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Nanotechnology
- Thread starter Allyson Locke
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Popo
I'm Sexy and I Know It
Yeah... I really got nothin' to defend myself with... Best enjoy Taco Bell while I can, I guess...
Menka Guga
Loose Bombshell
I wanted to vote for two things, but I guess Popo's gas isn't a critical problem... I guess....
Judah Dashiell
Salvage Empire
I really wanted to ban [member="Popo"] 's gas as well but voted to bring back out little robots. There could be some great uses with this and I even have a few in mind if the rule is reversed. I'd love to see it back in the factory.
If nanotechnology is allowed I think it must have a mandatory dev thread with restrictions on the item/product.
If nanotechnology is allowed I think it must have a mandatory dev thread with restrictions on the item/product.
Taa Nul
CEO of Kamigen Incorporated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAf0QnLFS7Q
The End Narrator
Narrator
I vote Yes, with restrictions to the actual application.
I ask that obviously common sense be used.
If it is going to make you live longer, forever, or something in a medical application that really doesn't benefit the community - throw the idea in the bin.
Cosmetic applications for missions, plot devices, etc. I'm game. Applications for plot devices such as turning an NPC into an explosive device (within reason and discussed amongst Faction Administration or something like that.) I'm game.
Throwing six dozen NPCs at me who are set to explode in an Invasion - no dice.
I ask that obviously common sense be used.
If it is going to make you live longer, forever, or something in a medical application that really doesn't benefit the community - throw the idea in the bin.
Cosmetic applications for missions, plot devices, etc. I'm game. Applications for plot devices such as turning an NPC into an explosive device (within reason and discussed amongst Faction Administration or something like that.) I'm game.
Throwing six dozen NPCs at me who are set to explode in an Invasion - no dice.
Captain Larraq
Capitalist
While, at a glance, I see the reasoning behind banning nanotechnology and how it can be unfair, I can also think of a handful of canon sources that are similar enough to nanotechnology to be... considered as such. One of which is a colony of single celled organisms that is force sensitive and can basically do whatever it wants.
If the vote passes to remove them from the banned tech list, perhapse add them to the restricted materials list instead? With some limitations on what sort of nano-tech is and isn't acceptable.
If the vote passes to remove them from the banned tech list, perhapse add them to the restricted materials list instead? With some limitations on what sort of nano-tech is and isn't acceptable.
Razelle Breuner
Rogue Element
Echoing the above opinions, yeah, nanotech is similar enough to a few currently allowed materials and concepts that it's a little silly to keep it banned, but it's also rife with potential for abuse. If not banned, then restricted and carefully reviewed. It's entirely possible to accidentally create superweapons with this stuff.
Got some cool ideas of how to use it, though. Provided I can nonsense the science well enough to appease our true FJ overlords.
Got some cool ideas of how to use it, though. Provided I can nonsense the science well enough to appease our true FJ overlords.
Keepin Corellia Weird
[member="Alyesa Organa"] - Specifically one of the modern nanotech is working to create or lengthen telomeres in DNA/cells, so that aging is slowed or stopped. At current the theoretical inclination is it won't be able to keep you alive forever (cancer, etc..), but that aging itself wouldn't kill you. I don't see that as being a problem. When you use it for regenerative purposes to never die from violence, you are violating a site rule. So no need to ban that from the Factory, it is already covered. Really being 'ageless' has no bearing on anything fairness related, that isn't covered or prevented by other rules. As well 'benefit the community' is terribly subjective, and we need to be objective here. What benefits the community changes from writer to writer. And why not an NPC bomb? It's loosely cannon, and is no worse than people rolling up in massive beskar battle tanks that are absurdly hard to destroy (And which I love personally).
I say bring them back. Restricted materials makes sense. Something akin to the A.I. challenge would be best, forcing people to detail with the medical/scientific end of it. You make people do more than handwave their toys, and 90% of those looking to abuse the tech (who are consequently usually lazy louts as well as munchkin/power gamers) will scatter like so many cockroaches in the light.
