RE: [TML] Dumb Q about Passages
Greg Aldridge 14 Jun 2017 11:24 UTC
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> Obviously, if it doesn't feel right you should improvise in your
> universe. But you would want to improvise within the envelope defined
> by reality. I think that to a starship operator, most of the cost
> in providing a high passage will be paying the cabin steward for his
> labor and paying for the passenger's food. That leads me to think that
> 10kCr /travel-week is right. But if I'm the captain of a J-3 ship
> looking at a passenger who wants to go where I'm going. I'm looking at
> the 3 * 10kCr cost of making that journey as three jumps on slower
> trips as an opportunity to make a better rate. As that captain, my
> success and thus my price will depend on the number of J-3 ships at
> the port that can offer the same direct rate price.
>
So you're suggesting that there might be room within the Traveller economic setting for a company called Uberlindes Lines who would no doubt upset some of the established companies in the passenger business? :)
Greg.
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