM.

 

[Deldarius]

Hard disc platters the size of lp's, capacity 4Mb and punch cards!

 

[FreeTrav]

(and I found out that years ago they standardized megabyte and gigabyte for drives and things to be actually 1 million, 1 billion, and not a power of 2. so a KB is now 1000 bytes, not 1024. explains why drives have less storage than I think they should! back in my day [mumbles the old man] a megabyte was a megabyte!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte

Yes, but that was only part of the standardisation - they also created a bunch of "SI-binary" prefices for the binary versions: Kibibyte, 1024 bytes; Mebibyte, 1024*1024=1,048,576 bytes; Gibibyte, 1024 Mebibytes; Tebibyte, 1024 Gibibytes; Pebibyte, 1024 Tebibytes. Abbreviations KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, PiB. More info at Wikipedia:Byte, specifically at the subsections "Multiple-byte units" and "Units based on powers of 2 (IEC Prefixes)".

 

[Condottiere]

Western Digital has signalled hundred terabyte hard drives by the end of the decade.

 

[whulorigan]

Depends upon intervening persons skill in shotgun.

So just what does the latest major update to Spybot Search & Destroy look like . . .