[Dragaera] SPAM-LOW: Re: Teleport Shipping

[Dusty Sayers]

Jon%20Lincicum wrote:
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> From: "Philip Hart" <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> 
> To: dragaera at lists.dragaera.info 
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:37:40 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
> Subject: Re: [Dragaera] Teleport Shipping 
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>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Ken Koester wrote: 
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>>> It would take something for teleportation to approach the efficiency of water 
>>> transport for bulk transport of goods. You'd have to get sorcerors who could 
>>> pitch tons of goods for coppers, I'm betting, before it would pay off on most 
>>> items. 
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>> Could you flesh out/improve/quantize my 30*5*10 Teckla-hours labor 
>> lower-bound guessestimate for the route in question? I don't even know 
>> how many tons we're talking about moving via barge, how long that would 
>> take to load from warehouse/unload to warehouse by hand per Teckla, etc. 
>> Do we know what a Teckla makes per hour (not working in e.g. the palace)? 
> Based on prices we've seen Vlad pay for meals, it seems unlikely to me that anyone could support themselves in the city on much less than 2 or 3 Orbs per day. (Which, due to the length of the Dragaeran month and the ratio of orbs to imperials means this is also 2 to 3 Imperials per month). I'm assuming an approximately 15-hour workday (which would leave 10 hours for sleep, and 5 more for "free time" each day). 
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> Given that what you're talking about is common manual (i.e. unskilled) labor, I'd guess toward the low end of this scale for such work. At this rate, you could probably get a gang of 9 Teckla working all day for 1 imperial total. 
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At least according to Vlad in Iorich, Easterners and Teckla working in 
the slaughterhouses work an 18-hour day.  Let us assume an hour off for 
lunch(es) to give 17 hours of actual work, to make the math easy and 
because everything else comes in seventeens.  From that we can speculate 
2-3 coppers an hour, if the goal is 2-3 orbs a day (and 2-3 Imperials a 
month).

I'm not sure if that's actually helpful to anyone making transportation 
calculations.

I am inclined (like many other posters) to view teleportation as being 
like air or road transportation for us-faster and possibly more 
secure--and Dragaeran water travel to be like ours, slow but cheap per 
pound.

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