Technology

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 10:11 pm

Just a quick question... is technology going to progress, or is this game going to be in the middle ages forever? Like... will there be flintlocks, or canons, or something?

Fieps · Post by **Fieps** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 10:35 pm

It will stay like at the moment.

Rynt · Post by **Rynt** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 7:07 am

We don't need guns and cannons. We have magic for that. Did you know hte multiple of Wizard is War?

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 7:21 am

Well, I thought they planned to have a water wheel that ran a saw or something, or am I not getting what you mean?

Setherioth · Post by **Setherioth** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 8:04 am

yeah but water wheel isn't really technologically progressing, because they have already been invented for the time period. What he meant was that there will be no new inventions, they're may be some more things put into the game but they will stay within the time period period.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 8:11 am

Well new things being put in like that would be kind of progressing in technology for the island. What about racial inventions like gnomes are pretty smart maybe they have some kind of glider, or hobbits have a harvester thingy where you push it and when the wheels turn it turns little gears that make blades go back and forth or something.

Yakin · Post by **Yakin** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 2:42 pm

But we will not turn into the 21 century *g*

I don't want to fire with guns of birds

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 12:45 am

Hmm... I think a really interesting thing to have in the game would be watches...

Galim · Post by **Galim** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 12:49 am

@rynt
don't abuse the words of master Terry Pratchett

why should we have cannons or equal technology? this IS a medi-evil game, and it should be one for a looong time. so only medi-evil technology should be allowed.

@paul watches? you mean watches like a sunclock or anithing else, i hope.

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 1:03 am

No, I don't. I mean actual watches.

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~horology ... c411179457

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 3:28 am

what about a big sun-dial in the middle of town?

Tzi Hahasus · Post by **Tzi Hahasus** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 4:08 am

@ Paul:
According to the link you posted, they were making watches as early as the Renaissance. It didn't say anything about people walking around with them in medieval times.

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 5:17 pm

Oh, come on. Cut me a little slack.

Sawnsarae · Post by **Sawnsarae** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 8:36 pm

Middle Ages - period in the history of Europe that lasted from about AD 350 to about 1450....Two other medieval inventions, the clock and the printing press, also have had a permanent influence on all aspects of human life. The invention of a weight-driven clock in 1286 meant that people would no longer live in a world structured primarily by the daily course of the sun and the yearly change of the seasons. The clock was also an immense aid to navigation, and the precise measurement of time was essential for the growth of modern science.

I think a town clock is a good idea.