On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:53:28PM +0100, Timothy Collinson wrote:
> Is traffic really this low?
Apparently in T5 it is. In pretty much every other ruleset, it's
greater. (And IMO most of those are too low)
I guess it does fit in with things like the Dumarest books where they often seemed to be waiting for a very rare ship to arrive. And indeed, much later work such as Embassytown by China Mieville where the same thing is going on.
It is how I imagined Traveller somewhat in the earliest days, but not quite how I picture it since the Third Imperium setting really took hold.
I think, for my purposes, I just won't mention it and leave it for the Referee's judgement at the time. But many thanks for the all the thoughts on the subject.