The Glamour of Exotic Travel

[Jim Webster]

Visit exotic new worlds, trade with their inhabitants, fight for your life as somebody betrays everybody else.

The life of the honest if penurious merchant 🙂

The Glamour of Exotic Travel

 

Jim

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[Cacique Caribe]

Ooooo, I like this!  A lot!

And a captivating image too.

Dan
Loads of WIPs: https://www.flickr.com/photos/9593487@N07/albums/with/72157710630529376

[Jim Webster]

That’s good
There’s more of Caldoom to come 🙂

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[Tony S]

The miracle that is Amazon delivered mine yesterday.  I read through it – rapidly I admit – but had a question.

When rolling for cargo at the various planets, you get offers of passengers and cargo.  The money you get from passengers is explained, but I didn’t see where the money from moving others cargo is explained?

Again, I wasn’t terribly thorough when reading it, so my apologies if I missed it.  I did see the section on finding your own cargo, legal or not.

I really like the overall book though!  A solo campaign might be beginning…

[Jim Webster]

Page 10 (probably) 🙂

”

Cost of shipping.

Current world shipping rates are high but then they don’t have to leave the gravity well, so I’ll stick with the high rates. It works out at 2 credits per ton for a trip of about 30 days. Here I’m going to be spuriously accurate again and say that a standard trip including a jump is 15 days (which includes an element of time in port unloading and loading. Obviously different worlds will have different gravity wells and ships will spend more time in system getting to jump points etc, so 15 days is doubtless inaccurate on most worlds, but if we say that for each jump you transport cargo, you can charge the consignor 1 credit per ton.”

 

But on page 13 (In italic and bold, perhaps the other stuff should have been)

I would suggest that the charges average around 0.5 credits per ton unloaded.

So if you unload in a spaceport you charge 1 credit per ton unloaded but the spaceport hit you with half a credit per ton in charges. But on the positive side you end up refuelled.

Obviously if you manage to land at night in somebody’s back yard there aren’t the charges but you have to refuel etc
And no doubt the authorities will catch up with you at some point. I didn’t include ‘Official retribution rules’ preferring to leave it to Karma ;- )

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[Tony S]

Thanks Jim!  Not quite sure how I missed that, especially as I was well aware of the next section about passengers.   Hopefully tonight I’ll have time to sit down and give it a good proper read through, if only to spare yourself the annoyance of answering self evident questions and to spare myself the ignominy of asking them.

Hopefully I can refrain from reading the “Strange Requests – Embarrassing Details” at the back of the book.  Great concept by the way.

[Jim Webster]

Don’t worry about asking questions, it helps me learn the stuff that should be more obvious 🙂

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