[quote=“ted, post:51, topic:1797”]If factions with mass production of high tech rare items are or were part of the plan, then it’s a flaw in the plan. In that design, it’s likely that they’d utterly eclipse most others in importance.
I’m not sure how many names compose a handful, but the Manhattan Project employed literal tons of scientists, drawn from a pool of candidates that encompassed the entire nation, and called upon over 100,000 total workers. Many postapocalyptic factions would not have 100,000 people total; Oppenheimer and Fermi would not have made a nuclear weapon together in a garage. Bringing up light bulbs in the same breath is fairly ridiculous.
I think grisamentum’s concerns are with gameplay, not realism, and they’re entirely justified if so.[/quote]
They have always been part of the plan.
Click the factions shortcut or read the source code for what defines individual factions, mass production of robots is one of the values that determine what separates one faction from another. The science behind nuclear weapons were discovered by a few bright minds who had the bravery to think outside the boxes set up in their time, the principals of putting it in action can be taught by any university once the huge leap in logic was made by the original few who were willing to be called stupid and crazy by their fellow temporal companions. In this day and age of crazy technology individuals can make 100000 times the impact an individual could make in the past during their time. Julian assange has done bugger all but he is way more famous then isaac newton or socraties were in their time. It took Van Gogh and gallilao to die before anyone gave them a second look, and as you say, 100,000 others appered after they died to bring an ‘offical’ movement.
Look at history, all great discoveroes were ‘crazy’ before they were ‘sane’, and most the time they were made by one person before, as you say, 100,000 other worked on it. Most great minds were either killed or forced to commit suicide, read your history child.
