World writeup format for merchant campaigns

[rancke]

I'm not quite sure if this one belongs in this forum. It's about the merchant fleet, anyway.

If you were planning to referee a free trader campaign and you could get some two-page writeups (that's about 1400 words less any space taken up with system diagrams and trade tables) of the worlds the PCs might visit, what information would you want those writeups to contain?


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[aramis]

I'd want, first and foremost a notification of exactly which trade rules are in force.

If using CT Bk2, I want the average goods modifier... because that's about all that matters. And that can be prefigured, but is computationally intensive.

CT Bk7, MT, TNE, T4: I want the value difference for every system within J4, preferably within J8.

MGT: I'm not certain what data I want to run the trade system, because I don't know it well enough.

T5: The base differentials as per CTB7, but using the tables in T5.

T20: same as for CT Bk2, but using the T20 tables.

Then, in all cases, starports listing for the system (given that canon says some worlds have more than one) - which may or may not be singular. Discussion of the high and low ports, declarations of extrality.

Plus a capsule write up of the world itself at least as involved as G:BTC. I'd also like a 2" wide system map with UWPs of the rest of the system.