On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Roger Burton West <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:06:23PM +0200, Onno Meyer wrote: > >It makes no sense from a strictly economic viewpoint. It is a > >deliberate attempt to make the planetary settlement viable at > >the expense of the profits of the belters and merchants. > > I must confess I can't see this being viable unless you have extremely > cheap orbital lifters. What's the technology base of the local space > fleet? > > (Otherwise the costs are going to real things - fuel, amortising the > lifters, and so on, which don't necessarily help the surface > settlement at all...) > > It's traveller, so things are transported by magic. But the cost of loading, unloading, and reloading is real, even in traveler. -- David Scheidt [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
