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In the setting Iām working on, they are building 36 space port cities around the equator on Earth that will have space towers in the middle of them. With an orbital ring planned once the space towers are built.
Iām currently planning each city to be built to house 1,000,000 people but Iām not sure if that is too big or not big enough. The cities in the ocean would be massive artificial islands weighing 100,000,000 tons with anchor pillars going to the ocean floor.
Depends on how big and fast your ships are, how much of your traffic is people and how much staff your ships need.
The other person is correct albeit for somewhat the wrong reasons. Ships have massive capacity, a lot (less so nowadays but still) of staff and are slow. Even a large plane is laughably small and blindingly fast by the standards of everything else so you just throw out everything in 20 minutes and you're good to go.
Conversely something big and ponderous is gonna take a while to unload and people are going to look for entertainment in the meantime.
So I'd recommend you start with your ships and work backwards from there.
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