On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:
> On 10/28/2014 8:53 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:
>
>> For myself, I see them as filling a niche, 'tramp-steamer' style, where
>> they service worlds where the volume of trade (remember, the way I see it,
>> the TU has the lower volumes associated w/ CT rather than the much higher
>> ones from MT)
>
>
> Problem is, as we've been over a couple of times, that sort of trade volume
> has nothing to do with reality (even in the 70s) and everything to do with
> Marc et al not having any idea what the hell they were talking about.
>
> How do you fix that?  Or do you just hide everything behind a curtain and
> hope/forbid the players from ever looking?

A big part here is that the Hi Pop worlds are the outliers, they
mostly trade with each other, and then there is everywhere else.
Remember the majority population score is 5, then add in all the
secondary worlds and there is this cloud of inhabited places that are
trading but won't support anything bigger than the occasional free/far
trader...

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Evyn