I tried the best I could.
So, it's up to 20 weeks for an order to go through.
I would estimate double the shipping costs, plus manufacturer agent
fees, broker fees, import/export taxes, spread over the total
shipment, added to the cost per unit.
Call it maybe 5-10%.

Actually, this is a great point in favor of the model where low tech
worlds provide materials to the high tech ones, in exchange for
finished goods. THis leads to a steady state of low-tech worlds not
building up their industrial infrastructure because it's easier to
just ship the desired items in.

On 2/12/18, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 04:16:58PM -0800, Cian Witherspoon wrote:
>> I'm about to get real snarky here:
>
> I can tell.
>
>
>> Way to not get the point of the model.
>
> I got it, but disagreed that your analogy was useful.  Adding
> completely arbitrary distance ratios to it doesn't help at all.
>
> If you're going to try to quantify it, use the fact that in your
> analogy, New York stands for some system that doesn't manufacture the
> high-tech goods.  Beijing stands for a star system that does
> manufacture the goods.  Almost all systems in the OTU have TL C+
> systems of decent population within at most ten jumps, so making a
> 56-jump analogy is ridiculous, bordering on disingenuous.
>
>
> - Tim
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