WTH and FFS1

[Marshall D.]

I'm just getting back into Traveller after a long hiatus.

Has anyone done anything with the Economic Model in WTH to make it work on a macro scale?

Is there a collection of FFS1 errata that brings it more in line with the corrections of FFS2?

Thanks,

 

[aramis]

what figure were you using for results? Cr?

 

[Marshall D.]

I've tried with WTH to use real world figures, but some of them are difficult to research. What figures did you use, and how did you convert credits?

 

[aramis]

If it's off by a factor of two on food production, that's really quite sensible; it can be chalked up to "alien biosphere" and the difficulty of raising off-world foods.

 

[darktalon]

Originally posted by thrash:
As a test case, I applied current world figures for population, arable land, etc., to the model in World Tamers' Handbook. The results were lower than their real world counterparts, by a factor of two.

A factor of two is no biggie. At least it's the right order of magnitude. (Yes, I do have a sideline in theoretical physics. Why do you ask? )

 

[TheDS]

Geez, I did something simple myself: I looked at how many sqkm of land it would take to feed the world's current population (6 billion) at TL8, and maybe I can't count, but the answer I got was that we needed 30 Earth's (or only 10 if we used the water's surface).

I was making a spreadsheet to do this stuff on a whole-world scale, basically to make it possible to build an entire world quickly, but of course, I never got done, half the problem being that there were an awful lot of calculations to do with a single hex, and then to go and make something able to handle all 490-500 hexes of a world was a bit more than I could handle.