An Alternate Take On Fabrication Rules

[Terry Mixon]

An approach I would take, if I was writing 'Manufacturing Plant' rules is that each manufacturing plant takes in 'production stock materials' and out puts 'product' of its' own TL. I would make manufacturing a multi-step process:
1} Extraction (produces ore)
2} Smelting/refining (produces material)
3} Making production stock (produces components)
4} Producing product (produces finished goods)

The basic assumption is X Cr of input = >X Cr of output; but this improves as TL rises. At TL 1 1000 Cr in might equal 1001 Cr out, and half of the material is 'waste'; but TL 2 would produce both more value & less waste, etc. If you want to model more valuable output, feed in more input -- but the higher Cr output means more waste.

This is for Manufacturing Plants; Fabricators would produce more waste for a given (lower TL than the fabricator) item from a (TL appropriate to the item) Manufacturing Plant.

Lay out the 'productivity' and 'waste' curves so as not to cross the 100% mark before 'maximum TL' unless you are prepared to explain it. The 'waste' might just be useful for making bricks, or some fraction of it might have enough value to go back into the 'Extraction' end of production.

Bleah. I am just roughing this; I haven't really thought it through. I will probably build a spreadsheet at some point. Sorry for being a bit incoherent.

No worries. I’m incoherent all the time.

 

[rinku]

I'd leave credit values out of it almost totally. Just "X amount of input, X/n amount of output" for each stage. If you're on-selling at any point in process it's a matter for market negotiation. If you're keeping it all within the one production line, the nominal sale price of a material is moot; as an old Chemistry teacher of mine used to say, it's just buckets of hydrogen and buckets of oxygen, really.

 

[Terry Mixon]

I'd leave credit values out of it almost totally. Just "X amount of input, X/n amount of output" for each stage. If you're on-selling at any point in process it's a matter for market negotiation. If you're keeping it all within the one production line, the nominal sale price of a material is moot; as an old Chemistry teacher of mine used to say, it's just buckets of hydrogen and buckets of oxygen, really.

Well, the rules are the ones that brought the value of the raw materials into it. I was just trying to find a way to quantify that.

 

[rinku]

Fair enough, but the mass of the stuff and what it actually costs you to get that is what you need.

Although in many cases a default market value is needed I guess, if you're purchasing at that stage.

 

[Terry Mixon]

Fair enough, but the mass of the stuff and what it actually costs you to get that is what you need.

Although in many cases a default market value is needed I guess, if you're purchasing at that stage.

And that's the issue I was running into.

 

[rinku]

Redefine the Credit as pegged to the work-hour.

Or, to keep things SI, pegged to Joules.