Starship Economics Again

By Robert S. Dean ·

TML message #2634From bundle 216

Welcome to Crazy Eddie's Used Starship Lot!  The Biggest Bargains in the
Imperium?  This little baby may be a hundred and fifty years old, but she
was owned by two little old lady prospectors from Glisten who never took
her above Jump-1!

Hmmm...well, maybe not. (-8.  Still, one way of cutting down ship prices
for players without worrying about the economy at large is to sell them
a used ship (maybe a a _very_ used ship).  The only trouble with that is
that we don't really know how much of a price break we ought to get, nor
what the likely increases in operating expenses (due to increased main-
tenance requirements) or in systems breakdowns might be.  (Unless there
is some article in an old Challenge/TD/JTAS that I have forgotten...)

Does anybody have a system of any sort already worked out for this?

Rob Dean