Crew complement (starship design)

**jps** · 10-05-2011, 02:17 PM

Hello everybody, I'm new on the boards and quite happy to see the CODA system is still alive. I'm using it to run a campaign and while in the process of designing a homemade starship I got puzzled about the crew complement rule. In the Narrator's Guide, on page 137 it's written that to calculate crew complement, you have to select a multiplier (which is given by table 9.3) and multiply it by the number of decks. But how do I come up with the number of decks ? And how much space does crew complement cost ?
Thanks for your help. Live long and prosper

**Fugazi Grrl** · 10-05-2011, 03:00 PM

Hi ! And welcome to the forum ! Good to see another CODA-player. CODA is very much alive. I know my group loves it and we play as often as we can.

To answer your question, on page 136 of the Narrator's Guide it says;

The number of decks on a vessel varies, but on average each deck occupies 3-5meters of height.

So, you might take the height of the vessel, find the average height of a deck, then divide the height of the ship by the height of an average deck to determine the number of decks.

ie.: a ship with a height of 146m, and an average deck-height of 4m would yield around 36.5 decks. I'd round down and say 36 decks. Leave the .5 for extra between-deck space for things like Jeffries Tubes, etc.