01-12-2019, 10:36 AM | #221 |
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Re: Comment my megacorporation
Only that the corporation's founders somehow have technology centuries ahead of the rest of the world without raising the world's TL at the same time.
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01-12-2019, 10:44 AM | #222 | |
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Re: Comment my megacorporation
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P. B513 gives rules for raising local TL, but they are only for raising it to an advanced TL that you have already mastered. If you don't have the skills, you will first have to learn them. If the skills don't exist, you will first have to invent the relevant technologies, and then teach them to yourself on an on-the-job basis; and there will probably be more than one advanced technology required for each field. We don't have rules for those, but it's going to take longer and be more difficult than the things we do have rules for. Of course you can give your inventors Gadgeteer, but that makes it a cinematic campaign, not a realistic one.
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01-12-2019, 10:58 AM | #223 |
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This is a really cool setting idea. Is there any way they could have inadvertently created an AI that's pulling the strings? That could explain how they're able to manipulate people so easily and have almost a psychic-like foresight for how events will play out.
If you know how the effects of your actions will trickle through society, you can manipulate the two party system and make one of the parties collapse. You can send in a plague that knocks out the supreme court justices. You can do almost anything. And this would all be "comic book" realistic--that is, the kind of thing that appears plausible if you don't tug too hard at the seams and see what begins to unravel.
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01-12-2019, 11:18 AM | #224 |
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Probably, because there's a lot, but that's the high level outline.
I think the original logic was Q: How did you get that incredibly advanced technology? A: We spent vast amounts on researching it. Q: How did you get all that money? A: We sold the products of the incredibly advanced technology. and then when it was pointed out that the process of getting all the money would run afoul of antitrust and other laws, Q: How did you get the money to research that technology? A: We changed the law. Q: How did you get the political power to change the law? A: We used incredibly advanced technology to influence political outcomes, and we spent vast amounts of money on doing so. I think this all seems circular.
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01-12-2019, 11:41 AM | #225 | |
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So locals are TL8, just what I said. No thanks. Gadgeteer is forbidden. |
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01-12-2019, 11:47 AM | #226 | |
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01-12-2019, 11:56 AM | #227 |
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Re: Comment my megacorporation
The entertainment sector is just not that large. Jeff Bezos is as wealthy as he is because his company sells physical products beyond entertainment. If he had just kept to entertainment products, he would not be the wealthiest person on Earth. Anyway, even if the US dropped the ball, the EU is quite willing to break up monopolies.
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01-12-2019, 11:57 AM | #228 |
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So they can use those rules to innovate at TL8 or TL9. But they totally don't apply to inventing anything at TL10 or TL11. There are only two ways to do this: take Gadgeteer, or raise the TL for the entire society, so that you have an industrial base to support the innovation.
And if you raise the TL for the entire society, they no longer have a huge one-sided advantage in economics or politics.
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