Werden Schiffe mit der Zeit unprofitabel?

[Bearsie]

I suggested several items, like:

Add a few "Eurobulker" ships,
Advertisement, trips from Europe to Australia for higher profits
reason being that shorter trips eat up too many days in the harbor.
zootier suggested adding a container ship like the Encounterbay.
it was suggested to basically run at full speed except for trips ending at x.1 or so days to throttle that down to xx.0
Since for the most part the savings in fuel are eaten up by the loss of time and drive down the average result per day.
furthermore to pay attention to load times of the particular ship
and avoid slow loaders like the "Patroclus" (6 days versus most are 2 days)
In this connection it was pointed out by zootier that 6 days is a realistic value for an old break bulk freighter and its one of the reason that container ships are now so prevalent.
This was countered by me that while even my small coasters had loads that took almost a week to load they also had loads that only took a few hours and fueling sometimes only an hour.
But in the game this value is fixed, which in turn makes a 6 day turn around unrealistic and a money loser...
In that connection it was also discussed that you will spend considerably more time in harbor then the 2 days load/unload (or whaterver value is assigned to your chosen ship) indicate, since the computer always acts at 24:00 hours
It says: you have arrived (2400) next day: enter(2400)next day: ready to load(2400)next day: ready to leave(2400) next day: leave (2400)
so when adding a lot of short runs or secondary freights you may well be wasting a lot of time
Also the question of GT /GRT (BRT in german) versus TDW/DWT was touched upon. GT are strictly a volume measurement for taxing/manning/fee purposes only tdw are weight and strictly speaking even then not all payload, since tdw includes fuel/coffee/beer/ supplies and what not.
I am sure I forgot something but that is about the substance of the convo sofar.
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Frohe Reise, Bearsie.

[Rico Graube]

so, i have played more, and the only problem was, that i was in a low price time. So i didn't get much money if i charter my ships. But now i get much money because the low Price time is over, and so my profit is now good.

thx for the good tips

[Bearsie]

Macht immer Spass Strategie zu diskutieren
Wenn Du zuviel Geld verdienst kannste ja Kümo's kaufen.

Always fun to discuss strategy
When you make too much money, you can always buy Coaster's
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Frohe Reise, Bearsie.

[Rico Graube]

hi, yes i make much of Money, so i think about new Ships. I think i will try to buy Container Ships ( what are Kümo's or Coaster's? ). But they are very expensiv, so i have to play a time, to buy me that Ships.


Bor seit über 10 Jahren mal wieder was auf englisch schreiben, das ist echt anstrengend

[Zootier]

[Rico Graube]

na bloß gut, das es nicht nur mir so geht

[Nerby]

Bearsie,

Thank you very much. Really appreciated,

Nerby

[niknekman]

[Rico Graube]

Ahh, big big thx, now i know kümo and coasters. I come from the Erzgebirge, so i dont know something about ships, sorry for that,but i have very much fun to play this game.

[Bearsie]

Kümo / Küstenmotorschiff, die Schiffe die weltweit den Kistenschiffen den rang ablaufen
Können auch Häfen im Erzgebirge anlaufen zum laden von Weihnachtsbaumkugeln

Coasters: small ships that beat the socks off the big boxships worldwide.
and quite capable to enter harbors in the Iron Mountains to haul away xmas ornaments.
Du kannst ein paar auf meiner website finden.
You can find quite a few of them on my website.

http://mysite.verizon.net/ress3y0n
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Frohe Reise, Bearsie.

[mooringman]

hi bearsie,one question:is a 135m long container vessel (feedership) built by sietas still a coaster?some days ago i read about a 157m long containerfeeder in the baltic.in my opinion all vessels over 100m long are no coasters anymore,the modern coasters have already 4500 tdw.brgds mooringman

[Bearsie]