On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 02:31:24 +1000, Alex Goodwin
<xxxxxx@multitel.com.au> wrote to Freelance Traveller:

>
>On 26/8/20 1:41 am, Jeff Zeitlin wrote:
>> <snip>
>> That's more or less one of the things I wrote "Extending the UWP:
>> Starports" for - the classification establishes the _minimums_ that you can
>> be sure will be available, and describes what you can generally expect will
>> be available (but should not absolutely depend on). If you exceed the
>> minima, or do better than the standard expectations, nobody is going to
>> tell you that you've done a naughty.

>At least in GT, the SPA classifies A and B ports as "major" ports and C
>and D ports as "minor" ports.  Thus, an upgrade from C to B would
>probably cause an extra level of bunfight if J. Random's trying to slip
>it past the hierarchy.

Again, "major" and "minor" should be _descriptive_, not _prescriptive_. And
should probably have more to do with traffic than services - so that if
Arendia manages to upgrade its port to providing all of the services that a
B port does, but doesn't thereby attract more traffic, it's still a "minor"
port, probably maintaining a C rating under Gurpsian classification, even
though they might be able to handle providing any service that one might
find at a major port like the B port at Drasnia.

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