12-10-2016, 08:18 PM | #21 |
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Re: Traveller and modern electronics
Does Traveller have a lot of things like asteroid mining or space station habitats and space colonies and such? OTU I mean.
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12-10-2016, 08:20 PM | #22 |
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Re: Traveller and modern electronics
Well, tea leaves keep better than seasonal fruit juices, and silk feels MUCH better than leather. But for the most part, I agree that luxuries make bank.
Though they still require plenty of wealthy people to pay through the nose for them. And they still won't supply the bulk, literally and monetarily, of the trade. Was the silk road really all about the luxuries? Even if so, wasn't it more about numerous micro-stops and the road only existed when looked at from "above" and over long periods of time? My history knowledge isn't very detailed, so I really don't know.
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12-10-2016, 08:23 PM | #23 | |
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12-10-2016, 09:08 PM | #24 | |
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To this day Kashmere is a household word even though the overhead for getting Kashmere cloth is really not comparable to what getting silk from China was. In other words, if a product becomes "magic" then a raise in price will actually be an advertisement as people start potlaching with it.
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12-10-2016, 10:22 PM | #25 |
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Re: Traveller and modern electronics
Asteroid mining, yes -- there's even a Belter career and the Beltstrike module -- and main "worlds" that are asteroid belts. High ports, space stations for cargo transfer, are common. Space colonies and habitats are mentioned, but don't figure in the worldbuilding system and so show up only by referee fiat.
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12-11-2016, 01:18 AM | #26 |
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Re: Traveller and modern electronics
Well...the Chinese do. They weren't going to the opposite end of the world for apple juice and cowhide.
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12-11-2016, 08:42 AM | #27 |
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But they were making such efforts for jade and glasswork. And you can find writings of Tang poets making eloquent displays of drooling at the wares in frontier bazaars.
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12-12-2016, 12:05 PM | #28 |
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Re: Traveller and modern electronics
I think the restriction in Traveller on a lot of worlds that have the technology for making essentially anything they need is low population. It's possible for a world to have a population that is little more than the local jump-6 capacitor factory, a few associated support businesses, and routine services, with everything else based on trade.
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12-12-2016, 05:58 PM | #29 | |
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12-12-2016, 06:01 PM | #30 |
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Re: Traveller and modern electronics
One point to remember is that the lower TL worlds are exactly the ones a Free Trader is going. He is looking for a niche that is beneath the megas notice, essentially surviving like a cockroach in a world of humans.
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