Trojan Points said:
However, even in that ideal situation, I'd tend to think that as jump number (and thus fuel to hull ratio) goes up, the number of passengers carried goes down and prices per head have to go up too keep an overhead... Or not?
After several failed attempts to make sense of Traveller's economy,
I decided to use a different approach for the pricing of passages. As
I handle it now, the passenger basically books a (mobile) hotel room
for a specific number of days, with the price depending on the quality
of the accomodation and the available service.
Despite their higher overhead and therefore higher basic price the fa-
ster ships normally attract enough passengers because these passen-
gers have to book their rooms for a smaller number of days, and the
faster ships usually also are the newer ones and provide better acco-
modations and better service.
On a route of 2 parsec the passenger therefore has the choice to book
a comparatively inexpensive room for 15 days on a slow ship or a com-
paratively expensive room for 8 days on a fast ship (each voyage inclu-
des 1 day for transfer and thelike).
