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Post by ferk on Jan 9, 2012 18:15:30 GMT -5
I thought an appropriate thread might be sharing ideas about how people can/will utilize modern tech in new ways in this new future. I know that Wreck age takes place in the future's future but from what I read the future will have new stuff but much of it will be similar.
These ideas could be used as inspiration for the Reclaimer's repurposing tech ambitions and what they put their minds to. Not to mention adding fun ingenious ways for characters to solve complicated or simple problems with a endless supply of material detritus sprawled around them. a Engine block here, a old HVAC system here some antique duct tape etc etc.
So, I guess what I mean is, " What are people going to do with all this junk that constitutes our modern lives? "
Of course I have one idea I came upon recently.
I work in the construction business and get to see all the weird things that spin and burn behind the walls of your house. We're working now on a large home and they are building a pool at the same time. They were hooking up the big water filter and it hit me, "ah that would work in the apocalypse!" Pools are everywhere right. tons of them. each one has a really complicated filter system. essentially a group of survivors could get a easy dozen or so of these from your average suburb and set them up to draw water from a pond or pool and filter out particulates or keep the oxygen moving in an algae farm or whatever. with the help of a car engine or a water wheel they could be pretty useful.
Got a better idea?
Next great idea..Turning those gigantic nets used at golf driving ranges for seining nets...
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Post by demyztikx on Jan 9, 2012 21:48:55 GMT -5
Ever watch Colony? The first season is on Netflix instant watch right now. They build items out of spare parts a lot.
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Post by ferk on Jan 11, 2012 9:53:03 GMT -5
No i haven't seen that. I heard that it all took place indoors and I couldn't abide by an apocalypse without copious amounts of fresh air.
Question: What would you use the miles and miles of power line cables for?
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Post by demyztikx on Jan 11, 2012 11:12:03 GMT -5
They did it mostly indoors because they took up a defensive position in an old building. They went outside almost every day. They even had a work yard. So no, they didn't do it all indoors, but as they were in a city, being outside isn't exactly safe.
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Post by Carl on Jan 12, 2012 1:18:29 GMT -5
No i haven't seen that. I heard that it all took place indoors and I couldn't abide by an apocalypse without copious amounts of fresh air. Question: What would you use the miles and miles of power line cables for? Cable lines will be underground in the future. |
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Post by s1nn3d1 on Jan 12, 2012 6:33:33 GMT -5
Can't see any good reason why they would dig holes into the ground hundreds of kilometers long just to put a insulated and expensive cable into the ground, when spanning it from pole to pole its cheaper and easier.
And then some people would dig the cable up again because they were plowing a field or building an illegal building etc. etc. etc.
One could use the cables as heavy duty rupes for bridges or such stuff.
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Post by demyztikx on Jan 12, 2012 8:54:07 GMT -5
Massive Tesla coils.
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Post by Anton on Jan 15, 2012 22:44:34 GMT -5
No i haven't seen that. I heard that it all took place indoors and I couldn't abide by an apocalypse without copious amounts of fresh air. Question: What would you use the miles and miles of power line cables for? Cable lines will be underground in the future. Or if you live in Europe. |
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Post by Anton on Jan 15, 2012 22:46:49 GMT -5
I thought an appropriate thread might be sharing ideas about how people can/will utilize modern tech in new ways in this new future. I know that Wreck age takes place in the future's future but from what I read the future will have new stuff but much of it will be similar. These ideas could be used as inspiration for the Reclaimer's repurposing tech ambitions and what they put their minds to. Not to mention adding fun ingenious ways for characters to solve complicated or simple problems with a endless supply of material detritus sprawled around them. a Engine block here, a old HVAC system here some antique duct tape etc etc. So, I guess what I mean is, " What are people going to do with all this junk that constitutes our modern lives? " Of course I have one idea I came upon recently. I work in the construction business and get to see all the weird things that spin and burn behind the walls of your house. We're working now on a large home and they are building a pool at the same time. They were hooking up the big water filter and it hit me, "ah that would work in the apocalypse!" Pools are everywhere right. tons of them. each one has a really complicated filter system. essentially a group of survivors could get a easy dozen or so of these from your average suburb and set them up to draw water from a pond or pool and filter out particulates or keep the oxygen moving in an algae farm or whatever. with the help of a car engine or a water wheel they could be pretty useful. Got a better idea? Next great idea..Turning those gigantic nets used at golf driving ranges for seining nets... The whole algae farm concept is gone into detail in Windup Girl. You should check it out. I wanted to focus on things of that nature, and even had some concept written for things, that once I read the book, we had to axe, sort of like we had an entire Roman-empire themed faction that we cut once Fallout New Vegas came out. |
