Condottiere
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You only need the majority of fuel for the jump, so you have dual purpose cargo/fuel tanks, and fill up just before you go.
Free Traders i.e. Citizen of the Galaxy
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And of course, regenerative life support.
'Cause the kids will be playing hide-and-seek in the hydroponics bays...
Spinward Flow
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You think I didn't know that?Um ... I've got (house) rules for that ...
Spinward Flow
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No comment.You think I didn't know that?
Argh!... The CD is a largely undifferentiated mass of data....
I spend some time every day looking for the gems in there...Wha…? Noooooooooo
Timerover51
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About the only way that I can see adapting Citizen of the Galaxy to Traveller is drastically reduce the cost of the ships or simply start with the Free Traders already in place with a fairly large number of ships in existence. The problem would be when the population grows sufficiently to require a new ship. Then the ship cost becomes a major factor.
I am more comfortable basing my Free Traders on Andre Norton concept as shown in the Solar Queen series. Then the ship cost becomes a bit more doable, as long as you reduce the badly inflated cost of the ship hull. The cost of the basic ship hull makes no sense whatsoever.
I am more comfortable basing my Free Traders on Andre Norton concept as shown in the Solar Queen series. Then the ship cost becomes a bit more doable, as long as you reduce the badly inflated cost of the ship hull. The cost of the basic ship hull makes no sense whatsoever.
Remember it took a generation or more for a family to generate a new ship. Often it was the combination of a couple of families.
I did a generational population model years ago, for it to work the replacement rate needed to be under 3 or so. Though you still end up with a huge population. So my assumption is a fair number of them became settled folk along the way.
As a side note, I too feel the ship costs are a bit high generally I have costed commercial ships between 10% and 50%. Warship prices less so.
Small ships and one to a few BIG ships: dispersed structures with affordances to carry freight, smaller ships, some manufacturing capability, labs, and habitat modules.
- Drop off a "trading post" and some cargo shuttles, pick it up when the trade opportunities diminish.
- Position and replenish deep space waypoints to enable advantageous trade routes.
- Actual offices in orbitals and on dirtside for important worlds.
Depending on 'culture', you might have a "homeworld", or some arbitrary place for a regular (biannual? decadal? every generation?) family reunion/shareholder meeting.
- Drop off a "trading post" and some cargo shuttles, pick it up when the trade opportunities diminish.
- Position and replenish deep space waypoints to enable advantageous trade routes.
- Actual offices in orbitals and on dirtside for important worlds.
Depending on 'culture', you might have a "homeworld", or some arbitrary place for a regular (biannual? decadal? every generation?) family reunion/shareholder meeting.
