Re: [HoE] Re: Timeline

[Sam & Max <samnmax1@earthlink.net>]

Xotzil@aol.com wrote:

> Hrm. MY big thing with the timeline is that supplements seem to make
> Futuretech more prevalent than Junkertech. Cybertechnology (particularly the
> Infiltrators), Data Slugs and the Librarian's Palm Recorders seem too "clean"
> a technology to have evolved from Mad Science. I don't get a sense of that
> cobbled-togetherness that most Mad Science seemed to have going for it.

> I know that Palm Pilots are used by a ton of techies today, and that a Data

> Slug is just a fancy type of floppy, but it still seems too "normal." I much

> preferred the huge monstrosities that WrdWst MS's constantly had to tinker
> with, and the whole flavour of Junkers was changed by JC.

The Dataslugs and such arent Mad Science if I remember right.  Mad science was
on the decline for a long time before the war and as such plenty of things were
based in good old fashioned tech.  The Palmcorders are easily within the next
decade or so Tech wise and memory just keeps shrikin' at a crazy rate.  Some
things should be normal tech like this. If it was the next few years.. (sorry).
And as for Junkertech being more prevalent... well the stuff has a nasty habit
of disintergrating from time to time. Finding reliable old tech is pretty nice
too. And would be valued more by some.

> Not that I don't think the "new" Junkers aren't cool, but (1) it doesn't feel
> "junk-y" enough,
> and (2) I liked the idea of a Junker grabbing a passing manitou by the
> unmentionables and FORCING it into a component to make it work, which was the
> sense of it that I got in the main rulebook. Again, NOTHING wrong with the
> "new" ones...I just liked the other [interpreted] version better.
>

I think the idea of the Manitou whompin' Junkers was kinda cooler as well. The
rules now are much more usuable and streamlined.  The ones presented in the Main
book defined the term "undefined" :)  The presentation was interesting. It had
more of an edge of danger to it I think. As far as feeling junky I always make
the Junkers in my Posse (have two!) try and describe what sorta cobbled together
stuff they are using and thats makes the devices feel "junky" as all get out.
One has an Old Drill body as the frame for a motion sensor with microphones
wired to the sides and a palmtop screen welded to the top for display.

>
> What do y'all think? I'm not talking about "advancement" per se...more about
> the flavour of the tech.
>
> --Jacques
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