FT-Ship construction (was RE:Campaigns)

At the present moment, I'm looking at the concept that build times based on

> At 04:27 PM 08/26/2001 -0400, you wrote:

Actually - I would treat it based on used Mass instead of empy mass.
Cargo units (would become systems in my FT universe by the way) are empty and
do not count against the ship's mass.

I have some ideas about ship construction, and they run allong these lines.

Build time is based on the size of the drives (mass of ship times thrust) and
hull DP`s (making slow freighters cheaper to build than a battlewagon). Some
systems are built as prefabricated components (weapons, fighters and their
bays, etc), and may be built in different systems to the shipyard and shipped
to said system (a reason for freighters). The maximum size of prefabricated
component is the limit of the hold size of the freighters being used (makes
smaller ships and freighters with their smaller drives posible as
prefabricated builds, but big battlewagons as built, not assembiled, on the
slips).

I haven`t thought of any numbers, due to the fact of never having played a
campaign, but I would see prefabricated ships being built quicker (or less
time on the slips anyway), with the time taken to build these components
elsewhere being taken from the time to build the ship on the slips.

Just some ideas for you to work with.

Basing it on mass means big freighters take a long time even though there's a
lot of empty space, sure you don't want to use NPV?

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> "Laserlight" <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:

> Basing it on mass means big freighters take a long time even though
How about using 'used' mass, i.e. don't count MASS used for cargo (MASS used
for passengers, troops, science labs, etc. should be counted, but perhaps with
a discount)?

Also, perhaps a discount for 'civilian hull' to represent the smaller crew
facilities?