[gurps] AI's in GURPS (was Failing autopilots and RVO)

Onno Meyer Onno.Meyer at gmx.de
Sat Mar 7 01:35:05 CST 2009


Douglas replied to me:
> > And GURPS Traveller combines less-than-room-size computers (as
> > opposed to Classic Traveller) with little or no AI outside of
> > niche societies. Both work under the GURPS rules ...
> 
> One person said that the ships have super computer and that the size
> listed includes cooling systems. In space it is very hard to cool off.

The computers on a typical GURPS Traveller starship are 375 lbs. 
and 7.5 cf. Classic Traveller has computers between 1 and 9 tons, 
but those are displacement tons (500 cf each). 

That helped to bring Traveller from the 70s to the 90s.


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