I have one suggestion for helping those merchants make their mortgages:
RAISE PRICES!!
So what if the books say a high passage costs kCr10, and a low passage
is kCr1 (I think)? Altering the prices by a few thousand either way isn't
going to hurt anybody, is it? Besides, this would introduce the effect of
having passages to the "smaller" worlds costing more than passages to
major worlds, which seems realistic to me. Unfortunately, figuring out
what to charge for passages could become quite complicated, because of
having to figure in current interest rates, salaries, and prices.
The players would also have to worry about the competition from other,
large well-established lines with many ships (Tukera, Oberlindes), and
economies of scale on their side, which would probably keep them off
of the major trade routes. Oh well, that's life...
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