David asked: > You going to do the associated grain truck? This has only about 800 > bushels > of storage; modern corn yields are 170 bushels/acre. At 25 acres an hour, > the internal storage would be filled in ten or 15 minutes.
Not yet, but I'll consider it. The problem is that the stats will be very close to an ordinary g-carrier or air/raft, and it is difficult to make it interesting with the description alone. One option would be to take a dry bulk auger from Starports, but the logical thing for a grav truck would be to fly over the silo and dump it, so it needs no auger. Another thing to consider is if the truck should be gravitic or a ground vehicle. Part of the reason why the harvester or plow are gravitic is to protect the soil, but if there are roads in the area anyway, the harvester could simply fly there and meet the truck. If the ecology or soil allows no farm roads, why bother living there at all? Live in a space station and be done with it. Of course the world might use grav for personal vehicles simply because it can (air/rafts are cooler than ground cars), and lack the infrastructure for ground vehicles. The decision which might be logical for the group (to build roads for ground vehicles) might not be logical for the individual (to become the first to start a ground vehicle infrastructure). I've done both ordinary g-carriers and ordinary trucks for Traveller before. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
