I am crazy.

I am crazy.

There are 15 Tech Levels. TL 10 is "standard". Everything above gives a large number of points, with decreasing points under.

Minimum crew and additional points are given by tonnage:
100t: 1 crew / 1 point
200t: 2 crew / 2 point
400t: 4 crew / 4 point
... etc up to 50,000t, which is 500 crew and points.

This is ten categories of ship size, if my math is right.

You get points for a spaceshp equal to TL ^ 2 - 100 + points from tonnage.

Spaceships have the following stats:
Tracks, including Hull, Heat, Data
Violence, including Guns, Electronic, and Marines
Movement, including Thrust, Jump, and Delta V
Money, including Cargo, Pax, and Data

Staying in the black requires a resistance roll against Money with a difficulty of your ship size. Or something. Working on that, but point is you stay in the black by having a bunch of ways to make money and a bigger ship is harder to keep in the black.

The point value of a stat (like Hull) is it's level squared. Negative values are the negative value squared.

So:

TL 10 Free Trader. 200t, minimum 2 crew. Points: 2
Hull - 1, Heat 0, Data - 1
Guns 0, EW 0, Marines 0
Thrust + 1, Jump + 1, Delta V 0
Cargo + 1, Pax + 1., Data 0

TL 11 Free Trader, 200t, minimum 2 crew. Points: 23
Hull 0, Heat 0, Data - 1
Guns 0, EW 0, Marines 0
Thrust + 2, Jump + 2, Delta V +2
Cargo +2, Pax + 2., Data +2

TL 9 Free Trader, 400t, minimum 4 crew. Points: -15
Hull -2, Heat -2, Data -3
Guns 0, EW 0, Marines 0
Thrust +0, Jump +0, Delta V +0
Cargo +1, Pax + 1., Data +0

Questions: Is this too much of a change per TL? Is ship size a fun stat?

Am I simply crazy?