Semi-standard LBB2-ish 300 Ton Trader

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This is definitely not a standard design, but it tries to come close.
Non-standard design features include drives interpolated to be between A & B drives, and a 300 ton semi-standard hull, sized and priced to fall between 200 ton and 400 ton hulls.

The Hull is based on an attempt to expand the standard hulls and linearize the discounts. The 100 Ton Hull and 400 ton hull have the same discounted cost as CT LBB2, and the rest fall more or less on a line passing thru these two points. The discount is roughly 7.27% per 100 tons below 1200, that gets you from 100% cost at 1200 Tons to 20% cost at 100 Tons. But it is rounded to make the MCr cost an integer. Each hull has room for a set of drives giving 1/1/1 and the rating 1 Drive table lists the cost for Drives appropriate to each hull.


A couple more things I think I could do is to add fuel for J-1/P-1, and a bridge. Then you could select a base hull for a 1/1/1 ship, and know how much hull remains and what the base cost is.

 

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If I integrate the Bridge, Fuel and Crew quarters I come up with something like this:

Any additional crew such as Stewards, or Gunners, and any passengers will need additional Quarters

 

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A correction, the unused space should be 149 Tons, not 165 Tons—I added the space for the G-Carrier instead of subtracting it.

 

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After thinking about it for a bit, I decided that the Standard Hulls should include a Comp-1, that way they are "fly-away", IE you can fly them off the lot.



I also built out one of the 200-ton hulls for comparison with the LBB2 Standard designs, The Scout and Merchant would have smaller drives than the LBB2 designs, so they wouldn't be as directly comparable. It ended up being 3 MCr cheaper than the LBB2 Free Trader. Well, 2.7 MCr with the discount.



The cost difference is 100% because of the difference in hull cost, which comes from the discount schedule I developed for the hulls. My big goal was to have a linear discount from the top of the range to the bottom, and to maintain something close to CT's Standard hull discount. CT's isn't linear, but rather blocky. I chose to go with 7.27% discount per 100 Dtons below 1200 Dtons because 1) It keeps the 80% discount for the 100 Dton hull and 2) it comes very close to the 60% discount for the 400 Dton hull. A less obtrusive option would be Alternate discount schedule 2, which makes the Discount for the 400 Dton hull 40% and the 100 Dton 70%, but keeps the CT discount for 200 & 600 tons.


As a 4th option you could go with a discount of 8.88% per 100 Dtons below 1000 Dtons, That would get you from the CT standard 80% discount at 100 Dtons to Full price at 1000 Dtons.