[Spaceships] Total life support

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

Total life support weighs the exact same per person for all of these ships. Therefore, total life support is nothing like crates of dried oranges.

Actually, total life support is exactly the same per ship using the approach with a replicator or an "open space" garden/farm, regardless of the number of people or the length of the trip. It is only when using the habitat-enhancing approach that the burden is the same per person on all missions. And that is a rather inefficent approach, one that you would only take if the number of crew and passengers required on the trip were small compared to teh capacity of one habitat system.

[David L Pulver]

Originally Posted by Brett

Actually, total life support is exactly the same per ship using the approach with a replicator or an "open space" garden/farm, regardless of the number of people or the length of the trip. It is only when using the habitat-enhancing approach that the burden is the same per person on all missions. And that is a rather inefficent approach, one that you would only take if the number of crew and passengers required on the trip were small compared to teh capacity of one habitat system.

For more realism, assigning a number of persons supported per area that a open space provides would be better.

[Crakkerjakk]

Originally Posted by David L Pulver

For more realism, assigning a number of persons supported per area that a open space provides would be better.

Perhaps with a TL modifier.

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by David L Pulver

For more realism, assigning a number of persons supported per area that a open space provides would be better.

How do you feel about a number of persons supported per cabin at sufficiently high TLs?

[The Colonel]

Originally Posted by David L Pulver

For more realism, assigning a number of persons supported per area that a open space provides would be better.

This is where our stacking limits return ... for example the RMS Queen Mary was designed for about 2k passengers by 1934 standards (~700 each first and second class and about 600 steerage) and a bit over a thousand crew.
As a troop ship she carried 15-16k men per run.