From: kgnome@cs.concordia.ca (MATIS stephane)
Newsgroups: rec.games.board
Subject: Re: BTECH-updating problem...
Date: 28 Sep 92 13:55:23 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

From: elm4252@summa.tamu.edu (MOORE, ERIC LEE)


> We have a problem with updating the campaign that we were running.

	Like everybody :-)

> We started a campaign back in 2090.  The groups that were playing
> all started with 4 mechs and warriors written up in the original
> mechwarrior.  one of the groups, mine in particular.  stipulated
> that they always bought all the technical readouts that they could
> get their grubby little hands on.  After selling some mechs that 
> we had no room for, we started a technical school.  Plus, we spent
> much of our money on starting our very own factory.  We decided that
> the mech parts could not be so scarce that it could take years to
> find the part that was needed to repair your mech.  If it did, then
> mechs would destroy themselves just due to mechanical failures.
> The industry that i had set up was producing heavy infantry weapons.
> That factory was completed in 3010.  I had tried to get a Thunderbolt
> factory up and running to.  It was completed in 3027.  It produced
> a whopping 16 mechs a year.  Now they want to start up the same
> campaign but in the year 3055.  What do we do about the factory
> output?  i may get flamed for monty haulism here.  but, thats
> our campaign and not yours.

Ok, Short exerpt form Merc Handbook 2nd Edition.

	Factories :

	Factories are rated accroding to a Comstar technological survay
team by their level of automation and quality. Some factories are
surprisingly "low" on automation, but succeed by using inovative
management techniques. A rough rundown of factory quality is :

	0. Manual Labor Factory
	1. Small Inner Sphere Factory
	2. Medium Scale Inner Sphere Factory
	3. Small Automated Inner Sphere Factory
	4. Small Star League Factory, Standard Inner Sphere Factory
	5. Advanced Inner Sphere Factory (Defiance Ind.)
	6. Medium Scale Star League Factory, Standard Comstar Factory
	7. Small Scale Clan Factory
	8. Standard Star League Factory
	9. Standard Clan Factory
	10.Automated repair & refit Factory, Star League Experimental
		Division

Ok. Now using this, the formula is at home, but for your Thunderbolt(s)
here is my table (which I am currently re-viewing and that's why it's
with me). BTW, there is a formula ... not a rule of thumb.

TDR-5S	5,033,023$	3187	(shit ... wrong paper...)

Anyways ... I'll quote numebr for each factory up to 7 tommorrow (or
later today from home).

BTW, above is the custom price. Sticker price is 75% of that. Nobody in
his right mind pays sticker price. Custom is defined as production
that's under 6 /year and/or less then 5 years on the market and/or only
one company produces it.

Hope this helps ... with a little more info to be forthcoming.

					> Mok
> 
> a.k.a.  Mjr Kessel
        > CMDR 537th Heavy Company
        > (2nd Company on the horizon...<WHOA Salvage>..)
        > Mercs employed by Federats
> 
	> How can you expect to outwit a maniacal genius on an
	> empty tummy?   
					> -Eve
					 > Mann and Machine
> 
					   
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