Posted by: Michael Sandy
« on: October 26, 2006, 02:32:50 PM »Technological rate of change in the Aurora game system changes quite a bit.
Consider the Nemesis campaign. At the start, there are several technologies that can be researched in under a year. That means that ships could be behind the tech curve by the time they are built, and have to be refit by the time they can be overhauled.
However, the human powers probably won't build more research labs for a while as their economies are declining. With research rates at a plateau, they will slowly master the cheaper technologies to the point that new technologies only come every year, or even every three years.
Figure that it will take at least ten years before even the Commonwealth can contemplate building more research labs, let alone the others, and the time between technology advances will steadily increase.
This means that ships that take longer to build won't fall as much behind on technology.
I wonder what the spread between tech levels will end up. A power might have some technologies that took 3-5 years to research, but have some gaps with technologies that would take less than 6 months to research untouched.
Consider the Nemesis campaign. At the start, there are several technologies that can be researched in under a year. That means that ships could be behind the tech curve by the time they are built, and have to be refit by the time they can be overhauled.
However, the human powers probably won't build more research labs for a while as their economies are declining. With research rates at a plateau, they will slowly master the cheaper technologies to the point that new technologies only come every year, or even every three years.
Figure that it will take at least ten years before even the Commonwealth can contemplate building more research labs, let alone the others, and the time between technology advances will steadily increase.
This means that ships that take longer to build won't fall as much behind on technology.
I wonder what the spread between tech levels will end up. A power might have some technologies that took 3-5 years to research, but have some gaps with technologies that would take less than 6 months to research untouched.