Coyote wrote:OK, so help me out here: I have permission to build the railroad along the coast, and that'll be 313 kilometers of railway for me.
How much is that in IBPs? Is it 1 IBP = 1 km? How long does it take to build such a project? Is it like a year for every 100km or something? It'll take me about 3 years to build it, if I am allowed to round down the 13 km, which sounds about right.
I dunno, I don't think 10kms of track is worth 10,000 tons of ship, though I suppose manpower costs should be figured in. Maybe go for 1 IBP per 10 kms with a 2 or 3 year period until completion.
And once I'm done, what does that do for my Infrastructure score? How many hundreds of km of railway/road/telegraph/telephone/wireless/television/plumbing/electricity do I need to improve my Infrastructure? Are we going to just standardize them all and say it is 1 IBP=1km of wire/road/transmission range/pipe/etc?
I have no idea, so I'm telling people that if they want, they can invest some IBPs into it and I'll let them claim a boost in 2-3 years instead of 5+.
Also, I've landed a contract for major industrial machine parts work for the Sultan. How many tons of production do I need to account for before I can add something to my Economy? And if the Germans do build a base in Tel-Aviv, how much FDI is needed before I can add that to my Econ?
Let me know when you think you've done enough to get the boost and I'll give it to you. Really, I don't want to number-crunch this too much, takes away from RP.
I'm also wondering if I need to have a 2-tiered OOB. My coastline should have an Infrastructure about on par with most mid-sized European towns/cities, but the interior is still using hand-pump water, outhouses, and oil lamps in many places.
As in an OrBat reflecting your interior would be more sparsely settled and defended? Your choice. You could just have most of your troops along the coast.
I also think that the ruleset might need to be updated for Navy limits. As it stands, based purely off of Ecomics and Industry, the Yishuv can support up to 150,000 tons of Naval strength. But I have a population base of 0, with less than half a million people, many of whom are illiterate peasants. I have 4 ships, 2 cruisers and 2 torpedo boats, and together they come to just over 27,000 tons. It seems odd that I could, in theory, float a major squadron since there are no limits on population.
Frankly the game was never designed with something like the Yishuv in mind. Also your fleet could not have anything heavier than a cruiser as capital ship construction is limited to 3 NF and above. Well, I grant you could try to buy a capital ship, but I think you're too honest an RPer for that.
With a population base of 0, maybe the upper limit should be about 50,000 tons max.
You are the only Pop 0 in the game. A bit of a moot point then eh?
I also wonder if we should have a scale for education/literacy to spend IBPs on, since there needs to be a minimum standard for education otherwise a lot of big projects can't be supported by illiterate peasants.
Again, too much number-crunch.
I really don't want to be joining Government Budget SImulator 2.0.
