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Supply chains and taxes will cause equipment to fluctuate in cost far more than TL will. In the US you can have state sales tax, county sales tax, and city sales tax. New Mexico for example ranges from 5.1250% to 9.2500% sales tax.
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10-17-2021, 08:59 AM | #22 | |
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Actually, to be fair, steam engines do show some significant jumps, which sometimes just about correspond to GURPS TLs if you squint a bit, from low pressure to high pressure to multi-stage expansion to the big step change that was steam turbines. But at each point, the previous technology remained in use for many years in many places.
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10-17-2021, 09:51 AM | #24 | |
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I'd separate planes (even jets) by engine output or some similar measure. Availability of a new and higher performance engine is the most reliable indicator of a viable new generation of military aircraft. For failed aircraft development stories "The engine wasn't ready on time" is the overwhelmingly most common cause.
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10-17-2021, 10:16 AM | #25 |
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Very sophisticated wood. Plywood is a TL5 invention that actually had some refinements at TL6, and the type used in the Mozzie might even rate as early TL7. Anyhow, the Mozzie was in fact a monocoque construction, so if that's a TL7 marker...
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10-17-2021, 11:55 AM | #26 | |
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The Germans used Tego film for their attempt at a similar aircraft, the Ta 154 Moskito. That's based on phenol-formaldehyde resin, but when the factory that produced it was bombed, they didn't try to build another, but went for substitutes, none of which worked properly. I suspect corruption, personally.
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10-17-2021, 12:16 PM | #27 | ||
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"Technological skills based on attributes other than IQ let you use technology; they do not assume any real understanding of the science or engineering behind the tools." (Basic Set 168) For these type of skills apply a flat penalty of -1 per TL of difference between the skill and the equipment. So a TL6 soldier could fire a TL7 gun at -1 skill rather then -5. Non IQ Tech skills are Beam Weapons†, Boating†, Driving†, Environment Suits†, Gunner†, Guns†, Liquid Projector†, Parachuting, Piloting†, Sewing, and Submarine†. Heck, you likely would have more of a famiarility penalty within a TL than between TLs with those skills. For example, I learned to drive in small cars back in the 1980's so driving my father's 1970 Chrysler which also had its idle set higher than normal was likely -2 to driving skill until I got use to handling that tank of a vehicle. Then you have manual vs automatic transmissions - I have never driven a manual transmission vehicle and would likely be grinding gears with the older ones (some newer ones eliminated the need for a clutch pedal). Quote:
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10-18-2021, 05:17 PM | #28 | |
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TL penalties make sense and having a fixed size simplifies things but the difference in the real world varies a lot and how bad the result of failing is also. |
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