Topic: Jumpship Numbers (Read 5072 times)

Blacknova · « **Reply #30 on:** January 21, 2012, 05:09:41 PM »

I'd expect that there were more DS than JS, mainly due to excess for inter-system work. Say an average of 3.5 collars per JumpShip, gives 450 000 on my numbers, + a few extra intersystem ships and you start to approch 500 000.

lrose · « **Reply #31 on:** January 21, 2012, 08:38:00 PM »

For what it's worth (which isn't too much) Dropships & Jumpships, which gave us the number of 2000 jumpships in the IS, gives us an estimate of 25,000 dropships- or roughly 12.5 dropships for every jumpship. This number doesn't seem too unreasonable as there would a lot of dropships that don't or rarely leave their home system (either intrasystem transports or military dropships used for system defense.)