[X] Large Cargo Ship (-12 Industry)
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Sayle has mentioned when someone asked before about the previous option we had for a cargo ship that this will not effect our Industry score because all the key industries and infrastructure for producing starships are currently located on Earth. Presumably over a larger timescale, this would become more relevant as GDP grows faster, but I think this is likely longer than the timescale of the Quest considering this phase may terminate with the end of the Earth-Romulan War.
- Location
- United States
[X] Small Cargo Ship (-9 Industry)
[x] Large Cargo Ship (-12 Industry)
Empress_Boog
Grand Empress
It's actually better for the nation overall too. Once a convoy broke apart and started sailing independently after a u-boat sighting/fight, it would be almost impossible to sink all of them. Where as if the convoy was made of lesser number but larger ships, this would not be the case.
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Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
- Location
- USoA
[X] Small Cargo Ship (-9 Industry)
- Location
- alphen aan den rijn
is there going to something to track how much industry is being spend where? or is that a abstract thing that going to tick away in the background?
- Location
- USA
I must've missed that. Well, I'm free to be wrong. Also, the messages I quoted still have valid reasons for my vote.
- Location
- United States
[X] Small Cargo Ship (-9 Industry)
Yeah fair enough, there's definitely valid reasons for each vote, or it would not be presented to us as a vote. I think the smaller ship fits better with our current situation, but there's definitely a case to be made for each option.
- Location
- France
- Pronouns
- She/They
It might affect efforts to set up outposts that will change this in the future though.
grimely
Twink Death Sufferer
According to one of the Daedalus posts the warp 3 engine was designed to allow refits for the warp 5 engine, so, yes.
- Location
- Florida
[X] Large Cargo Ship (-12 Industry)
- Location
- USA
While a modular cargo vessel would be nice, one where we can attach and detach prefilled cargo pods as needed, the bigger concern is firing arcs for me.
We cant afford to give these a ton of weaponry, so I'm hoping we can mount the cannons one ventral and one dorsal
We cant afford to give these a ton of weaponry, so I'm hoping we can mount the cannons one ventral and one dorsal
It absolutely might, although again, I don't expect this to be the case in the near or even medium term. I expect there is not likely to be a direct numerical effect due to how Sayle is tracking things. If there's an intermission between time periods, then @Sayle may well take into account "how are the colonies doing" when he's working out a starting Industry score if we move into the TOS or pre-TOS era, though. Or possibly more broadly "how well are the players doing?".
However I would also make the point that the smaller cargo ship does not necessarily imply lower economic growth in the colonies. Whilst the smaller ship is individually a less efficient cargo carrier, it is cheaper and a better combatant, meaning we can build them as convoy escorts for our existing bulk freighters, which are even cheaper to build. If this means that supply convoys can arrive more often without pirate raids, it might actually increase our net cargo deliveries by more than if we built individually larger ships.
That's purely conjectural, of course, and I wouldn't want to suggest otherwise. But so is the idea that choosing the larger ship size will automatically mean our colonies grow faster.
