Arcos Vandymion
The Advent of Faith Standing United.
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Posted - 2013.10.29 13:20:00 -
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Roga Dracor wrote:I used cities like New York and Tokyo as references. How many battleships are docked at Jita? How many crew does each of them have? several million just in crews at Jita every day.
These are major cities in space, granted some may have only several hundred thousand, on smaller stations. But, major stations support millions.
As to nul, how many titans do the big nul alliances sport? Carriers? Dreads? Battleships? Now what kind of infrastructure, ignoring crews, would be required, in boots on the ground, to maintain your ships, stations and sov? New Eden is overpopulated, and not by a small margin.
Take a city like Detroit, just beause you can't feed, house and employ the people, do you think they are just going to stop living there? Then stick them in a tin can, where they require the services of a space ship, just to leave. Many people move into situations looking to better their lives, when that doesn't pan out, they are still there.. Ever seen a carrier undock from a low sec station?
Babylon 5, which cannot support cruisers docking, fictionally supports 250 thousand, now take that little space station and sit it next to Jita 4-4.... Compare the sizes..So, how many died when the Broker rammed a Nix into a station?
Further, zoom out from a station. Those spires are buildings, high rise apartments, world trade centers, corporate office buildings, parks, etc.. Real cities in space..
If you take 4-4 as an estimate for size you might also want to figure out how much space would be needed to land all those ships - the result should be close to "a whole moons surface". If I think of galactic empires I like to referr to the hugely inaccurate fluff-cosmos by GW. A single Hiveworld may house tens of billions of people - but the amount of ressources wasted, the ecological footprint of all the citizens, the logistics and so on and so forth make it not really sensible (planetary destruction, commotion, unrest, riots, epidemics). Using a world to its singular maximum keeps the logistics down, makes lives more amiable for everyone and would keep things more in check. This doesn't account for migration but the average New Edian citizen is not very likely to acquire a ticket of planet. Thus the overall population isn't going to be in the numbers of thousands of trillions. I doubt it is even somewhere close to a few hundred trillion. |