Re: Technology BOGGLE!!!
In reply to #6993 Technology BOGGLE!!! by Lionheart \|/
In Archive-Message-Number 6993, [email removed] (Matt Johnston) writes: >>The new background severely cripples the technology that I have >>become accustomed to. > >The solution here is then not to dwell on being Star Vikings from ye >Olde Mudball worshipping a semi-sentient Air/raft but to dwell on >being Regency marines...or High tech dudes. I'm afraid that you've missed my central point. You see, I want the high technology to be *everywhere*. To be *consistent*. I want my environment to be without low-tech places. Back when I started playing Traveller (14 years ago--where's my cane?), I created my own region of space outside the Imperium where the absolute lowest tech level was 13, and ranged as high as an extrapolated 17. The average was right about 15. My main gripe with the new setting is that the *average* tech level is far too low, and there are places that have no decent technology at all. It's not that there are too many low-tech worlds, it's that they exist at all. There should be *no* low technology at all. That's why I may use the new rules system (with the appropriate fixes to improve the technology), but the new background is of less than zero use to me. I won't have Star Vikings, or RCES, or the Regency, for that matter, because in my game, the Third Imperium never fell. Strephon is still alive and well and on the Iridium Throne, there was no Rebellion (Dulinor stayed home and was happy with what he had, dammit), and no Virus. - -- Brent Woods INTERNET: [email removed] (preferred) and [email removed] USNAIL: [address removed] MABELL: +1 [phone removed]