07-10-2011, 01:30 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Odense, Denmark (Northern Europe)
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LT, LTC3, Buildings and Materials
Recently it came up in my campaign that someone wanted to construct buildings, and to save money, transport and construct it themselves, mostly.
In LTC3, there is a nice formula (in chapter 6) for finding a buildings cost and weight, and a table saying that for wooden structures, 20% is construction labor, and the rest is materials. Now, adding this together with the cost for wood on the materials table in chapter 5, these numbers really don't add up. Example: A house, 60 ft long, 18 ft wide, 7 ft. tall, 2'' planks. We settle for a partition factor of 0,4. This gives us a cost of 25,038 (60 x 18 x 7 x 2 x 0,4 x 4,14$) and a weight of 16148 lbs (~8 tons) (60 x 18 x 7 x 2 x 0,4 x 2,67). So, followind this, 20% should be construction labor, around 5008. That leaves 20,030 for materials. Looking at chapter 5, we see that 2'' planks are $1.45 / lb., which gives us a material cost of 23414 ($1.45 x 16148 lbs), which is significantly more than the 80% it should be. Any suggestions as to how I should use and/or tweak these numbers to arrive at a fair and reasonable solution for my players?
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07-10-2011, 01:38 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Dallas, TX
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Re: LT, LTC3, Buildings and Materials
Perhaps the wood for the house isn't planks, or if it is, the builders cut them themselves on site.
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07-10-2011, 01:41 PM | #3 | |
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Re: LT, LTC3, Buildings and Materials
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Another thing you might consider: I never use the exact figure from the books for prices in a low-tech setting. I make a roll on behalf of the vendor/workers that looks similar to a reaction roll and use that to adjust prices up or down by several percent. That way the prices always feel arbitrary and subject to local, obscure factors that would define societies still steeped in barter economies.
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Besides, I like numbers, and I like writing programs that utilize these numbers, but when they don't add up, I get stuck (well, most of the time I wing it or run some kind of math analysis on the numbers, but it's not always enough).
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