I guess what I'm sort of getting at is that the amount of productivity one is going to get scales directly with manpower and effort put in. Maybe some of us should take a step back and think about what their character's focus is; put another way, there's a reason why this whole thing started at 'waved craft that were made by the normal means on Earth. Fundamentally, more or less everything has to start from some hardtech produced basis, and people need to put a little thought into where that basis comes from if they're talking about building big, impressive stuff from scratch. For some numbers, in WW2 a heavy bomber took on the order of 20 to 30 *thousand* man hours to complete the airframes alone; that's ignoring the engines and all the other worky bits, and it's not like they were pressurized; modern aircraft clones are going to take a lot more. People should think about where those man hours are going to come from; we have handwavium derived hypertech at our disposal obviously, but then you have the time to make *those* machines, and the machines to make those, etc.
I'm just trying to point out that it's kind of a subset of "be mindful of hogging all the cool" really.
I'm just trying to point out that it's kind of a subset of "be mindful of hogging all the cool" really.