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I may be being silly with GURPS rules
Feb. 23rd, 2012 01:40 pmSince I couldn't find rules for building buildings, I'm using rules for building spaceships, with rock, and leaving out the engines. This is quite possibly overkill. But since I want the city to have life support including climate control plus energy shields and hibernation pods and other such things already conveniently listed in the spaceship rules, and indeed in my spreadsheet of spaceships design, it will work out with all the numbers in place.
The only problem is I can't find a power plant rated for more than 200 years use. There are people available to do maintenance, perhaps they've just been fixing it? You can handwave and call it Cosmic and make it do pretty much anything you want, which is what Atlantis did, but everything else I need is either TL 9 (one up from ours, available in a few decades at most) or TL 10 if it's a biogadget (available by the end of this century), whereas handwavey tech is beyond the ken of current physics. So, I need something with manipulator appendages that gets woken up every couple of hundred years to fix the power plant. No problem.
Using the gestalt matrix computer, the one made by plugging lots of brains together, is a bit more limiting. It is the kind of atmosphere I want, where tech is very squishy, but it can only run about ten times as many mind emulation programs as there are bodies plugged in, assuming everyone is of strictly average intelligence. And assuming I did the maths right, which isn't guaranteed... ( Read more... )
I like playing with the rules because when you start you have a bazillion possibilities and a blank sheet of paper, but whenever you draw a line in, decide on some constraints, they generate conflict, drama, specific possibilities.
And I like these rules because now I know I need 100 different monsters and a large building to put them in, and inside them there's a VR world where magic works and getting back out to your own body is by no means guaranteed.
[ETA] I checked the Errata and the Mind Emulation rules are for racial average IQ, meaning any human Mind Emulation can run as complexity 9. Even if it has personal IQ of 18? And what is the racial IQ of an AI???
If plugging one brain in gives you a Complexity 9 computer running one Complexity 9 mind, that works. ( Read more... )
... my maths keeps on coming out different. I need better maths.
I have thoroughly confused myself anyway.
Still: when storage exceeds numbers that can be awake, competition for bodies OR run time is fierce.
That I can work with.
The only problem is I can't find a power plant rated for more than 200 years use. There are people available to do maintenance, perhaps they've just been fixing it? You can handwave and call it Cosmic and make it do pretty much anything you want, which is what Atlantis did, but everything else I need is either TL 9 (one up from ours, available in a few decades at most) or TL 10 if it's a biogadget (available by the end of this century), whereas handwavey tech is beyond the ken of current physics. So, I need something with manipulator appendages that gets woken up every couple of hundred years to fix the power plant. No problem.
Using the gestalt matrix computer, the one made by plugging lots of brains together, is a bit more limiting. It is the kind of atmosphere I want, where tech is very squishy, but it can only run about ten times as many mind emulation programs as there are bodies plugged in, assuming everyone is of strictly average intelligence. And assuming I did the maths right, which isn't guaranteed... ( Read more... )
I like playing with the rules because when you start you have a bazillion possibilities and a blank sheet of paper, but whenever you draw a line in, decide on some constraints, they generate conflict, drama, specific possibilities.
And I like these rules because now I know I need 100 different monsters and a large building to put them in, and inside them there's a VR world where magic works and getting back out to your own body is by no means guaranteed.
[ETA] I checked the Errata and the Mind Emulation rules are for racial average IQ, meaning any human Mind Emulation can run as complexity 9. Even if it has personal IQ of 18? And what is the racial IQ of an AI???
If plugging one brain in gives you a Complexity 9 computer running one Complexity 9 mind, that works. ( Read more... )
... my maths keeps on coming out different. I need better maths.
I have thoroughly confused myself anyway.
Still: when storage exceeds numbers that can be awake, competition for bodies OR run time is fierce.
That I can work with.