The Lo-Lo trading option hadn't occurred to me but it sounds interesting, esp for the 'FreeTrader' trading mode.

Guess I'm still tied to the old 'Merchant Prince' LBB trading tables.

From: Caleuche <xxxxxx@sudnadja.com>
To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2018 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: [TML] Population vs Tech Level

I'd think it'd be more that the low population worlds trade among themselves, rather than the trade being low pop <-> high pop.

The median distance from a low pop (<= 10^5) imperial world to a high pop (>= 10^9) imperial world is 2.49 parsec (meaning Jump-3 is needed, generally). 

Histogram, for those curious about it: 







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On January 20, 2018 1:03 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:


Remember, we are thousands & thousands of years into the future. MakerBots would be very, very old hat.

And would be avail just about anywhere & everywhere.

Still, for obvious reasons, I prefer to imagine 'Free Trading' would be still be possible.

Also, how would all those dinky systems pay for imports? Esp if the Hi-Pop systems don't really need anything?
Aren't we back to "info & artifacts"? (The initial 'MakerBots' would be imported but then....)

BTW, how many 1-9 billion Hi-Pop worlds are there?


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