Hi Timothy,
I hope your Christmas and New Year celebrations went well.
It was different as a last minute change by the government (I mean, just a few days before when provisions were already bought) meant we couldn't go to my parents.
So our very first Christmas at home. (Usually we alternate between my parents and my wife's parents).
But it was quieter - which I liked. You think *I'm* loud, my Mum is louder!
And you may have spotted that it gave me time at home on holiday, for a change, so that I could publish one or two things.
I have had a wee issue with Traveller's maintenance rules from when I picked up CT 1977.
In short maintenance is scheduled on a set time period as determined by the manufacturer and/or governmental body. During my time in the USN we had a material maintenance management system for every piece of equipment used. The system included Preventative Maintenance scheduling that was on card stock about the size of a pamphlet. The maintenance was conducted, based on the system once a watch, every 12 hours, every 3 days, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, bi-yearly, and annually. Then there was refits and overhauls that were scheduled in advance.
Yes, this is much more my experience from visiting the engine rooms on Doulos and seeing the big charts on the bulkhead of just this kind of thing.
However, I'm not entirely sure I want to recreate that kind of detail for normal gaming purposes. (Although, believe me, the thought had crossed my mind.)
I do try to insist that the engineer has enough jobs in Jump at least to mean that any other activities tend to mean she gets a bit behind...
Sometimes she persuades other crew members to help out. Most memorably when a water tank needed to be emptied and resurfaced inside as a very irregular but horrible job!
I don't recall any articles (in FT for example) that detail this kind of thing very much.
tc