Eaglesone Trade Index

[tjoneslo]

I was reading through the latest issue of the Freelance Traveller magazine, always an excellent use of time, and came across an interesting thing I'd not seen before: The Eaglestone Trade Index.

http://freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/tradeindex.html

It is an short form for calculating trade volumes for some of the worlds in the Imperium.

I wanted to see what this looked like on a larger scale. So I implemented the process in the Traveller Trade Route generator. And I ran this across Deneb and Spinward Marches sector and collected a few statistics:

http://wiki.travellerrpg.com/User:Tjoneslo/sandbox-eti

In the first table:

ETI Worlds: Number of worlds in the sector with an ETI high enough to have regular trade.
ETI Cargo: The sum of cargo volume for all the worlds with regular trade
ETI Passengers: The sum of passengers for all worlds with regular passenger trade.

In the second table;

ETI Index: The calculated Index for the world
ETI Pass Index. The calculated passenger Index for the world.
ETI Worlds: Number of worlds this world has regular trade with.
ETI Cargo: Sum of the cargo volume for the world
ETI Passengers: Sum of the passenger volume for the world

 

[Garnfellow]

I was reading through the latest issue of the Freelance Traveller magazine, always an excellent use of time, and came across an interesting thing I'd not seen before: The Eaglestone Trade Index.

That's pretty darned interesting, and I would really like to directly compare these calcs to GURPS Traveller: Far Trader. Clearly the ETI number of passengers is far lower than GT:FT, even an order of magnitude lower.

A quick spot check of a few worlds raises some questions. Annual ETI passengers of 14,000 for Chronor, a world with 8 billion people? Annual tourism numbers for, say, Cleveland, are something like 14 million. (Are the calcs driven down by the "quantum sector" next to it?)

 

[tjoneslo]

That's pretty darned interesting, and I would really like to directly compare these calcs to GURPS Traveller: Far Trader. Clearly the ETI number of passengers is far lower than GT:FT, even an order of magnitude lower.

They are there in the same table. The Travellers column is GT:FT passenger count in millions per year. And the internal trade is in credits, divide by 10,000 to get DTons.

Keep in mind there is a vast difference between a three day trip to another city which costs three weeks pay and a three week trip which costs half a year pay.