I say bring them back. Restricted materials makes sense. Something akin to the A.I. challenge would be best, forcing people to detail with the medical/scientific end of it. You make people do more than handwave their toys, and 90% of those looking to abuse the tech (who are consequently usually lazy louts as well as munchkin/power gamers) will scatter like so many cockroaches in the light.
Ayden Cater
Grumpy Goat
I'll vote yes, but like most have said before me; add it to the restricted materials list.
It should require a pretty substantive development period and solid explanation of what it does and does not do.
It should require a pretty substantive development period and solid explanation of what it does and does not do.
S H A D O W
More than likely it will end up on the Restricted list and I'll have to detail out what is Okay and what isn't. Parts of the tech will remain on the banned list such as "nanobots that raise the dead" :l
Seraphina Shel'tah
Kinky Darth Pinky
Yessss.....Yessssss....
*Pets the microtechnology superweapon deathray machine*
"Soon, my darling....Soon."
*Pets the microtechnology superweapon deathray machine*
"Soon, my darling....Soon."
Razelle Breuner
Rogue Element
Cyberzombies would be pretty cool for an event monster, though.
Zaiden Dean
The Stealth Master
Down with large bots! Up wit the minis!
Sure.
There are computer chips made of organ tissue, why not mini robots?
There are computer chips made of organ tissue, why not mini robots?
Kana Truden
Wandering Healer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJvOxFhVNbQ
Keepin Corellia Weird
Just because you have a 'mini-bot' is no reason to hate on those of us with large bots.The Dark Knight said:
I agree, conditional/selective allowance and restricted mats listing, at the least.
Asemir
Null Prime
I said this before, but you have to define "nanotechnology". It's like saying "Let's ban electrical engineering." It's too broad.
IRL, we are nearly at the point where nanotechnology is not science fiction, but has commercial applications. (IIRC, there are already experimental uses of nanotech in medicine, such as delivering nanoparticles of metals like gold to destroy/mark cancer cells.)
What do you mean by nanotechnology?
Also, we need to ban electrical engineering. Electrical engineers are 100% behind all canon super weapons like the Death Star and Sun Crusher.
Ban the EE majors!
IRL, we are nearly at the point where nanotechnology is not science fiction, but has commercial applications. (IIRC, there are already experimental uses of nanotech in medicine, such as delivering nanoparticles of metals like gold to destroy/mark cancer cells.)
What do you mean by nanotechnology?
Also, we need to ban electrical engineering. Electrical engineers are 100% behind all canon super weapons like the Death Star and Sun Crusher.
Ban the EE majors!
D O M I N U S
I am down for the middle ground.
Certain godmodium aspects of nano-technology should definitely remain on the banned list. Such things as raising the dead, immortality, etc.
And putting a new writing challenge in place to submit them in the first place, plus the watchful eyes of Divine Spencer the Jacobs and her legion, I'm pretty sure the potential abuse will be downright minimum at best.
It's one of those things that hasn't been explored or utilized by companies. A new horizon for Chaos writers to dabble in. Sure, there are things in Canon that accomplish similar/same effects. But likewise, there are a bunch of burger joints. I could go to any of them because they have greasy meat, but dammit I want Five Guys.
But I'm broke.
Where was I going with this...
Certain godmodium aspects of nano-technology should definitely remain on the banned list. Such things as raising the dead, immortality, etc.
And putting a new writing challenge in place to submit them in the first place, plus the watchful eyes of Divine Spencer the Jacobs and her legion, I'm pretty sure the potential abuse will be downright minimum at best.
It's one of those things that hasn't been explored or utilized by companies. A new horizon for Chaos writers to dabble in. Sure, there are things in Canon that accomplish similar/same effects. But likewise, there are a bunch of burger joints. I could go to any of them because they have greasy meat, but dammit I want Five Guys.
But I'm broke.
Where was I going with this...