Do they provide tonnage for luxury vs high? What about mid and low passage? Any new updates for that?
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Terry Mixon
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6 tons for High and 10 tons for Luxury. They don’t mention Middle or Low.
That's kind of a fair tradeoff then. You get more room, and of course your fixtures and food are of higher quality. Based on that cost I would expect at least some "basic" liquor to be added to that cost.
I think Middle would be the same Dtons as High, but more basic (Motel 6 vs higher-end Marriott). Food is decent, etc.
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
Hrm. I wonder if they ran any statistics on that. The costs associated to that include having a steward available 24/7, which means more than 1 person being assigned, hence your crew complement will need to be increased taking the book text as it is written and applying basic operational common sense.
Operationally that only sounds good on paper. How often have you seen a first-class flight attendant filling in on the coach class? Personally I've never seen that happening. The level of steward is probably also too high. For the most part, anyone with basic Steward-1 training is sufficient. What they should do is re-write that and have a supervisor for X number of stewards. The "little people" doing all the work are just drones. The head butler or head maid is the one whom the passengers will complain too, and they will be the ones who know how to talk to rich people with too much time on their hands.
I wonder if the author researched how this stuff works in actual really high-end establishments?
Operationally that only sounds good on paper. How often have you seen a first-class flight attendant filling in on the coach class? Personally I've never seen that happening. The level of steward is probably also too high. For the most part, anyone with basic Steward-1 training is sufficient. What they should do is re-write that and have a supervisor for X number of stewards. The "little people" doing all the work are just drones. The head butler or head maid is the one whom the passengers will complain too, and they will be the ones who know how to talk to rich people with too much time on their hands.
I wonder if the author researched how this stuff works in actual really high-end establishments?
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
I’m not sure but I’ll be making sure the stewards in my Singularity party get woken up at odd hours with ridiculous demands.
Steward basic pay rates are only Cr2,000 per 4 weeks, so even a premium one isn't going to be too expensive for a passenger paying CR16,000 per parsec.
Nothing in there saying you can't use robots, either. Although at this level of passage that aspect is going to be dictated by the passenger...
"My man, you will provide me ONLY with well trained Vargr stewards. Handsome ones, mind! In matching fur colours!"
"Ewww, Becky! Look, the lesser classes only have disgusting... biological servants! Oh. Mah. Gawd. Thank space jeebus I booked the ticket to have proper, sanitary, mechanical help!"
"Yes, yes, yes. I'm sure your staff are quite competent. But WE will require M15T3R J33V35 to perform all our shipboard attendance. Provide him with the relevant security codes and access to your galley and so forth."
Nothing in there saying you can't use robots, either. Although at this level of passage that aspect is going to be dictated by the passenger...
"My man, you will provide me ONLY with well trained Vargr stewards. Handsome ones, mind! In matching fur colours!"
"Ewww, Becky! Look, the lesser classes only have disgusting... biological servants! Oh. Mah. Gawd. Thank space jeebus I booked the ticket to have proper, sanitary, mechanical help!"
"Yes, yes, yes. I'm sure your staff are quite competent. But WE will require M15T3R J33V35 to perform all our shipboard attendance. Provide him with the relevant security codes and access to your galley and so forth."
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Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
Yep, all this and more.
AndrewW
Emperor Mongoose
Don't forget to include the staterooms (or whatever berthing) and life support costs for all the extra stewards.
It probably deserves its own "interesting passenger" table, to be honest.
And, of course, as with normal high passengers there's crew overhead. Although I did see that a steward personally assigned to a Luxury passenger is still able to serve others. Probably best that those are Middle passage ones that can be safely ignored, and the High Passengers have the usual 1 per ten.
And, of course, as with normal high passengers there's crew overhead. Although I did see that a steward personally assigned to a Luxury passenger is still able to serve others. Probably best that those are Middle passage ones that can be safely ignored, and the High Passengers have the usual 1 per ten.
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
There are plenty of aspects that are new and you can find them in the Singularity preview pdf. I'm sure there will be more in a week and a half for backers.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0609/6139/0839/files/Singularity_Preview.pdf?v=1744800113
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0609/6139/0839/files/Singularity_Preview.pdf?v=1744800113
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