Month: May 2012
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IMTU: Basic Infrastructure of Colonies
I’ve broken down the Shipbuilding Rules into a bunch of ratios that would be useful for building a Space Colony.…
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When they Lie, I lose Ground.
Because of how biz works, when you are in a professional setting and someone lies at your side’s expense you…
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Airsoft Economics in the Philippines
Airsoft guns prices are rising every year. Since 2007, airsoft prices has risen to about 8000 from 4000. that is…
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Complexity of Salaries, some ideas.
Cleaning House. Cronyism leads to very high salaries. Salaries that are beyond the market norm, and does not reflect the…
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IMTU: Mining = Farming
IMTU colonists use genetically engineered plants that are designed for the particular planets to trap, concentrate, synthesize, and mine mineral and chemical…
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IMO the best Mental Model for Strength is Work
The best Mental Model for Strength is Work in my opinion. What I mean by work, the SI unit or…
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Updates, Opened up my Gaming Assistant Biz Notes
I made public my Gaming Assistant Notes, as well a whole set of notes related to it. My purpose is…
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Real World Work Skills/Tools useful in Gaming
I get more practice in using these tools and skills thanks to gaming, that it actually makes it a natural…
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Mental Models = RPG System
I believe an Open RPG System is almost the same thing as a Science Based Mental Model of how the…
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Gaming Projects Monitoring Sheet
Too many projects and to many distractions from life and work, so I might as well be organize and track…
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edX – Press Release
edX – Press Release Harvard making their own Open Course Ware like MITX
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Prepping a Game Session for our Sales Team
Ok, I tend to blend work and games to a fault. So much that I’ve become rather an alien kind…
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Trusting and Respecting a Stranger; The Family Motto
Integrity is a big part of work, there are many Game-theory reasons why Integrity is a big issue, but I’ll…
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Space Warfare Doctrine on a Budget Doc.
Moving forward I have to consolidate my notes and the comments, so I just made a Google Doc that is…
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Learning by Doing; Sci-fi is the ultimate Project Based Learning
Just a thought. I listed my ideas in the link and realized after writing it that I found an interesting…
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Sci-fi on a Budget
In the discussion of scanners with ken and nyranth, working a setting without stealth is not such a bad thing.…
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Scanning Limitations of Technology
Scanning Limitations of Technology I was doing some back-of-the-envelope calculations with regards to scanning. So TL10 is 10,000 times better…
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Leveling up in the Real World
The most a company can realistically promise is that “they will help you grow”. Growth means better skills, capabilities, and…
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Add this Project: Make Complicated RPGs easier to run
There is that love hate relationship between complexity and convenience in science, business and life. Some of the best things…
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IMTU: Updating the Ops Cost per Ship.
Just an update of ship expenses, all commercial shipping found in ISW. Note that these are the costs per Dton, there is…
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IMTU Book keeping Assumptions
These are typical practices, the dominant practice. Its just good biz sense because it protects both parties. There are always…
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IMTU Cost of Energy and the Future.
I hopefully make it clear that No Game System has a copyright in using Economics used as a World building…
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Fictify Kickstarter: For the GM who needs a little more prodding
Plugging this Kickstarter, Basically its a program that keeps your eye on the ball. So if you know how distracted…
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IMTU: TL or Era Level is GDP/C; Gini Coeffcient IMTU
IMTU TL will be used for GDP per Capita. It also has the added use of determining the technology support…
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Teaching Analysis to Assistants; Making a simple research Team
I call myself an Analyst, although my real title is director. I got the Analyst Gig because I’m the one…
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Projects Update and IMTU Underground Doctrine
Currently working on the following – IMTU background generation to be added to the Character creation. It will require me…
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IMTU: Spacers and Captured Routes
A Ships adventure is to explore new routes. Basically the first adventure after acquiring financing is getting a trade route.…
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Poll: What would rather do most in a game?
Its a poll related to my previous post. <p><p>Loading…</p></p>
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Consolidating Role-Playing Game expectations
We are now familiar with the Tanks, Flankers, Healers, Range Attacker and Spellcaster set up. Of course this is not…
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People asking to to be sold an RPG
I’m against this kind of approach, I find it puts people responding to it in a vulnerable and odd position.…