On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Grimmund
<grimmund@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.
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