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Originally Posted by Proneutron
Back in the Dark ages I looked at that using a then current day example. Which were the Sony Walkmans being unloaded at a dock in NY. They were selling in NY for $100 each.
I had figured they were packed ~3 per liter. So ~40,000/Dton. If charged $1,000/Dton freight that is 40 cents charge to ship one. If $2,000 then 80 cents. The profit margin negates a problem even if 6 X 40 cents as long a no closer supplier to destination planet.
Anyway for what that is worth.
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That's where the differential TL modifier comes in. If your world produces Walkmans and handheld electronic football games, your cargo is going to be very value-dense. If the product is Future Space Soybeans, not so much.
But you're going to have a hard time selling Walkmans and Coleco Electronic Football games over in the direction of someplace that makes iPads, though that's slightly outside of this discussion's scope. (Here I'm thinking of Collace/District 268 at TL13 competing with Glisten/Glisten at TL15 -- Glisten will own the tech-goods market in its own subsector, but Collace should be able to do well in most of District 268 and well into the Outrim Void.)