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Starship expenses?

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Each adventuring ship has a continuing need for money to pay expenses such as crew salary, maintenance, life support, and other supplies. This cash flow is handled through the Ship’s Account.

Where are the maintenance and life support costs?
Thanks for any help.
 
Page 49 mentions

Each adventuring ship has a continuing need for money to pay expenses such as crew salary, maintenance, life support, and other supplies. This cash flow is handled through the Ship’s Account.

Where are the maintenance and life support costs?
Thanks for any help.

You're looking for the operations costs expressed in energy/fuel in the jump/power plant section. I don't know about maintenance though. So far we are just ignoring maintenance.
 
Thanks, another thing missing. I'll have to look through the old books to decide what the cost will be.

This is what I think I'll use.
Note taken from CT - The Traveller Handbook

STARSHIP EXPENSES
There are five basic expenses (in addition to the bank payment, if necessary) associated with starship operation:
1. Fuel. See Fuel Benchmarks pg 360 T5.
2. Life Support. Each occupied stateroom on a starship involves an overhead cost of Cr2000 per trip (two weeks) made. Each occupied low passage berth involves an overhead cost of Cr100 per usage. There is a normal limit of one person per stateroom, travelling couples or groups usually taking adjoining staterooms. Military vessels or chartered ships may be used with a double occupancy system (two persons per stateroom), but this requires twice the normal cost.
3. Routine Maintenance. Annually, a starship should be given a complete overhaul in order to insure that it is kept in good working order. Such maintenance costs 0.1% (1/1000th) of the cash price of the ship, and requires two weeks at a class A or B starport. The owner must make provision for payment of the maintenance fee when it comes due. Crew members generally take their vacations at this time, but must still be paid. The ship owners must make provision for the expected loss of revenue while the ship is out of service.
4. Crew Salaries. See Costs pg 52 T5.
5. Berthing Costs. Landing fees, handling costs, facilities use charges, and other starport fees are a common practice, and such costs must be paid as they occur. The average cost is Cr100 to land and remain for up to six days; thereafter, a Cr100 per day fee is imposed for each additional day spent in port. In some locations this fee will be higher, while at others local government subsidies will lower or eliminate it.

With the berthing cost I may even use the T20 table of starport fees pg 350 T20 The Travellers handbook.
 
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Just out of curiosity, do you need to pay 2 weeks worth of port fees while doing annual maintenance or is it considered part of the maintenance fee?
 
I may be a mean referee, I make the pay the 2 weeks berthing fees. I always thought that the maintenance fees payed for the technical crew and parts, not the tied up bay.

Licheking it appears to be similar between CT, MT, TNE, T4 and T20. I don't know about MongT or GT.
 
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Presumably, the ship getting the rehaul maintenance is in a dry dock, away from the shipping docks and warehouses, so it wouldn't be tying up expensive docking bay space.
This also means that the maintenance is schedualed well in advance, and missing your appointment would mean you just don't get checked.
 
It's may well be scheduled in advance, but any decent shipyard is gonna have overflow capacity. I'm sure you can get a "walk-in" appointment. For a reasonable fee of course. :devil:
 
This also means that the maintenance is schedualed well in advance, and missing your appointment would mean you just don't get checked.

IF everyone was schedule WELL in advance, that means a missed appt means an open "slot" for someone else. That someone else could just well be the PC's. ;)
 
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