08-10-2018, 08:02 AM | #11 | |
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Re: TL-10 gear manufactured by TL-12 factories
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Exactly what the GM wants the planet to produce is one of those worldbuilding decisions. If you need to justify it, then this is one rationale. Just adjust the low-tech opportunity costs to favor folk art and agriculture; or the converse, if that's what's desired. (You might then go into even more detail on which products within that manufacturing sector have the comparative advantage, or similarly which ones in the agricultural sector. But that's probably overkill. I suspect most players will be happy with a reason that not every world in a subsector must necessarily be a charity dependent on the highest tech planet in the sector, even though it's true that Rhylanor's TL15 stuff is cheaper.) |
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08-10-2018, 11:03 AM | #12 |
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Re: TL-10 gear manufactured by TL-12 factories
Higher technology worlds even have the advantage on agricultural products, because of things like advanced hybrids, better tractors, fusion powered fertilizer factories, etc. The one place where the low technology world might have the advantage is where things just don't take to mechanization, such as plucking saffron threads out of the flowers.
If it hasn't been mentioned already, lower technology worlds might try to build universities. "Where in the Marches can you learn jump navigation by slide-rule? Only at Knorbes Institute of Advanced Learning." |
08-10-2018, 04:52 PM | #13 | |
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08-10-2018, 05:06 PM | #14 | |
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Western clothing and western values are often seen as inextricably linked, and while outright bans are usually religiously imposed, such a "restriction to privilege" move keeps western clothing out of the grasp of locals. The question becomes, "can a typical Ugandan afford to dress in «Western Clothing» if they want to?" and "Do Ugandans actually want to dress in «Western Clothing»?" If the second is "no", the first is moot. If the first is no, then the move is political for more than just job-protection - it gets into the range of cultural protection. |
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08-10-2018, 08:00 PM | #15 | |
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The TL-6 world is the primary food producer for the kingdom and many nonaligned worlds as well. It’s a low population borderline garden world. The other world in the kingdom is the capital, a low population but high tech level hell world. There are several other worlds of varying tech levels that have entered a defensive pact, and that’s what the planetary defense installations are meant to defend. |
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08-11-2018, 04:08 PM | #16 |
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Re: TL-10 gear manufactured by TL-12 factories
Or more bureaucratic than worker protection. In Guyanna, a large portion of the nations income is from migrant workers in developed nations sending money and goods home. Money orders are heavily taxed, so barrels full of non-perishables are frequently sent instead, and clothing is a common item in them. Then everyone goes to market and buys/sells/swaps the contents of their barrels. I could see the government banning imported second hand clothing as a way of closing a tax loophole.
This also demonstrates a possible way a low-tech planet could "trade" with the high tech one. Instead of organized and external charity, you have migrant workers sending money home. The low tech nation's export is the most ambitious of their population.
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08-13-2018, 09:10 AM | #17 |
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previously mentioned as "domestic servants, educators, performers, life coaches..." in an earlier post.
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08-13-2018, 05:22 PM | #18 |
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Its export is what we call "labour".
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08-13-2018, 05:40 PM | #19 |
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Re: TL-10 gear manufactured by TL-12 factories
Not always just “labor”. A real world example might be India, which is largely at TL-7 and even TL-6... but which has teaching hospitals and universities at TL-8, or near enough not to matter. I don’t know about the rest of the world but India exports physicians to the US like crazy, despite being overall at a lower TL.
Information Technology is, interestingly, another area where a lower tech world might compete. The low tech world might not be building servers or designing programming languages, but their people can learn to USE those languages designed elsewhere. Whatever the TL-12 equivalent of DBAs, SysAdmins and programmers are the population of the lower tech planet probably makes up a large percentage of them if current trends are any indication. |
08-18-2018, 09:56 PM | #20 | |
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