Trade Rules

[Hyphen]

Surprised they didn't get a "friendly" visit from the local Abacus and Bookkeepers Guild suggesting that they get the hell out of Dodge while they still had enough fingers to work their digital watches...

 

[kilemall]

Well, I've been working the angle regarding J-1 vs. J-2/3/4 economics.

Time is valuable, so if you can get a shipment through in one J-2 rather then two J-1s, or one J-4 rather then two J-2s, that should be a premium.

Most of that has to do with base shipping rates and available lots, but could be a factor for speculation, perhaps a higher jump ship can get desirable goods there quickly.

ESPECIALLY true if you allow for a longer term Trader role picking up on a desirable uptick in demand several parsecs away and you can satisfy it faster then slower J-1 main bulk freighters.

Also, flirting with the Striker equipment buying starport/TL modifiers as a baseline for costing- and selling. Could be tough to unload those TL7 calculators at a profit outside of TL5 planets, except maybe as retro items for joke presents.

 

[Blue Ghost]

We actually did exactly this once, and our ref let us get away with it.

Essentially while NOT assaulting the guarded asteroid compound we had contracted to do, we grabbed the starship, combined our mustering out monies, and bought several tons of high TL solar powered scientific calculators (represented as Electronics I think), and proceeded to make huge bank selling them to a several wholesalers on a TL5 world, who were quite taken with them.

We made literally millions of Cr, and never laid foot on the guarded asteroid complex we were to assault.

Ref was kinda upset, but, frankly, he could have curtailed us at several junctures -- but didn't.

What happened to the asteroid? Did your referee ever make up a story to let you know what happened?

 

[whartung]

What happened to the asteroid? Did your referee ever make up a story to let you know what happened?

No, it was a one off. It was an Amber Zone as I recall. Heavily guarded asteroid thing, part of the trick was convincing them to let us land at all, etc. We were supposed to steal something.

But, we didn't…