Does Infinity Unlimited use "Tech Levels" or something like them?

[Randyman]

Originally Posted by Michael Thayne

I suspect the main classifications would be:

Stone Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Industrial
High-Tech (not in the GURPS sense, but in the sense of being at least close to Homeline in technology)

When finer distinctions are needed, references to real-world historical eras are used, though this will get problematic for worldines that diverged long before the local time, leading to awkward constructions like "technology similar to that of Homeline's middle ages" ("middle ages" being a distinctly Eurocentric term without clear definition in terms of technology).

I think it's especially hard to imagine Infinity making distinctions between TLs 10+, there being too few of those worldlines to establish any rules. But it might come to be generally known that when someone says "very high-tech," they mean "something like Caliph."

Actually, I could see a numeric index corresponding to GURPS TL, only Infinity's index tops out at 10 - like a lot of other rough indices do.

[Phil Masters]

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[Randyman]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

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