On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:

Does anyone have any rule of thumb or house rule (or can point me to published rules which I can't think of) on hire costs of equipment rather than purchase cost?

I'm specifically thinking of vehicles, say an air/raft but if it works across anything that would be handy.

I could *swear* that there was a cost given in the Starter Traveller Rules booklet - in the section on "Travelling" - about the cost of chartering a non-starship (with different costs for with and without crew) based on a small percentage of it's construction cost. Also, I suspect that the JTAS article "Trading Without A Starship" (or some similar title) would have something to contribute on the matter.

Richard Aiken

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