-------------------------------------------- On Tue, 11/4/14, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [TML] Reflections on LBB2v2 versus HGv2 for drives To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 7:28 PM On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Grimmund <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: . . . unless you are planning to build enough ships to reduce the share of the architect's fee per ship to something manageable. But that's still a bad financial decisions. Does that still apply if you're a megacorp building the hulls in-house? I always assumed the standard design discount represented a megacorp pumping out pre-built cookie-cutter hulls and then calling on low-bid subcontractors to actually install the working bits of the ship. The corp could easily stockpile not-as-yet needed hulls (especially in an orbital yard), only fitting these out when the current market called for it. Also, a certain precentage of these hulls (particularly along the fringes) would be "re-manufactured" models; hulls of salvaged or repossessed standard designs, with the old working guts removed and replaced with "as new" components. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Probably find alot of the in vargr-land....
