Talk:United States of America/@comment-24787182-20160906190519

Marc, the James A Lovell class came WAY before the Mercury class was commissioned, almost a year to be exact as it was commissioned in November 2014. So DD-1 is the James A. Lovell, not the Mercury.

Also, can you please not number spam ships (specifically the Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter classes)? The US doesn't have an infinite supply of resources to build say 250 of a 800+ meter ship. Thats why mine range from 50 to 70 ships per class. You kinda have to think economically when deciding how many ships in a class based on size.

For example, lets take the Lovell class. They're 475 meters long with 72 ships making up the class. The size of the ship makes it more cost-effective, using fewer resources to build a single unit, resulting in the class having 72 units.

Now take the Kerberos class. They're 1600+ meters long and clearly more expensive to build. Thus, there are fewer ships as realistically the Navy would only afford to buy a small amount of them (say, 30 units as thats how many ships there are in the class).

So unless the US owns either a celestial body or an asteroid belt rich in resources you have to think about how much it would cost for American-harvested resources than importing say Israeli or Ceresian-mined resources.