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Originally posted by Kaiser Kirk
Howdy,
Trying to cobble together a building plan, since my current one only goes to Q4,1935...
A while ago there was a great long thread about build times for ships, and I think we decided on a new formula to come into play in 1936... but I don't recall the thread or the decision, nor is it in the Infrastructure rules.
Search found "Large Ship Construction Times" and "Economy of Scale" but that didn't conclude anything. Could somebody tell me a good search term, point me there, regurgitate the decision, amend the Infrastructure rules
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Just something I feel the need to bring up...
Our economy rules seem to extend and prolong the building of larger ships far longer than designs of similar size took historically;
A 65k ton light Yamato took 49 months; 4 years, 1 month. Our economy would take the same design 74 months to complete; 6 years, 2 months.
A 34k light USS Indiana took 30 months; 2.5 years. Our economy would take 43 months; 3 years, 7 months.
A 44k light USS New Jersey took 33 months; 2 years, 9 months. Our economy would take 53 months; 4 years, 5 months.
Other examples are similar, but I'm not going to do the math on all of them; I think the point is pretty clear. For these larger ships, it's taking somewhere between half again, or twice(!) as long to build these ships as it should.
I'm not sure how the light displacement/1000 + 9 months rules came about, and it may work accurately for smaller ships, but there's something very wrong with it for the larger ships.
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Originally posted by Ithekro
I was under the impression that war economy allowed one to put 1,200 tons of material per month into a project instead of 1,000 per month. I didn't use it during the war, because I didn't have enough material to spare to rush construction (plus it was a ground war). While that is only 2,400 more per year, it does a little to reduce time. (or was that the one where we divided the total light tonnage by 1,200 instead of 1,000 to get the time needed for construction, thus reducing the time needed to finish?)
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