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Bundle: 556
Archive-Message-Number: 6997
From: [-- REDACTED --]
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 06:44:00 BST
Subject: Re: Technology BOGGLE!!!

 
 In Archive-Message-Number 6993, [-- REDACTED --]
 (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.
 
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     Brent Woods
 
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