Ok, stupid question, who is working on (moderating) the Trade and Commerce
system?
Next questions, do you have any ideas on a simple way to compensate for the
following problem:
Using the Errata Modifyed rules (and assuming a No Trade Class, B starport
world of TL-10:
1 Ton of Exotic Fluids Costs 5000 cr / ton
1 Ton of Consumable Milk Costs 5000 cr / ton
1 Ton of Computers Costs 5000 cr / ton
1 Ton of Weapons Costs 5000 cr / ton
1 Ton of Currency Costs 5000 cr / ton
Problem #1
Players Buy 1 Ton of Weapons at 5000 cr / ton. Lets say they are autorifles
for example (5 KG each, I like round numbers). That is 200 autorifles in the
1 ton lot. An autorifle sells for 1000 cr each, that is 200,000 cr for the
lot.
Players buy 1 Ton of Consuable Milk at 5000 cr / ton. (1 L water weighs 1KG
right?) That is 1000 Liters of Milk, at lets say 0.5 cr per Liter. Or 500
cr for the lot.
Now the system put forth in Merchant Prince (Book 6) is the basic megatraveller
system with one exception, they left out what the items were. Now, I could say
sure you buy 10 tons of TL-12 Manufactured Goods for 8000 cr / ton. But they
are going to open the boxes and see what they bought and they find 10 tons of
holo crystals which they can sell for 10 cr each (or what ever) and in the 10
tons of them there are over 100,000 of them. You know just what the players
will do!!!
Now my delima is this, just were do I put a modifier in? Do I make a TL for
each item and modify the cost by that? If so, how do I compensate for some of
the items such as currency and information in which Tonnage means nothing.
If I do anything different, it isn't standard MT, so GDW may not recognize my
work. I play to sell/give away (yet to be decided) this nifty Traveller program
for the IBM/PC -- VGA required, it is SHARP!!! Uses GDW/DGP/Genie sector
files, as well as my own propritary format (based on James P's Sector.C
program, but modified somewhat), and as soon as I discover the TML format, i
will adjust the program to handle that format also. (I Just love .RC files).
I know this doesn't conform with all of the TML development going on, but I
started this in Turbo Pascal well before I even knew of TML.
HELP (Anyone!!!) (And Thanks in Advance)
Rob
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