Re: Community ressources

Richard Johnson writes:

> First, about community resources:
>
> Hans Rancke-Madsen [email removed] writes:
> :> Do any of you have any figures about how many [community resources] a
> :> community of 24.000 would have?...
>
> and James says:
> : I'm not rightly sure how many varied
> :shops Corvallis has, but as a college town I can state with some
> :authority that when I was in school there there were exactly thirteen
> :pizza outlets.
>
> And I'll bet Nogales Mexico (just across the border from Arizona, and about
> 45,000 last time I looked) has fewer pizza places, fewer educational outlets
> (at the university level anyway), and certainly no Mark Cook.  :=)
> I think we need to acknowledge that the quantity and quality of community
> resources depends a lot on the culture.

Of course I realize that culture and economics will cause variations.
I'm not trying to get THE definitive answer, I just don't want to have
something obviously wrong. If someone tells my that their population
24.000 community has 5 rat-catchers then I could have one or five or
ten in my Traveller colony, but I could at least avoid the mistake of
putting in 50 or 100.



      Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
     [email removed]
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        "This gives a possible range of 56 to 178 starships
         total  in the three Terran starport facilities,  a
         believable quantity for such a star system."

        "We have a maximum of 178 ships in port, and (as it
         is a busy star system)  we will say that there are
         70 docking berths at the Phoenix facility."

                        ---Journal of the Traveller's
                           Aid Society # 18