Questions about the rules

[P3D]

When did ship cost go up?

What ship cost?

[Earl822]

the SS cost multiplier went up from 6 to 10, which to put it bluntly has blown up my budget completely

[Borys]

Ahoj!
Oh, I've been using x10 since the begining ...
Borys

[Carthaginian]

Ahoj!
Oh, I've been using x10 since the begining ...
Borys

As have I.
I thought it was like that since we started here.

[Earl822]

it was 6 at the point when I wrote my reports for 1906-1909, admittedly that was some time ago, but I still think that 6 was a more reasonable multiplier as for most of us a 12500ton cruiser is now equivalent to about one sixth of the military budget.

I can work with 10, but I will now be about a half behind as it will take time to completely rewrite the budget.

[P3D]

Thread split.

The multiplier 6 was what I got from cost comparisons. It was increased to 10 because I felt ship cost was marginal in the budget - and it's much easier to multiply by 10 than 6.

[Ithekro]

I don't even remember a cost multiplier of 6.  By the time I figured stuff out it was 10.

[Earl822]

thats where a calculator comes in, and an AC, w at $7.4 (with a multiplier of 6) then comes in at $11.6 (with a multiplier of 10) which is a massive increase on the scale of our budgets. Assuming each $1, was $1Million RL dollars, in 1905 that is..... (couldn't find a resource to give me the 1905 exhange rate) but using the rough exchange rate of today ($2=£1) that is £5.8 Million, almost as much as HMS Hood cost.

I used what I remembered, assuming something like that wouldn't have been changed as it would mess so much up, but give me a week, and all new reports will be working from the right scale.

[Ithekro]

Until after the Great War a pound sterling would get you $4.866 US.

Since we are multiplying the "x" pounds by 10 to get the N-verse $ amount, the actual price is still "x" pounds sterling.

Remember, none of use are Great Britian. France probably couldn't afford the Royal navy.  None of us can afford to build the Royal Navy.  Rohan would have trouble building the German or American Navies from this time period (of course I'm building my ships a little large in the cruiser department), and is more or less building half to three-quarters of what the Germans were able to build historically...which is better than what I was doing earlier I might add.  At least I can afford to lay down two heavy ships a year now where as before I was barely getting one a year if that.  We'll see if I can afford to build them (actual materials produced) on time.  But I can't afford to follow the American practice exactly (as my two ships per year is actualy three ships one year, one the next year, half battleships, half battlecruisers).

[P3D]

There's some excacge rate calculations, let me dig them up.