User blog:SupcommMonroee/Suppy Super Post 7 - Ratios and Numbers! Space Navy Numbers!

So Kray and I did a bunch of calculations and ratios. Now, we admit to using the US Navy as our basis, but we've established a basic formula for identifying fleet size.

Fleet Size
First is our population to ship ratio. For every one named naval vessel, we suggest 1,115,979 people. Actually, it's in reverse. For every 1,115,979 people, add one ship. Now you have your base number. Militarization is the next factor.

Now look at the percentage of military personnel to civilians there are. In the USA, 0.7% of the population is in the reserves or is active duty. The EIT has a population of 950 trillion with around 200 trillion military. That's 23% of the population. 23% divided by 0.7% is roughly 33. So that means we multiply our new base number of ships by 33. That is your rough final number.

Crew
Crew is simple. Just start with your smallest line class, which should be the corvette, and identify its physical size and crew strength. Visit the EIT military page if you want a good place to start for sizes and crews. From there, just scale up each level of ship class (frigate, destroyer, etc.) until you have all your ships.

Ratios
Now that you have your base number of ships, which is 28,091,926,434 for the EIT, you need to decide how many belong to each set of classes. It's not just a simple, flat 50% corvettes, 25% frigates, etcetera etcetera. Corvettes specifically don't have enormous use outside of large fleets since they're just fleet screens. I'll do my percentages per class here for the EIT (subject to change without warning)

Corvettes - 18%

Gunboats - 21%

Frigates - 20%

Destroyers - 17%

Cruisers - 15%

Battleships - 6%

Carriers - 4%