A long while back I had been thinking about interstellar corporations. I had some back-and-forth discussions with Hans about (for example) how much business Oberlindes did, and how many ships it had before and after the Fifth Frontier War.
Both of those "statistics" could be abstracted into Fame. This is wondering aloud, but it seems very useful for first-order of approximation - which is all you usually need for this sort of thing.
Plus, by boiling it all down to a Fame metric, we also get a Target Number, handy for "dealing with" large corporations on a local level.
So instead of trying to figure out how many ships Oberlindes/Al Morai/etc has, then trying to figure out how much money Oberlindes/Al Morai/etc makes per <period of time on particular routes>, just map their interstellar reach to Fame.
Oberlindes is an interface/subsector line. I place its Fame as "Subsector" = 19.
Al Morai is a Sector Line, so Fame = 20.
Tukera has Imperial reach, so Fame = 24.
Akerut, a subsidiary of Tukera, has Sector scope, so Fame = 20.
One observation I make is that there's not much of a difference between Fame 19 and Fame 20 as a Target Number.
I could interpret that in one of two ways. One, Fame needs a value inserted between. Or two, there's not much operationally different between a subsector line and a sector line, even if there may be an order-of-magnitude difference in value or size.
Another nice thing about using Fame in this way is that I don't have to think about numbers of ships and megacredits earned. The single asset that bundles up a company's economic leverage is Fame, and the company can be compared to other companies with that value.
Both of those "statistics" could be abstracted into Fame. This is wondering aloud, but it seems very useful for first-order of approximation - which is all you usually need for this sort of thing.
Plus, by boiling it all down to a Fame metric, we also get a Target Number, handy for "dealing with" large corporations on a local level.
So instead of trying to figure out how many ships Oberlindes/Al Morai/etc has, then trying to figure out how much money Oberlindes/Al Morai/etc makes per <period of time on particular routes>, just map their interstellar reach to Fame.
Oberlindes is an interface/subsector line. I place its Fame as "Subsector" = 19.
Al Morai is a Sector Line, so Fame = 20.
Tukera has Imperial reach, so Fame = 24.
Akerut, a subsidiary of Tukera, has Sector scope, so Fame = 20.
One observation I make is that there's not much of a difference between Fame 19 and Fame 20 as a Target Number.
I could interpret that in one of two ways. One, Fame needs a value inserted between. Or two, there's not much operationally different between a subsector line and a sector line, even if there may be an order-of-magnitude difference in value or size.
Another nice thing about using Fame in this way is that I don't have to think about numbers of ships and megacredits earned. The single asset that bundles up a company's economic leverage is Fame, and the company can be compared to other companies with that value.
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