[Spaceships] Are spaceships unrealistically cheap? - Page 6

Michael Thayne · 07-21-2017, 08:13 PM

Looking at the prices in Spaceships, it looks an awful lot like they make most spaceships unrealistically cheap. Just as bad, from a pure internal-consistency point of view, they seem noticeably cheaper than other things in the game.

One conspicuous example is the relative cost of spaceships vs. missiles, which tends to favor small kamakazi dogfight drones over standard missiles in seemingly implausible ways. The SM+4 drones in Spaceships 4 have the same order-of-magnitude cost as SM+0 missiles, while the SM+5 hornet has the same cost as an SM+3 missile. But it's not just missiles—aircraft in sources like Pyramid #3/53 are much more expensive than if you tried to replicate them with Spaceships. Does anyone know what's going on here?

07-21-2017, 08:13 PM	#1
Michael Thayne Join Date: May 2010	[Spaceships] Are spaceships unrealistically cheap? Looking at the prices in *Spaceships, it looks an awful lot like they make most spaceships unrealistically cheap. Just as bad, from a pure internal-consistency point of view, they seem noticeably cheaper than other things in the game. One conspicuous example is the relative cost of spaceships vs. missiles, which tends to favor small kamakazi dogfight drones over standard missiles in seemingly implausible ways. The SM+4 drones in Spaceships 4* have the same order-of-magnitude cost as SM+0 missiles, while the SM+5 hornet has the same cost as an SM+3 missile. But it's not just missiles—aircraft in sources like *Pyramid #3/53* are much more expensive than if you tried to replicate them with *Spaceships*. Does anyone know what's going on here?