[Dragaera] Teleport Shipping

[Philip Hart]

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Ken Koester wrote:

> Philip Hart wrote:
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>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Ken Koester wrote:

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>> This isn't for wooden sailing ships in occasionally disputed water - cargo 
>> ships have massive efficiencies of scale, and powered loading.  I've been 
>> wondering about sorcerously-powered ships or boats, maybe that's relevant.
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> No, for wooden sailing ships, it's an infinite load per gallon of fuel, there 
> being no fuel to begin with.

The fuel is spars, sails, sailors lost overboard in storms, ships pulled 
to the bottom by krakens - all stuff burned in transport.


> As far back as you can trace transport records,  water transport rules, hands down.

Over teleportation?  What records should I be tracing?


> Not right now.  I'm not sure how you are making it, to begin with & don't 
> have enough time.  But if I think on it a few days I might.  How about 
> refreshing us with your base assumptions, for starters?  I'll see if I can 
> scare up some better estimate of barge capacities as well. . . .

I was just figuring that it's 3 days down plus 5 days up plus 1 day 
packing/loading/unloading times 5 Tecklas for some reasonable amount of 
goods (how much salt does a region use?).

How much does a Dragaeran weigh? 100 Kg? 50?  If the latter, and say any 
competent teleporter can move four Dragaerans masses but not more for 
some reason, that's 5 spells/ton.  It would be tiresome to teleport twenty 
tons like this.  Probably need more data to make progress.