I have been toying with tools to make deck plans for a while. I have an old design I played with for a true luxury liner, but I need some opinions.
Based on the recent thread listing real world cabin sizes, I have some MTU decisions to make.
1: Life support. Should it be based on equivalent standard cabin spaces (1/2 dt for every 4 dt of passenger and crew space)? Or is it strictly 1/2 dt per body?
2. I have always thought of the standard passenger rates a little differently.
(cargo the same for that matter). The Imperium guarantees you can get a high passage from world a to world b for 10,000cr per jump. They do NOT guarantee that every ship will sell every cabin for that rate. This is of course MTU, and directly contradicts the assumptions made in all other discussions of economics.
As I see it, in a large ship universe, even if 99.99% of all passengers and cargo travel at the standard rate, there is many times over the cargo and passengers either waiting for space or in too much of a hurry, or just plain doesn't have the papers that every tramp hauler should never have less than a full load in any but the smallest ports.
With these heresies in place I am working on the QUEEN VICTORIA fleet of super luxury liners.
30,000 dt
Jump 2
maneuver 1
Roughly 4500 passengers.
Tourist class, (roughly 1st class on lessor vessels 10,000cr per parcect
Luxury class, 25.000cr per parcect aan
Master class deluxe Suites at 45,000cr per parcect.
Full meeting rooms and conference facilities, Lounges, night clubs, gambling halls and a promenade featuring the most exclusive retailers in the Imperium.
If every thing works the way I have it assembled, there will be ffull deck plans in Campaign Cartographer.
Each ship will make a six month loop up and down the most prosperous mains.
They feature conferences that cannot be leaked until the end of jump, Private corporate and government negotiations, one of a kind Concerts, and shows that are truly once in a lifetime extravaganzas.
Lower decks feature cafes port and starboard that have transparent floors leaving diners suspended in space, and offering spectacular views of the destination worlds.
It is ambitious, but then I have been sketching and calculating and designing tools specifically to aid large scale deck plans for almost two years, and I think I am ready to debut now.
Based on the recent thread listing real world cabin sizes, I have some MTU decisions to make.
1: Life support. Should it be based on equivalent standard cabin spaces (1/2 dt for every 4 dt of passenger and crew space)? Or is it strictly 1/2 dt per body?
2. I have always thought of the standard passenger rates a little differently.
(cargo the same for that matter). The Imperium guarantees you can get a high passage from world a to world b for 10,000cr per jump. They do NOT guarantee that every ship will sell every cabin for that rate. This is of course MTU, and directly contradicts the assumptions made in all other discussions of economics.
As I see it, in a large ship universe, even if 99.99% of all passengers and cargo travel at the standard rate, there is many times over the cargo and passengers either waiting for space or in too much of a hurry, or just plain doesn't have the papers that every tramp hauler should never have less than a full load in any but the smallest ports.
With these heresies in place I am working on the QUEEN VICTORIA fleet of super luxury liners.
30,000 dt
Jump 2
maneuver 1
Roughly 4500 passengers.
Tourist class, (roughly 1st class on lessor vessels 10,000cr per parcect
Luxury class, 25.000cr per parcect aan
Master class deluxe Suites at 45,000cr per parcect.
Full meeting rooms and conference facilities, Lounges, night clubs, gambling halls and a promenade featuring the most exclusive retailers in the Imperium.
If every thing works the way I have it assembled, there will be ffull deck plans in Campaign Cartographer.
Each ship will make a six month loop up and down the most prosperous mains.
They feature conferences that cannot be leaked until the end of jump, Private corporate and government negotiations, one of a kind Concerts, and shows that are truly once in a lifetime extravaganzas.
Lower decks feature cafes port and starboard that have transparent floors leaving diners suspended in space, and offering spectacular views of the destination worlds.
It is ambitious, but then I have been sketching and calculating and designing tools specifically to aid large scale deck plans for almost two years, and I think I am ready to debut now.