Freight types

[Daddicus]

Under FREIGHT on page 490, it says "Roll once for each type each day until the ship has enough freight and cargo."

It then gives the formula for Freight ((flux + pop) * (total TCs +1)). However, it gives no formula for cargo or mail. I looked over the whole section (pages 477 to 496) but I couldn't find anything.

I'm guessing it means to use the same formula as for freight for cargo and for mail. But, it doesn't make sense to use the same formula for mail as for the other two.

Plus, there's a note that "Cargo = up to 100 tons available (of all types, daily).
", which kind of implies that Cargo is 100 tons, period. But, it adds "of all types", which puts me back to the last paragraph. I'm confused.

One more thing: Page 477 makes a big deal about lots and that they can't be broken up. But, the formula on 490 doesn't seem to care about lots.

Finally, under Mail on page 477, it mentions that mail is "never major or minor sized lots". But, I can't find anything about major/minor sized lots anywhere else. (Could it be a leftover from CT?)

 

[grendelttroll]

Under FREIGHT on page 490, it says "Roll once for each type each day until the ship has enough freight and cargo."

It then gives the formula for Freight ((flux + pop) * (total TCs +1)). However, it gives no formula for cargo or mail. I looked over the whole section (pages 477 to 496) but I couldn't find anything.

I'm guessing it means to use the same formula as for freight for cargo and for mail. But, it doesn't make sense to use the same formula for mail as for the other two.

Plus, there's a note that "Cargo = up to 100 tons available (of all types, daily).
", which kind of implies that Cargo is 100 tons, period. But, it adds "of all types", which puts me back to the last paragraph. I'm confused.

One more thing: Page 477 makes a big deal about lots and that they can't be broken up. But, the formula on 490 doesn't seem to care about lots.

Finally, under Mail on page 477, it mentions that mail is "never major or minor sized lots". But, I can't find anything about major/minor sized lots anywhere else. (Could it be a leftover from CT?)

Page 490 of the core rulebook states:

"Each mail shipment is 1 ton. Payment is a voucher for Cr. 15,000, redeemable at any A starport"


Up to 100 tons of cargo means you pretty much use the same formula as freight, but it ceilings at 100 total tons of available speculative cargo. Freight does not seem to have the same limit.

Hope this helps...

 

[Daddicus]

I'm not sure. It seems odd that they would carefully explain the difference between freight and cargo, only to have them be identical in use.

And those major and minor loads still confuse me.

 

[pendragonman]

I'm not sure. It seems odd that they would carefully explain the difference between freight and cargo, only to have them be identical in use.

And those major and minor loads still confuse me.

Look, freight is stuff someone is paying you a kilocredit to move for him. If you want to just haul stuff for someone else the rules let you just fill your hold, regardless of size of hold, with someone else's goods at a thousand credits per ton. The formula dictates how much per day you can find to load.

I have done that before, and I don't ever recall really making any money that way. You make money on speculative cargo, cargo the ship owns. You aren't getting pad to haul it, and you had to buy it up front. But selling at the right places you can make a killing. A cap of a hundred tons of cargo just means that as a game mechanic you can't have a boat that hauls 500 tons of cargo space fill itself up on spec cargoes in one day, it would take 5 days minimum. Size of a speculative cargo lot---either there is no limit on the size of a lot (other than a hundred tons a day, new/different lot tomorrow---which is how I would do it) or each lot size is figured using the freight formula but not a limited trade code list.

I don't see any notation anywhere about major/minor cargoes. I think you are carrying that over from a prior edition. If you can tell me where you find the major minor thing in the T5 book I will take a look and let you know what I think it means.

 

[Daddicus]

OK, that makes sense. You're probably right about conflating it with CT.

The major/minor thing is in the 2nd paragraph under "Mail" on page 477. "Mail is always of incidental size (never major or minor
sized lots)." I suspect that quote also is a leftover from another Traveller.

Thanks!

 

[pendragonman]

OK, that makes sense. You're probably right about conflating it with CT.

The major/minor thing is in the 2nd paragraph under "Mail" on page 477. "Mail is always of incidental size (never major or minor
sized lots)." I suspect that quote also is a leftover from another Traveller.

Thanks!

The uses of copy/paste. Gotta remember the edit part though.