Re: Has anyone tried the Trade rules?

>Has anyone tried to make heads or tales (pun intended) out of the TNEv: trade
>rules?  I have a problem with ANY good bought or sold at a given location
>having the same price per ton.  Somehow TL15 computers should cost more per
>tyon than rice - and certainly someone should be willing to pay more for the
>computers....

The TNE rules are basically the same as they were in MegaTraveller, and yes
it doesn't make sense that 10 Tons of Information have the same value as 10
Tons of grain.  They are evil and I don't like them.

>Yes, I know this is Xboat.  We're running a campaign set in 1110 using
>TNE rules~r.  My gut feel is to scrap them and go with book 2.

If I understand the charters of this list, and the TML, this message, even
though refering to Book 2, and a campaign set in 1110, should have been
directed to TML, instead of Xboat.

Now the problem with the book 2 system is that the numbers of cargo types
are kinda limited.  One of my old Traveller refs had expanded the trade
charts to
100 items instead of the 36 that were listed in Book 2.  You could take the
new charts and add a price / ton, and ton range for each item.  I am
probably going to be doing that.

Rob
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