vargr1 said:<Snip!>
This. If you want large cruise ships in your TU, then they exist. I've always believed that the published T&C rules only apply to the standard tramp freighter and it's ecosystem. Other ships (especially the large container ships and multi-thousand dton cruise liners) use different rules altogether. I prefer the "cosmopolitan universe" that MM writes about. Star travel is common and a large minority of people have traveled off their home planet for business, pleasure, or military purposes.
But, I'm a heretic.
The "Making A Living" sidebar on Pg. 210 of the MgT 2e CRB explicitly makes this point re: the speculative trading rules only applying to small-time traders and the economic ecosystem they live in. It's not unreasonable to infer that the same applies to passenger haulage, which leaves open the question of what regularly scheduled service might look like and cost to the imagination of each individual Referee.
Alternatively, we could start prodding Mongoose to get Merchant Prince 2e on the calendar and make sure it addresses the passenger side of the haulage equation too.
Either solution works, though, I think.
