Imperial Navy Ship and Shipyard Sizes

Thank you. I'm not sure I buy the WBHB numbers; they seem to imply that all ships take about six years to build. Maybe they make sense, and I have not run the numbers myself -- but at first blush this seems a bit odd.

It did! Thank you very much!
The World Builder's Handbook makes the assumption that the more important the system, the greater the number of really big ships that take years and years to complete. The less important systems have a higher output by percentage.
 
The World Builder's Handbook makes the assumption that the more important the system, the greater the number of really big ships that take years and years to complete. The less important systems have a higher output by percentage.
That seems to break down under scrutiny, though. Ships of 50000 dTons and larger can use modular construction to reduce time by 90%.

As I said, I have not run the numbers for myself; and maybe they do make sense. This is just knee-jerk stuff. I appreciate the work you are putting into this, thank you.
 
That seems to break down under scrutiny, though. Ships of 50000 dTons and larger can use modular construction to reduce time by 90%.

As I said, I have not run the numbers for myself; and maybe they do make sense. This is just knee-jerk stuff. I appreciate the work you are putting into this, thank you.
You're welcome.

I'll let Gier or someone else argue the validity of the numbers. ;)
 
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I tried to make the WHB numbers come out close to TCS, but the whole million credits a day with a hard cutoff at 50,000 tons is arbitrary and mixes units. I liked the old 'this many months for up to this big' better. But... some vessels sat in the yard for decades due to lack of funds or changing priorities, so I can't model that either. And I didn't account for High Guard's lowered times at high tech levels either (books crossed in the making).
 
New to me information that I just stumbled across (per Travellers Digest #20):
Alexander Quinn, Duke of Tobia (dies 1118) is not a (one of 38x16 = 608) sub-sector Duke; he is a (one of 38) sector Duke. He might be a backwater nobody as far as Sector Dukes go, but that still outranks (and out Moot-votes) a large number of other nobles. Add to that the possibility that he is not directly under an Archduke of a Domain, and maybe he has a little more latitude to acquire (or, far more likely, build) some naval assets for local use.
 
Ehh, not really? Sector Duke is a 'first among equals' sort of status. It has a certain degree of real administrative power, but it isn't technically a higher social status.

As far as Moot votes go, it isn't clear whether or not higher titles actually give more votes directly. It is entirely possible that higher level nobles have more influence because they have more ability to gain proxy votes from their subordinates. And the Duke of Tobia doesn't fare well in that because his "Sector" is 2 1/2 subsectors.
 
A quick take on building things from an expert.
The link goes to the correct post, not sure why the preview is not.

 
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