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Old 11-11-2017, 03:02 PM   #86
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Default Re: Making more ammo stuck on a low tech world.

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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth View Post
We have TL8 tools here, ammo isn't consumed to make rifles, and TL5 society has the metal, if not as cheaply as you might like.
Tools are in fact limited lifespan objects, ammo is required to make rifles useful, and TL 5 doesn't have good quality steels.
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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth View Post
I don't know what you mean by the '100:1', though I note you dropped the part of my post that talked about ammo from your quote.
A lot of the benefit of higher TL rifles is the ability to rapidly burn through large quantities of ammunition. That's only useful if you have large quantities of ammunition to burn through (if you're ammo isn't cheap enough to justify burst fire, there's no reason to have an assault rifle).
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