[gurps] My first experiments with Gurps Spaceships 4e - a Mecha

[Anthony Jackson]

Onno Meyer wrote:

> One of the problems is that the twenty available slots are used for
> both mass and volume, but five percent of the mass in armor won't
> come close to five percent of the volume, while five percent of the
> volume for passenger seats won't come close to five percent of the
> mass.

If you assume it includes various other medium to high density
components, such as life support, the density of passenger spaces isn't
horrible; it's probably still lower than the mean (which is 20-ish
lb/cf) but may be denser than, say, hydrogen tanks ;)

> Basically, an armor module and a passenger module should be able to
> share a 'system space' in the design, but that would lead to a
> complicated list of mix and match.

Alternately, you'd add a somewhat complex way of adjusting DR based on
what modules a ship has. That has the distinct virtue that you can do it 
at the end.