Is there an upper limit to streamlined hull displacement?

[Ulsyus]

I believe you've been doing it wrong. Then again, i've played several naval wargames, and the issue of batteries bearing has always been a limit on any single target...

Hmm, General Quarters: now there was a naval game! Plus, an excellent system for using capital vessels, cruisers, and destroyer flotillas all in the same scale.

 

[aramis]

Hmm, General Quarters: now there was a naval game! Plus, an excellent system for using capital vessels, cruisers, and destroyer flotillas all in the same scale.

Battlewagon, WSIM, BS&BP, Harpoon, the USNA's 1980's wargame (in NJROTC - it's very much like Harpoon, but with better accuracy on the specs; same author, too.)

Anyway, we're going off topic... which is big ships - limited?

The 5000 Td limit I think comes from interfacing the rules of Bk2 and HG. Any shape can be streamlined if it's a book 2 hull; some Bk5 hulls are cheaper, but can't be streamlined.

 

[Selandia]

Unless you are being paid for extended handling, once freight is off your ship it is the receiver's problem, just as it is the seller's responsibility to get the freight to you.

True. Still, on the issue of why enter athmosphere, pretend for a second that you are a large freight fowarder that offers a Door to Door service (Universal Packetfarhzeug Service?)...there you might have a reason to buy for your fleet cargo/passengers liners capable of landing. If you are a trader seeking time charter from a fowarder, he may sees as an asset the fact that you will not be limited to High delivery..., if you were running between High port hubs, the fowarder might not care for your streemlining...,

Speculative cargoes are another matter, as they belong to the ship until sold. Even then, if you have a buying broker on the ground who insists on ground-side delivery while on a world that requires orbital delivery, then the shuttle had better be a flat-rate service. Double charging the shipper for parking is a good way to kill business. In practice, that Broker will have a high-port office if he is serious about the business he's in.

True, you are right to point that a sophisticated business model would include -if you cannot/wihsnot land- the option of a brooker that offers inexpensive transhipment service between the Dust and High sections of the starport over one that don't. Still, there is no free lunch and that service has a price. If you paid for Streamlining, here is the opportunity to save money by using it.

Have fun

Selandia