Thu 22 Aug 2019, 23:07
I picked up a few things:
p150 'Ion thruster build speed up...' should be 'thrusters'
p151 'Stasis protects space travelers from the NDD, with the added..' should be 'NDDs' to be consistent with the other references in the chapter?
p161 The paragraph starting 'Conversion rates are always in flux' is missing a line-break above it.
p162 The chart of weekly salary ranges should be clearer if the values were separated by a hyphen, eg: $500 - $640. Also the descriptions under 'Includes but is not limited to' should all start with capital letters in order to be consistent with other tables in the chapter, eg: Miners, prospectors, farmers...
p171 Under the heading 'Tractor hitch': 'weighing over a million 100,000 tons' - two issues here are mixing written numbers and numerals, and I'm not sure what number you're trying to get at - do you mean one hundred thousand million, ie: 100,000,000,000?
p172 The chart, for 'Corporate Suite' the price is missing commas, ie: $1 000 000 should be $1,000,000
p196 Final sentence of the 'Fire weapon' paragraph, the 'success' symbol has rendered as 'ÄÄ' in my version of the PDF instead of the icon.
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Comments more generally:
When reading about FTL travel it suddenly occurred to me that it would be really weird to be able to travel faster than light, but for communications not to be able to. I was interested to see that the 'Communications' section does address this, but only very briefly under 'Communications array': '...some for interstellar FTL communications and others for intrasystem communication'. This is the only reference that faster than light communication is even possible. Presumably it's glossed over because it's less interesting from the perspective of playing the game (perhaps communication arrays use quantum entanglement, or maybe its safe to send signals through miniature wormholes but not people...)
It would be good to reference the 'Planetfall' section on p167 from the Piloting skill description. I remember that the cinematic starter PDF basically suggested that if you failed your piloting roll when landing you 'crash and burn', whereas this section is a lot more detailed! (3 successive failures!). Maybe that'll be different in the final version of the rules though [=