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On Wed, 3/30/16, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Relic tech and Scarcity-Driven Imperium (was: Salvage Operations (and Submarines))
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 10:40 AM

 > On
 Mar 29, 2016, at 4:50 PM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net>
 wrote:
 >
 > On Tue,
 Mar 29, 2016 at 06:48:22PM +0000, Phil Pugliese (via tml
 list) wrote:
 >> I've seen
 'official' stats for up to 10,000DT's & have
 heard of
 >> others up to
 20,000DT's.
 >>
 >> Would that be enough to run the CT
 3I?
 >
 > Yes,
 certainly.  Economies of scale in the construction and
 operation
 > rules in most versions start
 being fairly negligible around the 3k-10k
 > dton range.  You would just need more of
 them to support the trade
 > volumes than
 you would of 100k dton ships, at about the same total
 > cost.

 Yet
 this is not reflected in real-world experience: the trend
 has been to ever-larger container ships rather than more of
 them.

 Why?

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'Cuz the OTU (at least until DGP/MT came along) is based upon the 17th/18th century & not on the post-containerization 20th?

Works for me!  ;-)
Which is only to be expected since I prefer CT. Someone who prefers MT is bound to differ, of course.

p.s. someone posted a very treatise to the list over 20 (pre-TNE) years ago detailing the fundamental changes in a lot of the basics that occurred when MT appeared. My impression was that the author  was making the case that the CT 3I & the MT 3I were actually two different 'critters' &, rather than attempting to reconcile them, it was easier/better to just pick one or the other & go with that.

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