2300AD

[kafka]

Found a nice blog for you Colin...did not check however, if you wrote it...
http://www.futuretimeline.net/index.htm

I like the idea of a limited war followed by asteriod strike. Back in the day that I played 2300AD, I used the term Twilight Years to denote an era where ecological, military, political crises that dominate our current years of global turbulence before a new hegemon emerge. Kept it vague but essentially followed a path in which the US simply expired under its own weight and the years of chaos led to a modern Dark Age.

 

[Nathan Brazil]

For economics in 2300, didn't the Earth/Cybertech book use some relative economic measure for the described countires called Ruddel Units? They definition was something like "1,000,000 educated able bodied individuals, working in a productive industry". I just cant recall it at the momement. France had the highest at like 50, the US only had a 13.

IIRC Spain had tantalum, but could not make use of it, so they sold it or mining rights, enjoyed the profits and slid back into economic doldrums.

Finally on the DNA part, I do not recall that there were bizarro modifications to humans. Just the "here's a treament, increase X stat by N". The strangest was the inhabitants of King. Immigrants had to undergo a treatment (nanotech?) to be strong enough to survive the 2+G of the planet. Were natives born with that? I thought they had a planetoid in orbit for births.

 

[Colin]

The people of King underwent a modification to the their DNA to make them far stronger and tougher. These mods bred true when both parents were from King. It also made them "bleeders" with hypercharged circulatory systems, and their lifespans topped out at around 50 or so. Children were born in an orbital hospital because even with the modifications, the world was too hard on newborns.

In the game, King has been settled for nearly 100 years. If that tech was available back then, wouldn't it be seeing more use in the games "present"?

 

[gloomhound]

I thought it was regarded as only being marginally successful with some unpleasant trade-offs. But I could be wrong.

Being wrong is one of the dangers of staying up late and posting. :wink: