can I do this with Traveller?

[briansommers]

so far I'm play this solo and I mean true solo, I'm the gm and the player..

I've been interested in pc flight simulation (MS flight Simulator 2004 and FSX, etc) for years and have toyed with the idea to start up an air charter or on-demand cargo business simulation.

ok, I say the above to say this: with the awesome trade rules, etc I got to thinkin' that this is exactly that but just way into the future

now my question. Instead of rolling characters up etc like usual, could I use trav. to startup and run a cargo company, where clients would come to me(my business) to ship cargo around, etc.. I think this would work, I guess I would have to roll up stats for brokers that would work for me and me the CEO as well as well as the crews for the freighters, etc. I think I would need to simplify it a bit.. so it would be quicker but maybe not.. oooh now that I think about it more, I could stat out a whole bunch of pilots, navigators, engineers etc then pick from the pool to send them out for there cargo runs, etc. It would played as a more operational type of game,,

could this work? problems to look out for, etc?

thanks
bs

 

[celmive]

Why wouldn't it work ? Sounds like a great idea and fun way to pass some hours. Maybe get some random tables written up for "unexpected" events

Let us know how it goes.

 

[AndrewW]

I don't see why it wouldn't work. As long as you are having fun with it it works.

Maybe add events that can happen to the ships while out on cargo runs.

 

[briansommers]

yes, it definitely needs some tables to roll on to see what happens, maybe every day or week or ??

thanks, it'll be slow going to get everything setup, but should be a lot of fun actually.. will keep everyone posted once everything gets started.