Re: [FH] Dollars per credit

From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@quixnet.net>

> aebrain wrote (in addition to interesting stuff about making a
> computer in your own kitchen):
> 
> >4000 tonne frigate costs about $800 mill these days - 5 tonnes/
> mill
> >A size 100 ( 10,000t ) FT ship costs about 350 MCr - about
> 25-30 tonnes per
> >MCr. So we have 1 Cr is about the same as $25 in military
> purchasing power.
> 
> Oops--a 10,000t FT ship costs about 350_points_ , therefore
> 3500MCr.

OK, there's a missing order of magnitude. 1 Cr = $2.50

> On the other hand, if we use $1 = Cr 1.75, we wind up with
> 186,082 points worth of ships.  My initial feel is that that's
> rather high.

So call it 100,000 pts	(at $2.50  a Cr) for the World's Only
Superpower.
100 Super Dreads equivalent, for the equivalent of the NAC+NSL+FSE+ESU.

Sounds about right-ish.