Re: Companies in Spelljammer

But don't forget, Spelljammer is a magical society, so why not hire a
mage to keep casting cold-natured spells at the mangoes?  Then you could
sell them anywhere you wanted?

Yours truly,
Sable

--- Michael Sandy <wuggadad@??????.com> wrote:
>>--- George LaValle <flamebringer@???????.com> heckled:
>> > ...
>> > Yeah...
>> > Pirates are suddenly going to start stealing MANGOES!!! SOMEBODY
>> > PROTECT THE
>> > MANGOES!!!
>>
>>If they are such valuable cargo in the first place you bet they will.
>
>I think that it would be wise to make a distinction between _valuable_
>cargo and _profitable_ cargo.
>
>If you can buy and ship mangos to market for 3 days ship's crew
>wages, 1 days dock crew wages, and 200 3rd World day laborer
>days pay, and sell for twice that, you have a profitable cargo.
>
>_However_, that is not a _valuable_ cargo.  If overhead and
>maintainence come to 1000 gp/month, and you can complete
>7 runs with a profit per run of 300 gp, say 30 gp/HS, you
>are doing pretty well.
>
>If you have to spend 2 months for a run with cargo worth 10,000 gp,
>you would need more than a 10% markup to break even.
>
>Finished items, like steel bars, might sell for 10 times that cost per
>ton of ship space, but with only a 10% mark up, they would be a
>much more capital intense cargo, and vulnerable to small percentage
>change fluctuations in the market.
>
>>
>>Then why is anyone carrying them as cargo?
>
>Some cargos are going to be seasonable, based on when the transit
>time is short enough to justify the small mark up.
>
>A run for ice or mangos could be worth it when the source is
>fairly close by, because of the low cost of the good at the
>source.
>
>Sometimes a consistent income is worth it.  A spaceport might
>be served by one ship making the ice run.  If someone else
>started making the ice run too, the price would crash, so there
>is no worry about competition, as there would be no point.
>
>The low value of the good means that robbery isn't much of a problem,
>just worrying about someone taking the ship.  For these runs, use
>really cheap helms, like Create Minor Helm spells and you don't even
>need to worry about that, it would be too much trouble for most
>pirates to even bother, and the crew would keep most of their
>valuables in port.
>
>Figure 10,000 gp for a barge and a spell, and at 1,000 gp/month
>profit over wages and you could pay it off in under a year.  That
>looks like an appealing venture to me!
>
>Michael Sandy
>
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