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[Platyna]

In our house is an old copying machine that my mother, in dark ages of
communism were using to copy propaganda leaflets, in the form of small
gazette, she could even make a thousand each week, and believe me or
not - that copying machine is so primitive mechanical construction that
could be surely made in medieval times by some skilled dwarf. :-)

Regards.

[Kaseijin]

Originally posted by Incenjucar
 Nor does anything say \"European\"

ok then i simply don\'t understand what you meant with this...what doesn\'t say european?

i don\'t know if the site is acting up but i checked the players guide that comes with the game it has this part...which leaves room for some exceptional citizens to enter the close knit government

Nevertheless is not too rare to find some high citizens that are elected thanks to people acclamation, taking place of Vigesimi that are dead, that are judged inept or that are found to be guilty of thievery.

[Incenjucar]

Yes, its a semi-fluid society.  They predate humanity.  Whee.

--

The \"Could be made by\" thing is not a valid argument, considerng everything that has been made -could- be made, by definition.  You\'d be amazed, however, how many things that -could- be made, weren\'t made in various parts of the world.

Again, it all comes down to the devs.  I personally hope they make scribes a decent archetype, and keep as many forms of machinery non-existant as possible.

[Platyna]

Could be made [using resources available in medieval times].

Regards.

[Incenjucar]

So can cars.

[Monketh]

Cars?  No.  Metal manipulation technology was not of a sufficient level.


It\'s a bloody newspaper!  I don\'t understand why there\'s all this ruckus over whether or not it could happen in the midieval ages, or whether that has any relevance on Planeshift.  Even if it couldn\'t have existed in the time period, that is not going to stop the publishers, and frankly, I could care less.  It\'s a game.  Games exist for recreation, and if having a newspaper exist in a certain perceived time period (we don\'t know the actual technological level, only guess at it) throws off your RP, maybe you\'re too sensitive.  Lighten up.  :rolleyes:

[Incenjucar]

1) Magic.

2) Never said it would be a hot rod.

3) Using the assumption that \"If you can explain it, you can do it\", someone could just as easily get the idea for metal manipulaition tech as they can for a printer.

4) I have preferences.  Its not a huge deal to me.  However, I\'m still hoping the mods share my preferences.  So sue me.

[Draklar]

Well ok, I guess there\'s nothing wrong with IC newspaper...
Like there\'s nothing wrong with that cellphone that I had pleasure to see in action ingame. It must be a vibrating artifact, giving possibility to talk on long distances... or something.
I guess we should take every single thing people come up with, build a setting out of it and roleplay in it. Or even better, everyone should be roleplaying in their own setting.
Roleplaying in Planeshift is on such high level that I don\'t think anything could wreck it anyway...
It is the beauty of Planeshift after all... the free-form allowing people to behave like a cyborg coming from 5000 years forward, talk about smoking weed or maybe breakdancing...

[Incenjucar]

Like Furcadia.  Bwahahahahahahaahahaha

[Kaseijin]

ok you convinced me...i will join you hair splitting society... in fact i am going to split two hairs right away

what\'s up with the public street lighting.... lanterns?.... i am personally not aware of presence of such public lighting in the medieval times

and the sewers...the piping.. it\'s very advanced with valves and everything, pressured piping?... too advanced for medieval?

[Annah]

* is intrigued why the hell people are still arguing on something that was clarified in the first posts.

 Come on, want to help? Help! Don\'t want to help? Shut up, and let the girl work ...  :rolleyes:

 PS:
 

Like Furcadia. Bwahahahahahahaahahaha

 God ...  :rolleyes:

[seperot]

man if our radio station took this much abuse i dunno how we could take it and we dont have any realy good excuses....

speaking of which if the head of the newspaper (yes im too lazy to look...actually im kinda busy (blames tybalt) )could pm me i would like to talk about some kind of cross colaberation something that would benifit us both

[Platyna]

No cellphones, but why not crystals or balls like these bad-dude-mages
in Lord of the Rings had to communicate with each other? :-P

Regards.

[Incenjucar]

Heh.  I\'ve already stated that I have absolutely zero issue with the paper as explained, and that, if the devs want printing presses, it\'s entirely their call.  Same goes for sewer pipes and street lighting.  Just means the setting is more Eberron, less Dragonlance.  Though I will remind that a printing press is a much bigger deal than pipe valves.  Cheap information spread is a powerful tool.

[Kaseijin]

just a reminder d&d is not the only fantasy setting.... wotc/ex-tsr do not hold monopoly over fantasy settings. I mean Arcanum world combined the technology and magic just fine. In fact the setting itself is awesome, even though the game had less then perfect combat system.
Now just because it\'s not J.R.R Tolken enough... doesn\'t mean it\'s bad.