On 8/22/2014 5:11 PM, Greg Chalik wrote:
> Far Trader needs to be updated.
>

	I am always interested in a cogent explanation of what's missing, wrong,
incomplete, or outdated in the Far Trader rules (for obvious reasons).

> Given the availability of energy sources, why would there be substantial
> physical shipping rather than just transfer of digital files with the design
> that would be just 3-D printed in the materials required in-place?
>
	Scale efficiencies. Despite the massive amount of energy available, it is
sometimes cheaper to make physical objects via more efficient means than 3D
printing and ship them across space.

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