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[Traveller] Credits?

Started by mcbobbo, September 29, 2013, 11:14:47 PM

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dragoner

#30
October 02, 2013, 10:13:26 AM
There is also the flipside, to be the bounty hunters/mercs, hired by the bank to kill/capture the person/people that have been ripping them off. Trav is nice for being a sandbox.
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estar

#31
October 02, 2013, 01:00:44 PM
Quote from: The Traveller;695823I dunno, maybe I'm talking out my ass, I'm not overly familiar with the setting. But it feels interesting - I'm tinkering with a setting based on Alastair Reynolds' slower than light space milieu and economics get truly messed up when it takes centuries to travel between stars. A year isn't much to worry about.

Just be careful of infinite money machines. There are certain combo of planets that are instant profits in one jump for classic Traveller Trading rule. Just go back and forth and harvest the cash.

jeff37923

#32
October 02, 2013, 01:12:49 PM
Quote from: estar;696039Just be careful of infinite money machines. There are certain combo of planets that are instant profits in one jump for classic Traveller Trading rule. Just go back and forth and harvest the cash.

Which can be fun when the wealth of the Players starts to get noticed by pirates, hijackers, tax collectors, and rival corporations.
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The Traveller

#33
October 02, 2013, 01:26:27 PM
Quote from: jeff37923;696042Which can be fun when the wealth of the Players starts to get noticed by pirates, hijackers, tax collectors, and rival corporations.
Yep, that's the invisible hand of the market looting the wreckage of your merchantman!

It's a bit like the triangle trade route of yore, every step increased profits hugely. That sort of thing rarely lasts for long though, the free market brings lots of competition as word gets out, then markets get saturated, profits drop, and it eventually becomes just another wobbly-headed-doll caper.

I can see a whole subgame in finding these markets while they're still hot though, like gold rushes for those who know how to read the signs.
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