My experience from CT is that it's not really that hard to make a profit esp if there're no payments left to make.

'Annual Maint' should detect most of the pending problems.

Also, take a look at 'Twilight's Peak' CT Adv3 for a discussion & example of an old somewhat worn-out F'trader.

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On Friday, February 22, 2019, 8:06:42 AM MST, Fred Kiesche <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a official or good fan source on:

The average age of ships in service?

Average reliability of older ships?

I want to give my group a older (paid off, in a small merchant fleet, reliable but not perfect) Free Trader. Just trying to get a sense of what the "depreciated cost" of an older ship would be plus what possibly might break as they start travelling the Spinward Main.

Even working on a "business plan" that will give them a main emphasis of trading, but allow for side journeys of self-directed adventure (mayhem) or acting as a safari ship, etc.

Thanks!

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