AKAramis said:
phavoc said:
Are you modeling standard starship cabins for occupancy? Shorter in-system flights would be more likely to have smaller cabins, such as you find on rail cars, for 1-3 day trips.
Also, if lifesupport costs are now Cr1,000/per person/per week, I don't think your numbers will hold up. Assuming that 50% of the cost is purely in life support consumables, that equates to Cr71 per day. Even someone flying in cargo will require the same baseline cost as someone traveling as an HPSO.
You'll note that I list both single and double occupancy pricing; Matthew removed the doubles.
I figure share of steward and of steward's cabin and LS, and medic as well.
And you failed to read that it's KCr1 occupied or not, and kCr 1 per passenger; the only one needs fixing is basic...
You should go back and re-read what Matthew said about life support. To save you that effort I will quote it here for you:
On life support, I have altered the table to say Cr1000 per Stateroom, removed Double Occupancy, and added Cr1000 per Person on board (so, one person in a Stateroom totals Cr2000).
Do note that you failed to read when you were trying to call me out for failing to read. See, I can be a jerk too, but it does nothing for the conversation or lead us to an agreement.
The numbers for the lower portions of travel still don't add up correctly. Using what has been put forth as gospel (i.e. Cr1000 per person on board), a quadruple-occupied stateroom still bears 4x the costs in life support.
So lets do the math. Your table says M1 quadruple occupancy is Cr42 per person, per day. That's Cr168/day from all four occupants. Since we don't have a published breakdown on what constitutes life support costs, its a fair assumption to use HALF of that number as consumables. At Cr1,000/week, that's Cr71/day PER PERSON.
So your table means that a sublight vessel hauling people around will LOSE Cr29 per person/per day. Or, in this example, for revenue of Cr168/per day, the operator spent Cr284. That is NOT including ship mortgage, crew costs, or, more importantly, profit.
As far as the passengers traveling as cargo (not stuffed in a stateroom, but in the actual cargo hold), I would question (a) the legality of it in the Imperium due to safety regulations (it's taking laissez faire to a silly extreme), (b) for sublight you are generating Cr6/per person before any other expense beyond life support, so it's really not economically feasible, and (c) you can put more people in a cargo hold in proper seats than you can just selling a square of deck plating - assuming you aren't into people smuggling, which if that's the case you don't normally have advertised rates.
Since you've seen HG and the rest of us have not we only have the CRB (and what's been posted on the board) to go by. Even if the rest of the starship operations costs have radically been reduced we are left with inconsistencies with the SL table.
