I have a copy of LBB CT Book 2 Starships 1e 1977 7th printing that provides the following material that does not appear to have been kept in the CT Book 2 Starships 2e 1977/1981 6th printing that is part of my copy of FFE 001 Books 0-8 The Classic Books 2000 2nd printing book.
Page 9 "Starship Design: Most starships are constructed from standard plans and specifications which use timed-tested designs and combinations of features."
Page 9 "Construction/Construction Times: Ship construction requires a relatively long period of time based primarily on the hull size used. The rule section on hulls indicates the basic time required to construct a ship based on a certain size of hull (ranging from 10 to 36 months). Standard designs take about one month less than the stated time."
Page 10 "Hull: Construction time for any custom hull is 36 months, regardless of tonnage."
When LBB 1 - 3 2e came out I purchased a complete set and I compared with my 1e set. I may have missed the information in CT Book 2 Starships 2e on the build time so I went with the information provided by the first edition as being in months.
IIRC either CT Book 5 HG or TCS uses the construction cost to determine how many weeks are needed to construct a hull.
From: "Jeff Zeitlin" <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com>
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Subject: [TML] On Building Ships: Classic, Time to build?
Maybe I'm overlooking something, but I don't see a definitive
statement either way: when figuring the construction time for a ship,
the hull has a time listed in months (which I convert to weeks at
1:4), and the CT Drive Potential table has a single column at the far
right which is headed "build time". When working out the build time
for a ship, do I use the _longer_ of the two times (which the standard
designs listed appear to do), or should I really be _adding_ the times
(which would make the standard designs listed severely underestimated
for build time)? I'm analyzing some ship designs that are slightly
house-ruled; they're severely overpowered (larger M-Drive and PP than
the rules nominally allow; the ships in question are more or less
"tugboats" for a shipyard), and the build time for the M-Drive and PP
are actually longer than the time given for laying the hull.
(Cepheus Engine gives build time in weeks, and seems consistent with
CT after the 1:4 conversion, but CE only gives hull construction
times, nothing else has a construction time.)
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