My starports are built using a basic modular system. I'm looking for ideas. I have browsed the "Starports 101" forum and found it generally edifying.
I'm not satisfied with the codes I use to describe modules. Suggestions are welcome.
Each module is 'rated' based on whether or not it's mandatory for certain types of starports. It's also got flags denoting what price modifications are needed due to environmental considerations. There are also price mods for volume in many cases.
Modules rated by volume-capacity have a size noted after the module code. For example, D/1000 is a 1000 ton-capacity drydock, and F/100k is a 100,000 ton-capacity fuel depot.
In the case of modules rated by capacity ("ships per week"), or modules representing an aggregate unit, such as a parkbay which has 11 actual bays (which also is essentially "ships per week"), the multiple is given after the capacity. For example:
Prices are always given in terms of construction in situ with the infrastructure at hand; prices are modified further, based on transport.
For example, landing facilities are generally of a technologically-appropriate material, are usually dirt cheap (if supporting infrastructure exists), and are required for all starports. For a hunk of bedrock, "infrastructure" might simply mean "a can of special spray paint costing Cr100". But if you're building a non-trivial starport, the landing facilities are usually free.
Modules such as parking facilities may be enclosed, environmentally managed (env), sealed with internal power and environment (sealed), or pressurized and reinforced for vacuum (Va). They may also come with gravitics (grav), and if required in orbit or off-orbit, may also incur shipping charges.
Delivery to anywhere else in the system increases cost by a factor of twenty.
Delivery to a different system increases cost by a factor of twenty (i.e. past the 100D limit) then an additional Cr1000 per ton shipped.
That's my view in a nutshell.
I'm not satisfied with the codes I use to describe modules. Suggestions are welcome.
Each module is 'rated' based on whether or not it's mandatory for certain types of starports. It's also got flags denoting what price modifications are needed due to environmental considerations. There are also price mods for volume in many cases.
Modules rated by volume-capacity have a size noted after the module code. For example, D/1000 is a 1000 ton-capacity drydock, and F/100k is a 100,000 ton-capacity fuel depot.
In the case of modules rated by capacity ("ships per week"), or modules representing an aggregate unit, such as a parkbay which has 11 actual bays (which also is essentially "ships per week"), the multiple is given after the capacity. For example:
Represents a parkbay which contains 11 bays large enough to hold a 1000 ton vessel each.
Prices are always given in terms of construction in situ with the infrastructure at hand; prices are modified further, based on transport.
For example, landing facilities are generally of a technologically-appropriate material, are usually dirt cheap (if supporting infrastructure exists), and are required for all starports. For a hunk of bedrock, "infrastructure" might simply mean "a can of special spray paint costing Cr100". But if you're building a non-trivial starport, the landing facilities are usually free.
Likewise, beacons are generally one-size-fits all. They program one for you, you pay for it, stick it somewhere, and you're done. More traffic may dictate more beacons, but generally a beacon is just a transponder in a small, sealed container. The only price modifier here might be in delivering a beacon to orbit, if needed. But if you're building a non-trivial starport, beacons are thrown in for free.
On the other hand, parking facilities range from an allocated hunk of landing area to a fully-fledged, maglev-connected parkbay complex.
Modules such as parking facilities may be enclosed, environmentally managed (env), sealed with internal power and environment (sealed), or pressurized and reinforced for vacuum (Va). They may also come with gravitics (grav), and if required in orbit or off-orbit, may also incur shipping charges.
Next, things like fuel depots, refineries, transportation, defense, and drydocks may not require environmental niceties, but they do have scale price modifiers. A 1mt fuel tank may cost ten times a 100kt fuel tank. I assume, for simplicity's sake, that engineering requirements and economies of scale offset one another evenly.
Finally come things like warehouses, traffic control, concourses, and habitats, which require both volume price mods and environmental price mods. Habitats and concourses have the additional element of being empty hulls which one fills with stuff -- life support, entertainment, commercial, public service, administration, what-have-you.
Delivery to orbit increases cost by a factor of ten.
Delivery to anywhere else in the system increases cost by a factor of twenty.
Delivery to a different system increases cost by a factor of twenty (i.e. past the 100D limit) then an additional Cr1000 per ton shipped.
That's my view in a nutshell.
