The Empire of Slavonia wrote:Supreme Authority wrote:Note that nothing above PMT is allowed on Earth. Orbital bombardments are also banned. However, you could play FT in space only if you wish.
Sure, I'm fine with that. And orbital bombardments have always been something I found obnoxious and unoriginal, so that is okay with me as well
Sorry I missed you. Accepted.
Well, this is one of the issues with PMT; nobody has a perfect idea of exactly what the future holds, and when it will hold it. Strict dividing lines are much easier to draw with, say, WWII or even MT. Traditionally on NS the dividing line between PMT/FT is FTL. A very good and well-known example of what I personally (n=1 opinion) consider PMT and not FT is much of the Command and Conquer series (scrin excluded ofc); no FTL and mostly recognizable military hardware, but outside the purview of today's technology.The Coalition Theomilitary wrote:So are there actually any hard and fast rules as to what defines FT?
I see what I would probably consider to be a lot of PMT stuff being used, things that to me, would probably fit in early-mid FT. I can get like, for the sake of preventing things like people with energy shields that can shrug off tank rounds, or teleporting grenades... But things I see like the microshard warheads, some of the advanced assault rifles people are using, and even looking into how the Slayers are genetically modified super soldier cyborgs with power armor... I am failing to see a clearly defined line for what is definitively FT enough to not be allowed on the ground.
I am asking this because in the event I do end up throwing something into the ground war, I was under the impression I had to nerf myself pretty far, and I don't want to find out I brought a knife to a gunfight.
Formal apologies since this has been asked before, but I feel the answer that was given then is not particularly clear enough. I can understand the tech boundary more if this was just plain MT, or even WWII or WWI technology at play here, given the trench warfare, but this is clearly not the case.
In other news, I am working on a post and since Higher Japan has left, I am looking to stir things up a bit with who's left.
I will admit that the microshard warheads probably push the PMT boundary a bit. Slayers though, surprisingly, are very much PMT, and nearly everything about them has at least a loose and artistically-licensed connection to real-world science.