how much would it cost to build rapture?

[ssgt splatter]

I couldn't tell you.
I think the money would be better spent building a city on the moon though.

Yeah, at least there you wouldn't have to worry about 500,000 PSI pushing down on you 24/7 from all directions.

 

[Joshimodo]

Quick research shows a nuclear sub costs about 2.5 billion USD. That is the nearest equivalent I can think.

was the billion a typo or do they really cost that much?

Correct, actually. Jets and ships cost in the millions, high-end nuclear submarines cost between 1-8 billion. Long lifespan though.



I'd estimate about 200 billion+. It's not THAT big of a city in comparison with some of the megacities we have in the world, but it's still vast, and of course, underwater.

Still, a small price to pay for such a society. Well, before the whole psychotic murderous rampages induced by genetic chicanery, that is.

 

[Sir Bob]

All of you don't considder that it can also be built on land in modules, and then those would be sunk to the bottom, this reduces the costs of shipping and labour. Also, no need to build it a million miles down, you can also pick a bit where the water is somewhat more shallow

I'd say you can build a small town for the price of just several billion dollars

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Too much money that world today doesn't have.

 

[Sir Bob]

Too much money that world today doesn't have.

It solves the issues some countries have with unemployment Give those out of a job a welding torch and a bit of steel.. You'll have a city in no time!

 

[Altorin]

Now, the biggest problem involved in building a city like Rapture wouldn't be material costs, but mainly the construction of the huge undersea dome it all resides in. Not to mention the fact that Andrew Ryan saw fit to build it all atop an active undersea volcano, which would have to be managed to avoid overpressure etc.

Manage a volcano? YOU CAN NO SOONER LEASH THE SUN..

Seriously, who thought that was a good idea.. Rapture is probably the DUMBEST idea made by a video game character. It's basically putting a Biosphere underwater... If you know anything at all about Biospheres, you'll know that they are hard as fuck to manage. It's the ultimate biological balancing act, and that's when it's done above ground, without thousands of tons of pressure pushing down on the sides and salty icy water pouring into isolated cracks in the system.

When Andrew Ryan came up with the idea for Rapture, I am SURE that he had forgotten to take his medication.

He had made trillions of dollars in the outside world, and then when various people wanted a cut of it, like for taxes, he basically said "Fuck you, I'm going under the ocean." And people followed this man. WHY?

And then he attempted to create a system where people go down there, work, and recieve a profit for their work. Where does this money come from? Andrew Ryan despises the smuggling trade, but throws lavish parties using what I can only assume is smuggled alcohol because he's created a closed society with none of the amenities for creating it. And for that matter, the chips and snacks Jack finds in Rapture, where do they come from? Does Rapture have a booming snackfood industry inside? or do they come from outside? Are the dollars american dollars? Legal tender in the US? Yes? Why? They're basically creating a sovereign state underwater, so No? Can they Print it? Is Andrew Ryan in charge of that?

It just seems to me like Rapture was doomed to failure from the start because the very idea of it is fundamentally flawed in so many ways it's laughable. The ideas of putting the notion of free trade inside a bubble is about the most absurd thing I can think of. And someone so worried about the "sweat of his brow" having enough to build, and at least for a short while maintain Rapture really speaks to Andrew Ryan's arrogance and stupidity.

That being said, great game, I enjoyed playing through Rapture, but when you sit down to think about it, Bioshock basically took place in a fallen house of cards.

As for what it cost, trillions and trillions of dollars.

 

[KarumaK]

The dreams of a million idealists and all their souls as well.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

Well we have to have reinforced-non rusting metal, a way of getting air down there, contact with the outside world for supplies, a biblical amount of builders.

Yeah we're talking about a billion dollars. Give or take a million.

Calumon: I wonder how much Guilmon Bread I can get for that money! One time, I found some Yen, and I bought so much bread I nearly threw up! ^^ Best day ever!

 

[jubosu]

We are men.
We Build things.
We do not need a reason.
When people knock them down.
We build more things only better and taller.

Therefore money is no object when building something pro.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Free.

You take a breath, go underwater, repeat until city built.

 

[UntrodTripod]

I imagine that in building it you would have to invent new technology to make it safer and more affordable. Just a thought, it probably would end up being build on an offshore platform and lowered into place.

 

[Altorin]

Whoever built Rapture was filthy rich.

Andrew Ryan, the man must have had trillions, possibly quadrillions of dollars in todays money but was too cheap to pay for the tax experts he would have needed to avoid paying tax on any of it like any normal rich person. Instead he built an underwater city and ranted about how the government was ruining his life with taxes. Bloody objectivists.

that basically sums up my giant post in one fell swoop.

What a dick.

"I made trillions off my own sweat! Or rather other people's sweat, because I'm clearly a thinker, rather then a builder, or farmer.. my brow is relatively sweat free. What, you want some to build roads so that all of my sweaty sweaty workers can go to work? FUCK YOU I'M GOING UNDER THE SEA!"

 

[Kramcake2516]

A man builds, only a parasite counts the cost.

HAHA spoken like the man himself exsactly what this says it would cost alot but with old ryans thinking nothing is too much

 

[orangebandguy]

I couldn't tell you.
I think the money would be better spent building a city on the moon though.

So we can then go on to conquer Mars? Sounds like a plan.

But the moon would probably declare itself an independant state or something, with it's own 'moon laws' or 'moon rights'.

 

[Composer]

A man builds, only a parasite counts the cost.

=D u sir gain kudos of the highest caliber

 

[Gabanuka]

Is it worth it? If one person had that much cash they wouldn't make a under water city, unless they were a Bond villan or something.

 

[TheScarecrow]

17 fuckloads.

 

[Sir Bob]

How about build a rapture-like city on dry land, and drive in circles around it untill global warming kicks in and the earth floods

 

[SuccessAndBiscuts]

We are men.
We Build things.
We do not need a reason.
When people knock them down.
We build more things only better and taller.

Therefore money is no object when building something pro.

Is it just me or were you paraphrasing boondock saints 2 there?

On topic: Its not rapture but we might be heading that way, scary thought.

Spoiler

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-03/concept-water-scraper-brings-monumental-architecture-open-sea

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Easy.

Rapture is not a construction.
Rapture is a dream, an idea...
And ideas are invincible.

...and cheap, too.