Recent content by aspqrz

Not on any consistent - or consistently believable in real world terms - way. Which is an inherent problem in the whole background, not just vehicle design. Phil

Is there a price reduction for less advanced versions at higher Tech Levels to represent economies of scale or more efficient manufacturing techniques or simply better technology applied to a not state of the art vehicle? That is, does the system allow you to represent the sort of price...

Indeed, one should :wink: Indeed. Let's look at the figure more closely, however. At the end of the war the Soviets had only 20% (+/-) of those 50,000 still in service. What happened to the other 40,000? They may not have been called "Ronsons" ... they should have been called "Gillettes"...

And I bought it anyway ... which says that either I am either ... a) completely clewless :shock: or b) a fan 8) or, possibly ... c) a fanboy :? or, worst of all ... d) a clewless fanboy :wink: Take your pick :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: 'Cause it certainly sucked bigtime...

And, for ghu's sake, get someone who actually has a clew about, oh, international politics, economics, military strategy, psychology, history and the like to write the "historical" background rather than the "hysterically stupidly unbelievable" effort presented in T:2013! :shock: Phil

I expect that a finished product has key information presented correctly ... not to be told "oh, make it up as you go along ..." I can do that myself, for free, I don't expect to be told to do it for a commercial product I have paid for. If it had been advertised as "random seeds on which to...

The Population figures are way off, pretty much all of them ... or seem to be ... Earth is described (page #22) ... "the world remains densely populated" ... but the population is listed as ... 11,792,600!!! Less than the population of Australia here and now!!! I presume it is meant to be...

"Doesn't seem so bad" = not a ringing endorsement :wink: :wink: :wink: I agree, it's not anywhere near perfect - unless you create a completely random sector that is newly discovered, and even then it has problems, they're just mostly not as obvious! :shock: For creating an important...

I think the specific point with Mongoose's Mercenary is that it quite ridiculous in parts. Ludicrous, in fact. The original CT Mercenary was believable and seemed accurate enough based on real world values, and, indeed, except for the TL issues (advanced weapons at possibly to high a TL), still...

Or very misleading. Or taken out of context. Regardless of source = wrong or misleading. Take your choice. I note you do not refute the figures I cite. Phil

Of course, the other thing is - in an 1100 year old Imperium every damn thing has already been invented. Anything below TL14-15 is obsolete or obsolescent ... so its TM/Patent/Copyright/IP expired. And on any planet that has reached at least the TL we have there's this thing called the...

Unfortunately, these arguments don't make sense in an 1100 year old Imperium whose explicit purpose for existing is to encourage and regularise trade. But what about Low Tech countries like Somalia, and most of the Third World, who are changing over to 100% imported Mobile Phone technology...

"Figures don't lie, but liars sure can figure." Now, before you fly off the handle, assuming I am referring to you with the above comment, I'm not ... I am, of course, referring to the way in which statisticians and economists twist figures (or conveniently cite only some of the figures ... the...

Or one could have the Tata Nano, produced with high tech materials and engineering for low tech/poor societies. The base model is around US$2500 at present, making it one of the, if not the, cheapest cars available. And. I believe, there are moves afoot to offer it for sale in the US ...

Well, no. We aren't wrong. Let's take a real world example to demolish yours. In 1980 I bought my first computer, an Apple IIe (64k RAM), an Amber Screen Monitor (12"?) with no real graphics capability, an exernal single sided 5 1/4" floppy disk drive (180k capacity) and a Dot Matrix...