[TML] [Merchant Shipping] Some ideas I came up with to make merchant shipping more interesing

[Evyn MacDude]

On  Apr10 08, at 20:10, Jerry W Barrington wrote:

> It's not fuel consumption: the design systems allow for the plant  
> running
> for a month anyway.  And no reasonable batteries are going to run  
> the ship's
> systems for days or weeks in port.  Pay the port for electricity  
> when I've
> got my own plant?  I don't think so.

Part of your docking fees, pay one way or the other.

> The only reason seems to be so the GM can inflict things on the  
> players
> "with their pant down", which is a meta-game reason, not an in-game  
> reason.

I have a great one, your engineer wants to leave the ship, get laid,  
drunk or
just about anything but work. Besides his overtime alone will kill your
bottom-line.

Evyn MacDude
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