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Post by jturner on Jan 16, 2012 19:25:39 GMT -5
Matt posted a youtube link in the scrap heap about a new doomsday/preppers series by national geographic. The first story is about this guy who bought a house and turned the backyard pool into a pond where he grows algae that he uses to feed the fish (tilapia what mass-produce like guppies) and fertilize and even eat. I don't think a real life idea like that can be cornered just because it was used in a book (I haven't read wind-up, but I read the wiki  ) Anton, if you didn't watch that, you should! Maybe revive the algae farm thing  |
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Post by Anton on Jan 16, 2012 23:44:58 GMT -5
Matt posted a youtube link in the scrap heap about a new doomsday/preppers series by national geographic. The first story is about this guy who bought a house and turned the backyard pool into a pond where he grows algae that he uses to feed the fish (tilapia what mass-produce like guppies) and fertilize and even eat. I don't think a real life idea like that can be cornered just because it was used in a book (I haven't read wind-up, but I read the wiki ) Anton, if you didn't watch that, you should! Maybe revive the algae farm thing I like the idea, I just don't want to be accused of being a ____ rip off... We have worked really hard to create a unique setting, to the point that we've literally dumped huge aspects of our setting once we realized that someone else had already written something similar. That said; I do definitely like the concept of algae farms... It makes sense. |
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Post by Carl on Jan 22, 2012 16:14:30 GMT -5
Can't see any good reason why they would dig holes into the ground hundreds of kilometers long just to put a insulated and expensive cable into the ground, when spanning it from pole to pole its cheaper and easier. And then some people would dig the cable up again because they were plowing a field or building an illegal building etc. etc. etc. One could use the cables as heavy duty rupes for bridges or such stuff. I think in the future everything is going to be a lot more centralized, at least population wise. Especially when we start running out of resources and personal transportation would become very expensive. New housing plans now have power lines underground. Wreck Age takes place very far in the future so it's not that much of a leap to suggest that things like power lines will be underground. I don't know the life span of a power line, but I imagine it'll need replaced sometime in the next two hundred years. Not that they'd be underground everywhere, I'm sure if you're in the middle of nowhere then you might have some above ground lines. |
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Post by Anton on Jan 23, 2012 4:38:22 GMT -5
Can't see any good reason why they would dig holes into the ground hundreds of kilometers long just to put a insulated and expensive cable into the ground, when spanning it from pole to pole its cheaper and easier. And then some people would dig the cable up again because they were plowing a field or building an illegal building etc. etc. etc. One could use the cables as heavy duty rupes for bridges or such stuff. I think in the future everything is going to be a lot more centralized, at least population wise. Especially when we start running out of resources and personal transportation would become very expensive. New housing plans now have power lines underground. Wreck Age takes place very far in the future so it's not that much of a leap to suggest that things like power lines will be underground. I don't know the life span of a power line, but I imagine it'll need replaced sometime in the next two hundred years. Not that they'd be underground everywhere, I'm sure if you're in the middle of nowhere then you might have some above ground lines. It will totally depend on the size of the community. For example, even though this Stitchmen community is technologically advanced, there's not a lot of people available to do things like dig power lines... It's much less labor intensive to put some poles in the ground, and run power lines on them. However, it's also much less secure, so someone might try to steal some juice from them...  |
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Post by Carl on Jan 25, 2012 22:57:12 GMT -5
I think in the future everything is going to be a lot more centralized, at least population wise. Especially when we start running out of resources and personal transportation would become very expensive. New housing plans now have power lines underground. Wreck Age takes place very far in the future so it's not that much of a leap to suggest that things like power lines will be underground. I don't know the life span of a power line, but I imagine it'll need replaced sometime in the next two hundred years. Not that they'd be underground everywhere, I'm sure if you're in the middle of nowhere then you might have some above ground lines. It will totally depend on the size of the community. For example, even though this Stitchmen community is technologically advanced, there's not a lot of people available to do things like dig power lines... It's much less labor intensive to put some poles in the ground, and run power lines on them. However, it's also much less secure, so someone might try to steal some juice from them... I was just referring to things that were established before the Exodus. Even then there are exceptions. |
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Post by Anton on Jan 25, 2012 23:08:30 GMT -5
Any time I entertain anyone from Europe, they always comment on how ugly our power lines are.
