07-08-2020, 02:05 PM | #11 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Shoreline, WA (north of Seattle)
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Re: Infinity Unlimited Questions - Gear and Whatnot
Heck, have the side effect vary by timeline because Reasons. Infinity being responsible for the development of superpowers, psionics, or the return of magic on various timelines could be hilarious.
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07-08-2020, 02:34 PM | #12 |
Hero of Democracy
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: far from the ocean
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Re: Infinity Unlimited Questions - Gear and Whatnot
For messages, I usually have them be a pain to transfer back and forth, limited to a conveyor traversing between worlds. This is a core limitation of the base setting, and gives players an excuse not to call HQ everytime something goes off the rails.
I do have a number of message systems in place for the players though. I give infinity a number of parachronic satellites that go from world to world, letting teams on low-tech worlds give and receive messages. On worlds that would notice the radio-waves, you can usually send a message to a location with regular conveyor travel on the time-line. These methods give one to three day response times on messages. I've got a set of houserules that lets conveyors send messages between worlds if the proper expensive gear is on the receiving world, but that tech set also includes narrow time-frames for jumps and the ability to block or triangulate an incoming jump-- and the message sending is based on the blocking technology. For TL9 gear, I mostly just embrace that infinity is TL9. Players are allowed one or two cool pieces of gear from a nifty world. I've never worried about conveyor trip prices unless you were renting the whole conveyor, in which case I use its value divided by 250 weeks (the time in which its expected to earn its keep), and possibly double that number for profit and time spent trying to find a renter. That's the price per week. If you're worried about the fare on an established route, its comparable to a taxi or train fare: its there, and it varies, but ultimately its not worth tracking. I've never used Eraser in an infinity game.
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07-09-2020, 08:20 AM | #13 | |||
Join Date: Dec 2014
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Re: Infinity Unlimited Questions - Gear and Whatnot
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Why have a shotgun if a slug barely does a single die of damage more. Why use submachine guns when the ISP has a RoF of 10 and also hits harder. Why use armour piercing bullets when - because of the damage type reduction from pi to pi- - anything smaller than a full sized rifle deals less damage with the armor divisor than the ISP in basic damage. Why use any other pistol at all if every single stat is worse. Why even use the ICW (Infantry Combat Weapon), Infinity's other standard weapon, if after damage type adjustment, yhey deal the same damage, but the ISP can be hidden in a jacket. etc. Of course there is some gear that they use. Like frangible rounds for doors etc. but still most of the guns are non viable at all for them. Quote:
One of the sillier examples I could name from my games was when the player were at a bathhouse in Johnson's Rome and additional towels were ridiculously pricy. When asked why I just quickly came up with the response. "Well a Conveyor costs 50 million per ton of weight. A towel is about a pound. So transporting those Towels from Homeline would cost about $25 per towel if we assume that it makes about 1000 jumps before breaking down" |
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07-09-2020, 10:07 AM | #14 | |
Hero of Democracy
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: far from the ocean
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Re: Infinity Unlimited Questions - Gear and Whatnot
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I generally roll my eyes and say "Please No" when a player tries to use ETC. In my infinity games, if this is a place to be using out-time gear its usually also a place to be bringing body armor and heavy weapons.
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