Imperial Navy Ship and Shipyard Sizes

[Terry Mixon]

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.

 

[J. L. Brown]

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.

 

[Terry Mixon]

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.

 

[Terry Mixon]

At a very minimum, the TCS numbers are similar, so I'll avoid the maths going forward and use them. Close enough for government work, I say.

 

[Geir]

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).