How much is money worth in 3303?
Are ships really cheap? Or is everyone paying crazy money to ship goods and people around?
A ship like a Cobra (something the size of a jet plane and the volume of a large house, approximately) costs around 300k. That seems fairly reasonable given (presumably) space-age 3D printing and assembly methods, they can probably crank out something like a fully finished Coba in an hour for little or no labour. Missiles cost 1000 credits, which seems pretty cheap, bit again space-age 3D printing I can imagine that's only just above raw material costs or something. Fuel is so cheap I couldn't even tell you how much that costs, but since it's Hydrogen, the most common element in the universe then it makes sense it's cheap.
So I assumed originally that buying a Cobra in 3303 is like buying a Transit Van today. A really nice one will set you back around £23k or so, which in the UK is about a middle-manager annual salary, so it's a not-inconsiderable investment of personal money. An Anaconda is like buying a merchant ship, I can't be bothered to google enough to find prices but a quick search told me a small one might be around half a mill or so.
However, I've just been paid 1.5million to take 3 people 2 hyperspace jumps. If you do some quick napkin conversions that means (in today's money, if we use the transit van comparison), they just paid me around £100,000 to take them down the motorway for two junctions. That seems a bit crazy. Another mission someone paid me 330k to transport 3t of cargo to the adjacent system. So, today's money conversion they paid me £25,000 to transport three parcels to the next town over. These are fairly standard mission payouts, cargo runs somewhere between 100 and 500k is pretty normal.
From this I assume that ships are just really, really cheap. It's like paying for everything in Yen, 300k isn't actually much money in 3303.
Using this type of thinking then, can we assume that buying a Cobra is like buying a small family car? Like £3k or less?
I seem to remember reading in one of the novels (I think it was Premonition) that one character sold her family business to pay for pilot training and could only afford a Sidewinder at the end of it. Given this thinking, can we assume then that mass produced standard "stuff" in 3303 is dirt, dirt cheap (for the most part), but skills are very valuable? Maybe that's why there's so few pilots, maybe getting trained costs a billion credits?
Thoughts?
Are ships really cheap? Or is everyone paying crazy money to ship goods and people around?
A ship like a Cobra (something the size of a jet plane and the volume of a large house, approximately) costs around 300k. That seems fairly reasonable given (presumably) space-age 3D printing and assembly methods, they can probably crank out something like a fully finished Coba in an hour for little or no labour. Missiles cost 1000 credits, which seems pretty cheap, bit again space-age 3D printing I can imagine that's only just above raw material costs or something. Fuel is so cheap I couldn't even tell you how much that costs, but since it's Hydrogen, the most common element in the universe then it makes sense it's cheap.
So I assumed originally that buying a Cobra in 3303 is like buying a Transit Van today. A really nice one will set you back around £23k or so, which in the UK is about a middle-manager annual salary, so it's a not-inconsiderable investment of personal money. An Anaconda is like buying a merchant ship, I can't be bothered to google enough to find prices but a quick search told me a small one might be around half a mill or so.
However, I've just been paid 1.5million to take 3 people 2 hyperspace jumps. If you do some quick napkin conversions that means (in today's money, if we use the transit van comparison), they just paid me around £100,000 to take them down the motorway for two junctions. That seems a bit crazy. Another mission someone paid me 330k to transport 3t of cargo to the adjacent system. So, today's money conversion they paid me £25,000 to transport three parcels to the next town over. These are fairly standard mission payouts, cargo runs somewhere between 100 and 500k is pretty normal.
From this I assume that ships are just really, really cheap. It's like paying for everything in Yen, 300k isn't actually much money in 3303.
Using this type of thinking then, can we assume that buying a Cobra is like buying a small family car? Like £3k or less?
I seem to remember reading in one of the novels (I think it was Premonition) that one character sold her family business to pay for pilot training and could only afford a Sidewinder at the end of it. Given this thinking, can we assume then that mass produced standard "stuff" in 3303 is dirt, dirt cheap (for the most part), but skills are very valuable? Maybe that's why there's so few pilots, maybe getting trained costs a billion credits?
Thoughts?
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