Large Book 2 Ships

[robject]

Stacking is a very useful option. Ken Pick is The Man.

I sometimes think about Traveller economics, but usually take the lazy way out.

(1) Examine two neighboring UWPs along the Xboat route.

Rhylanor A434934-F Hi Cp
Jae Tellona A560565-8 Ni De

(2) Count one 'point' per good feature (starport, TL, population, Cp, In, Ag). Subtract one 'point' per bad feature (Lo, Po, TL, starport). Ah, and add one point to each total, for being on the xboat route (handwave: to represent people in transit through the starport).

So,

Rhylanor: 5 points.
Jae Tellona: 2 points.

(3) Multiply them together. 5 x 2 = 10.

(4) Roll a die that many times. That's the number of high passengers booking passage from one to the other. Middle passage will be about half that. Cargo will be x 1000 tons.

I take the average instead of rolling.

High psg: 10d6, or about 35.
Mid psg: 5d6, or about 17.
Cargo: 10d6 x 1000, or about 3500 tons.

(5) Adjust to taste. That's really low for most people, but I've lately been leaning toward a low-volume Imperium for some reason.

Edit As a matter of fact, that's still too low even for my tastes.

 

[robject]

Stacking is a very useful option. Ken Pick is The Man.

I sometimes think about Traveller economics, but usually take the lazy way out.

(1) Examine two neighboring UWPs along the Xboat route.

Rhylanor A434934-F Hi Cp
Jae Tellona A560565-8 Ni De

(2) Count one 'point' per good feature (starport, TL, population, Cp, In, Ag). Subtract one 'point' per bad feature (Lo, Po, TL, starport). Ah, and add one point to each total, for being on the xboat route (handwave: to represent people in transit through the starport).

So,

Rhylanor: 5 points.
Jae Tellona: 2 points.

(3) Multiply them together. 5 x 2 = 10.

(4) Roll a die that many times. That's the number of high passengers booking passage from one to the other. Middle passage will be about half that. Cargo will be x 1000 tons.

I take the average instead of rolling.

High psg: 10d6, or about 35.
Mid psg: 5d6, or about 17.
Cargo: 10d6 x 1000, or about 3500 tons.

(5) Adjust to taste. That's really low for most people, but I've lately been leaning toward a low-volume Imperium for some reason.

Edit As a matter of fact, that's still too low even for my tastes.

 

[aramis]

Still to high for my tastes, and mid passages should be HIGHER not Lower, than HPsg.

The low-flow imperium is a more, uhm, firefly-esque setting... one where a tramp CAN make a big difference.

One where trade isn't essential to most worlds, and so is wild-eyed speculators on the outside of society. One where Travelling is special.

 

[aramis]

Still to high for my tastes, and mid passages should be HIGHER not Lower, than HPsg.

The low-flow imperium is a more, uhm, firefly-esque setting... one where a tramp CAN make a big difference.

One where trade isn't essential to most worlds, and so is wild-eyed speculators on the outside of society. One where Travelling is special.

 

[robject]

Hey, I'm just going off of cues from The Traveller Adventure, where the Large Liners there prefer high passengers to middle passengers by 2:1.

 

[robject]

Hey, I'm just going off of cues from The Traveller Adventure, where the Large Liners there prefer high passengers to middle passengers by 2:1.

 

[aramis]

Cue from all editions: MP are about 1.25x - 2x the rate of HP

Cue from reality: lower price = more buyers.

Liners won't have terribly much option much of the time.

 

[aramis]

Cue from all editions: MP are about 1.25x - 2x the rate of HP

Cue from reality: lower price = more buyers.

Liners won't have terribly much option much of the time.

 

[robject]

Well, I'm probably wrong. In fact, I'm wrong. I should stick with my old assumptions.

Xboat traffic is high when two major worlds are neighbors. This makes me free to assume there are many sectorwide transport companies like Al Morai. There are maybe five or six U.S. major air carriers. Fed Ex, United. There are probably five or six sector-wide transport companies in the Marches.

 

[robject]

Well, I'm probably wrong. In fact, I'm wrong. I should stick with my old assumptions.

Xboat traffic is high when two major worlds are neighbors. This makes me free to assume there are many sectorwide transport companies like Al Morai. There are maybe five or six U.S. major air carriers. Fed Ex, United. There are probably five or six sector-wide transport companies in the Marches.

 

[robject]

I'm still assuming that The Traveller Adventure had something in mind when it designed its Xboat liners to carry twice the high passengers as low passengers, and that this assumption applies to Al Morai's MK transports as well.

The issue is now that same old one: what's a good traffic estimate for the XBoat route?

Using a more exponential heuristic, it looks like the average traffic volume between worlds on the XBoat route might be somewhere in the hundreds of high and mid passengers per week.

This implies more than the lone MK transport, which can move 30 passengers at a time. In fact, this implies perhaps ten MK-equivalent transports in operation per link of the Xboat route in the Marches. In short, ten transport companies.

Assume one of them is Tukera, one is Al Morai, and the other eight are sector-wide companies similar to Al Morai.

Where are these other eight carriers headquartered? Most likely, at the Imperial subsector capitals or one of the major worlds. I'd suspect worlds like:

Glisten
Strouden
Lunion
Rhylanor for sure
Lanth
Trin

What are these company's names?

I'd also suspect that Al Morai wants to gather more market share, and would plan to expand their fleet, perhaps in a heterogenous direction. The SMC states the MK is 3000 tons, but High Guard statistics lists a smaller vessel's stats. The smaller ship would make a good complement to their fleet, in my mind. What's the designation for this ship?

 

[robject]

I'm still assuming that The Traveller Adventure had something in mind when it designed its Xboat liners to carry twice the high passengers as low passengers, and that this assumption applies to Al Morai's MK transports as well.

The issue is now that same old one: what's a good traffic estimate for the XBoat route?

Using a more exponential heuristic, it looks like the average traffic volume between worlds on the XBoat route might be somewhere in the hundreds of high and mid passengers per week.

This implies more than the lone MK transport, which can move 30 passengers at a time. In fact, this implies perhaps ten MK-equivalent transports in operation per link of the Xboat route in the Marches. In short, ten transport companies.

Assume one of them is Tukera, one is Al Morai, and the other eight are sector-wide companies similar to Al Morai.

Where are these other eight carriers headquartered? Most likely, at the Imperial subsector capitals or one of the major worlds. I'd suspect worlds like:

Glisten
Strouden
Lunion
Rhylanor for sure
Lanth
Trin

What are these company's names?

I'd also suspect that Al Morai wants to gather more market share, and would plan to expand their fleet, perhaps in a heterogenous direction. The SMC states the MK is 3000 tons, but High Guard statistics lists a smaller vessel's stats. The smaller ship would make a good complement to their fleet, in my mind. What's the designation for this ship?