2300AD Conversion - Page 3

hal · 02-11-2020, 01:03 AM

Just adding this one note to the thread for future readers...

There is a section in 2300 AD that gives the rational for converting prices into Livres.

In a nutshell - convert the 1980 prices of goods to Livres by the expediency of taking the price and dividing by 3. Thus, something that was priced at say, $4 in 1980 dollars, would be 1.33 Livres.

Looking up what the 1980 prices are in 2020 values, I find that $1 in 1980 is about 3.3504 dollars today. If using that same level of advice for today's goods, translating the price of today's goods into Livres would be accomplished by dividing by 10.0512 (or simply by 10 to keep it simple).

If you have access to the PDF for 2300 put out by FFE - you will need to look for the heading "UPKEEP" - it is located there.

This section of the rules also suggests that if the product is not something that is locally manufactured on a frontier world, to multiply it by a factor of 2 or 3 to incorporate the transit costs of shipping.

Wages: Wages are listed as being about 1 Livre per hour for unskilled, on up to about 5 to 10 livres per hour for skilled labor. Office workers, soldiers, and starship crew earn about 10,000 to 15,000 Livres.

In light of the divide by 3 convention, 1 Livre would be about $3 per hour in 1980 terms. 10,000 Livre per year assuming 2080 hours per year, works out to about 4.81 Livre per hour, or roughly $14.42 an hour in american dollars (circa 1980).

Hope this helps.

02-11-2020, 01:03 AM	#21
hal Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Buffalo, New York	Re: 2300AD Conversion Just adding this one note to the thread for future readers... There is a section in 2300 AD that gives the rational for converting prices into Livres. In a nutshell - convert the 1980 prices of goods to Livres by the expediency of taking the price and dividing by 3. Thus, something that was priced at say, $4 in 1980 dollars, would be 1.33 Livres. Looking up what the 1980 prices are in 2020 values, I find that $1 in 1980 is about 3.3504 dollars today. If using that same level of advice for today's goods, translating the price of today's goods into Livres would be accomplished by dividing by 10.0512 (or simply by 10 to keep it simple). If you have access to the PDF for 2300 put out by FFE - you will need to look for the heading "UPKEEP" - it is located there. This section of the rules also suggests that if the product is not something that is locally manufactured on a frontier world, to multiply it by a factor of 2 or 3 to incorporate the transit costs of shipping. Wages: Wages are listed as being about 1 Livre per hour for unskilled, on up to about 5 to 10 livres per hour for skilled labor. Office workers, soldiers, and starship crew earn about 10,000 to 15,000 Livres. In light of the divide by 3 convention, 1 Livre would be about $3 per hour in 1980 terms. 10,000 Livre per year assuming 2080 hours per year, works out to about 4.81 Livre per hour, or roughly $14.42 an hour in american dollars (circa 1980). Hope this helps.