Re:Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws
by throwaway1892 on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @04:42AM
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Do you know from which game does your picture comes from?
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Re:Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws
by e12e on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @04:49AM
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Looks like it is from a rpg book, not a computer game. My first guess was GURPS by Steve Jackson Games (General Universal Roleplaying System) - but I'm leaning towards one of the oldest roleplaying games (which AFAIK has been "computerized" several times): Traveller.
The "tech level" indicates which level of technology is needed for a particular piece of equipment to be available and/or normal (won't get you burned at the stake for using "magic") - in Traveller it is used to label different worlds in the universe AFAIK - with GURPS it also extends to cross-dimensinal travel, alternate realities, time travel etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveller_%28role-playing_game...
Re:Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws
by throwaway1892 on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @05:09AM
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Thank you for your answer.
(I had realised it should have been from a rpg, but I kept the game term from the previous comment to avoid confusion)
Re:Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws
by gvurrdon on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @06:04AM
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It is indeed Traveller; MegaTraveller, to be precise.
In those tech levels the best we could claim to be is early TL9, with laser weapons &c. We're supposed to have early fusion power, FTL and anti-gravity by the end of TL9, IIRC. I think that TL11 mentioned in the list is at a level where those three technologies are well established and their use routine.