Civilized Places

[hcobb]

Originally Posted by Skarg

* If there are large-scale gate networks, consider what all the powers that be will do about them. I can think of many different answers that seem far more likely than it just being a low-cost resource for everyone to go anywhere at will.

Reliable and secure gate networks must be cheap to use.

If you don't want to get stranded without warning then you need hubs that are constantly monitored by persons skilled enough to fix things up.

These people need the incentive of getting paid to study up that much and show up for work everyday.

This requires an income stream to pay them and constant use to hone their skills.

Fare prices need to be low enough so that the traffic can afford to pay these fares.

For example Amtrak is $12 to get to the nearest station in a population whose median income is $83 a day. (Two trips a day is 29% of income.)

My gate network is two silvers per one-way trip in a population whose median income is ten silvers a day. (Two trips a day is 40% of income.)