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Post by s1nn3d1 on Jan 26, 2012 2:45:04 GMT -5
American (northern and southern) power lines aren't "ugly" per se... they are inventive, maybe creative. What is really... REALLY ugly is the way the electrical installations in the houses are done.  And that's the automation technician speaking from the bottom of my heart |
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Post by ferk on Jan 27, 2012 15:10:45 GMT -5
Only problem I'm seeing with 'Wreck age' is being played out in this forum. People have a hard time connecting with a apocalypse that happens in the future. What's cool/fun/relevant about the 'apocalypse' is that the world we live in is forever changed and a new paradigm comes about that challenges us and alters the ' value' of almost everything around us. Wreck age right now, seems to be more of a sci-fi scenario, equivalent to Star wars or Firefly. That's cool and definitely playable, but I think it's important to remember that people like feeling the connection to everyday life. at least i do. Which is most likely why I never got into fantasy role playing and am not representative of your anticipated customer base.
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Post by Anton on Jan 30, 2012 22:08:53 GMT -5
Only problem I'm seeing with 'Wreck age' is being played out in this forum. People have a hard time connecting with a apocalypse that happens in the future. What's cool/fun/relevant about the 'apocalypse' is that the world we live in is forever changed and a new paradigm comes about that challenges us and alters the ' value' of almost everything around us. Wreck age right now, seems to be more of a sci-fi scenario, equivalent to Star wars or Firefly. That's cool and definitely playable, but I think it's important to remember that people like feeling the connection to everyday life. at least i do. Which is most likely why I never got into fantasy role playing and am not representative of your anticipated customer base. I think there's a lot of backstory that hasn't been revealed yet that will change your viewpoint on it being "too sci fi". There's definitely gong to be an element of that, especially down the road, but as we've developed things, it's turned into more of a post-collapse old west, with smatterings of tech, but focused on innovation. If you want to compare it to "classic" sci-fi, I think we fit in better there, but our emphasis is definitely not on 'tech' and 'special powers'. |
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Post by Carl on Jan 31, 2012 22:39:42 GMT -5
If you're going for straight out of Thunderdome post apocalypse, there is www.aberrantgames.com/warlands.htmlI think there is another post apocalypse game out there too that is heavy with the biker gangs and leather jackets. This happens a bit further down the line so it's not the same old setting. There's certainly a bit of that though. |
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Post by Matt on Feb 1, 2012 1:13:45 GMT -5
Luckily the miniatures will work with a more mad-max setting. Just add football pads.
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Post by Carl on Feb 4, 2012 23:55:51 GMT -5
Luckily the miniatures will work with a more mad-max setting. Just add football pads. And spikes. |
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Post by ferk on Feb 6, 2012 15:29:56 GMT -5
I downloaded, 'The Omen' this weekend and enjoyed it very much. The theme is much more apparent and I think it is still a very 'open' world where players can easily stumble across and make use of items and tech easily recognizable by us in this era.
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Post by demyztikx on Feb 6, 2012 20:05:49 GMT -5
Yeah, in The Omen there happened to be some old "junk" that came in use later for my group.
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Post by Carl on Feb 12, 2012 19:41:01 GMT -5
Yeah, in The Omen there happened to be some old "junk" that came in use later for my group. Care to elaborate? |
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Post by demyztikx on Feb 14, 2012 0:29:35 GMT -5
Yeah, in The Omen there happened to be some old "junk" that came in use later for my group. Care to elaborate? I don't want to spoil too much for anyone that hasn't played it, but there were some salvage my players were able to take and later traded it for something they needed. Not sure if it was written in the scenario or if I just let them do it because of how pathetic and confused they look though. |
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Post by loxley on Feb 20, 2012 5:03:40 GMT -5
I was watching some YouTube vids about synthetic biology (using genes to make different organisms). And it mentions designing seeds which grow into 'Tree houses'. Literally a tree u can live in. Here's the vid... www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD5uNAMbDaQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player also some interesting ideas for all u organ snatchers out there!! |
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Post by ferk on Mar 2, 2012 14:59:50 GMT -5
thats cool sounding. I just listened to the , 'Lies of Lock Lamora' a really cool fantasy book( on tape) and they had trees that grew into tables. getting there....
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Post by Matt on Mar 2, 2012 16:34:30 GMT -5
I read that book for a sci/fi fantasy book club I was in and wanted to light it on fire. To each his own I guess |
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Post by ferk on Mar 5, 2012 16:04:50 GMT -5
The audio book is great. I'm on the second one now. Anybody who sculpts or paints minis should really consider doing the audio thing. It's worth it.
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Post by demyztikx on Mar 5, 2012 22:41:07 GMT -5
The audio book is great. I'm on the second one now. Anybody who sculpts or paints minis should really consider doing the audio thing. It's worth it. I don't sculpt well, but I paint. I might have to do that next time. |
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