Guide to ship building

[Praxian]

I've been working on my own little personal project like this for a while now. When trying to gauge the stats and prices of various ships in the official guides, and some of the translations, just ran into a few small errors, and was looking to see if Gry or someone else had some ideas on how to work the prices out so they're "As close as they should be" for players who will want to use the setup I make.

One of the really big snags I keep running into is "Engine Pricing" and more importantly, in this case, "Space Movement".

In this case, the example I keep running into (that throws my numbers wacky usually), is ships with moves over 12 (I've got a couple of figures for prices for moves over 12, but the frustrating thing comes when the ships themselves are worth less than the space move engine - lol).

Ex: The space move of 12 is priced @ 500,000 creds. However ships like the Jedi Interceptor and the like are valued @ 140,000 (even some of the other ships - mainly combat vessels - are valued @ things like the 100k - 200k range). Should I ignore those - and use my figures for engine prices and state to my players something like "Unless you work for the planets govt. you're not gonna get that kind of price."?

Anyways - I am trying to keep the costs as close to what the books price as possible, just make something to where the players can "make their own vanilla ships" or contract a ship-yard to make it - or something.

I think I answered what I'll likely do - which is the govt. discount for ships like that, but wanted some feedback from the community.

[jmanski]

Think of it this way: if you buy a car it is $20,000, but if you buy a car piece by piece it would cost a lot more (likely 3x or more).
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[ZzaphodD]

[Praxian]

True, they're almost non-existent, but they're there a bit.

Thus, why I'm asking for some opinions.

As it pertains to Speed though, sports cars cost more (a lot more) than say my truck. The price difference between a Lamborghini and my GMC Jimmy is all about speed, engine power, and style of build.

Some things can be done differently I suppose, but the bigger function I'm trying to get is some kind of consistency to where I'll use it often and other players will use it.

[jmanski]

[ZzaphodD]

[jmanski]

Yeah, Space 12 for a freighter is too much.
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[Praxian]

[Krapou]

Hi ! (back from the dead !)

If you're still looking around fo pricing correctly the engines, you could look there :
http://krapz.free.fr/data/Starships_Pricing.pdf

With this system, I get a pricing of about 160k for the Jedi interceptor (without the booster ring).
On this price, about 45k is for the engines only.

My take on the engines pricing :
- the faster the ship, the higher the price (obviously)
- the bigger the ship, the higher the price: achieving space 12 on a 5m long fighter is far less expensive than on a 50m freighter !


ship pricing (details) :

size 5m : 1CP
consummables 2days + life support : 1CP
space 12 : 20CP
manoeuvrability 4D+2 : 25CP
hull 2D (+1 base) : 4CP
shields 2D : 4CP
weapon mounts 14 : 12CP (cost x2 due to small size)
weapons : + 8000 cred
total : 67CP (= 148k) + 8k = 156k
engines pricing = 156*20/67 = 46k
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[Praxian]

[ifurin]

in the D6 ships book preparing a ship for sublight speeds costs 2,500 credits, this counts as a move of 0. after that it costs 1000 credits for every space unit the ship can move. it's probably not what you're looking for but i hope it helps.

[Anakin]