Re: [HoE] Re: Tech Level

[Prince Nightchilde <nghtchld@applink.net>]

Steven Sweeney wrote:

> Yeah, but I think HoE is meant more as "down 'n' dirty" game than as a
> John Woo style game.  Lower tech levels work better, and the less modern
> weapons fit the genre more smoothly.  For instance, if you're going to
> advance weaponry 100 yrs, then shouldn't you also advance medical
> treatment 100 yrs?  I mean, shouldn't there be some new technologies
> that would have survived?    The problem is, if you start upping the
> tech level on too many things, the game is less of a Wasted Western than
> it is Twilight 2100... and that's just a whole different genre.

Indeed.  I suspect that there will be higher tech available in Lost Colony.

Prince Nightchilde