On Thu, 19 Dec 2013, Onno Meyer wrote:
Johannes replied to me:
50 humans seem a lot. Getting them to actually work together would be a
bit of a challange. Not motivating them, thats what whips are for, but to
coordinate them.
I would have guessed exactly the opposite. The more people you have
on the same rope, the easier it is for each individual to slack off.
The coordination should be less of a problem if you have fifty guys
doing the same task in close proximity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringelmann_effect
I did not mean, that motivating many workers is easier then motivating
few, but that motivating many workers is easy, compared to coordinating
many workers. Which means you have a hard time to get the full ST of all,
even if you motivate them well.
Depending on how the rigging is supposed to actually look like, you
propably encounter problems, that you don't have with fewer draft animals.
On the other hand, humans will be able to understand complicated
commands and to see problems on their own. According to Vehicles
Expansion 2, a bipedal harness has the same efficiency as the
best animal harness.
I meant rigging many draft animals (be they humans or other) will propably
lead to additional problems with harnesses, that you don't have if you rig
only few of the same type.
In short i suppose at some point you get less additional value from each
new draft animal you add, and i suspect 50 draft animals is propably
beyond the point, where adding new ones is helpfull at all..
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