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At 08:42 AM 7/28/05 -0400, you wrote: <br>
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sorry if my tone was harsh&I didn t mean to sound that way. R&D
on rules based on a synthesis of mix-matched sources is a tough
task.<br>
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But 1BB per board foot (93 BB for 93 BF) sounds way off track, especially
when trying to fit with P&P prices. My construction cost figuring,
in where I figured the prices based on the cost of the labor has lumber
at an average of 0.15 BB per BF. A price variance of 2.8 orders of
magnitude means we have very differing baselines.<br>
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<font size=3 color="#FFFFFF">Wasn't upset. Just frustrating since
theres no one good source out there for all this stuff. Takes 30-40
sites to find that one key piece of data :) I looked all last night
well 6 hours on sites for timber prices, medieval ship prices, building
costs, wood costs, ancient ship prices/costs all various keyword
searches. Nada. I did find 1 site that gave some interesting
facts which I have also confirmed locally when a ship (the old 16th
century ones) came to port and I asked questions. In this case to
do ...ugh should've noted this...the HMS Venture was 687K pounds.
In today's figures per the economic history site would be about 28.3
million :) So making a ship is not cheap as the various other rules
in gamedom seem to imply. </blockquote><br>
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If we just make timber cheap or free we really get the bulk of the cost
out of the equation. Hull structure by all accounts of naval
historysites is at least 60-70% of the ship's cost in olden times.
That's expert opinions not mine :< Course they don't go into
greatt detail on those costs. Based on modern times ...oh darn!
darn darn darn! I should have applied that 93 cents to ancient
terms but when? Hrm...good idea to get a 500-600 year rate back
then ....maybe apply it to 11th century rates....I'll have to think about
that. <br>
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Its all subjective. 1 BB is way too cheap for a piece of
wood. I mean you call any hardware store (and I've visited some
recently) and compare prices of the modern same its a bit more.
Course it boils down to the conersion rates.<br>
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Only definitive price I have is 1 talent for 1 Trireme. <br>
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