On 8/22/2014 3:50 PM, Craig Berry wrote:
> I've always thought that most interstellar shipping, like most shipping today,
> would be done by large, scheduled container ships. Small independents in their
> free/far/fat traders would fill in gaps -- whether that means visiting a system
> without regular freight service (for whatever reason), or getting an urgent
> cargo delivered ahead of the usual schedule, or carrying something the regulars
> won't touch for legal or other reasons. A free trader trying to compete head to
> head against the big guys is doomed; they can't beat the economies of scale. Nor
> will most honest business-sophonts do business with a shady tramp freighter's
> crew when the fully bonded, easily sued megacorp is an option.
>
> For shipping volume calculations, I recommend Far Trader (
> http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/traveller/fartrader/ ); from what I recall, it
> produced very reasonable figures. (The worked example calculating the traffic
> between the two main Vegan worlds made my head spin.)
>

	Because I can't resist flogging my own work:
http://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Trade_map_summary

	I used the Far Trader rules (along with a few other data sets) to calculate out
all the trade for every work in charted space. The linked page provides an
overview. You can select your favorite sector, then look for the "Data File"
link in the right side bar:
http://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Spinward_Marches_Sector/data

	Trade values for every world in the sector, and by extension every world in
charted space.

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