[quote=@Dinh AaronMk] You just added a serious amount of steps to the production of rubber, at which point when you have the coal just use it directly to make raw power. You'd need to now render the coal as a gas, which then need to be mixed with butaidiene. Then when that's all done: it needs to be polymerized with a mix of vulcanization chemicals. And where is anyone in the world going to get half of this? It's already an incredibly difficult process. At this point, just get a fucking rubber tree. You already need the rubber to perform these processes anyhow. You're really stretching yourself here. [/quote]Nobodygivesadamn.jpg [quote=@Dinh AaronMk] >Implying Fallout-like isn't in the title and most of us not in America totally aren't already separated by huge tracts of empty land that OP promises to fill with "native rebellion" for us to make our lives difficult. The point in this is to cause a stop and reconsideration per the norms of the setting and the otherwise limited confines in respect to laser rifles. But I'm beginning to suspect OP doesn't really read anything. [/quote]You have a quite weird vision of Fallout. AKA the world with laser guns as "low tech", fusion reactors powering abandoned churches, super viruses, teleporters, mind control devices, sentient AI and where radiation poisoning is the key to immortality. Yeah, and this list is horribly condensed in comparison all the things in Fallout. That sure tells something about the tech levels. Even if it's the exact opposite of what you try to argue for.:rolleyes Oh, you meant the lack of civilization? Oh, except the fact every game has several developed cities around. If a player's nation is more established than a ragtag government then what? The rest of the world is still shit. You're worrying over nothing. So long a player doesn't powergame it's all right in my book. [quote=@Dinh AaronMk] [Another post about how the knowledge/theory of a something =/= actually being able to do it] It's like people forget global supply chains and the manufacturing process. [/quote]We don't? You forget that global supply chains only accelerate the process than outright allow it. There are plenty alternative solutions to make our technology in some form. The nazis during WW2 designed a jet fighter which operated by burning coal in a basket. If some resource is unavailable you can just try to make it from something else. Especially with the wide potential of sci-fi technology. above all it gives the narrative power of vagueness. You can just say this or that was accomplished by a new method and it could be true. And again, nobody gives a damn about technicalities. This is a forum roleplaying game. Have fun!