Talk:Technology Level
Notes (2017)
TL-negative?
Offhand, I don't like it. Objectively: is there a reference for this? I've never seen a negative TL... and it is bound to be problematic as well, since a negative sign has traditionally been used to label tech levels (TL-6... is it TL6 or TL -6?). Rje (talk) 18:06, 9 October 2017 (EDT)
No worries. I really appreciate your feedback. You are at an intermediate stage between the really old guard and the newer guard. Your feedback is invaluable.
- Negative sign or dash? LOL
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 20:01, 9 October 2017 (EDT)
Time Travel?
Really? Rje (talk) 18:08, 9 October 2017 (EDT)
Will they never discover it in the Traveller universe? If they can hit the singularity then they should hit chronotaxis as well.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk)
chronotaxis (plural chronotaxes)
A list or table, sorted in chronological order, of people who held an office. Mostly used for the succession of bishops. - Wikipedia
We do have a chronotaxis of emperors of the Third Imperium. I would not be against a chronotaxis for the First Imperium.
However, the only time travel in Traveller is forward.
Rje (talk) 11:46, 11 October 2017 (EDT)
Original Material
Okay, there appears to be original material mixed in here, and I don't like that one bit. Rje (talk) 18:08, 9 October 2017 (EDT)
3-TL Groupings
T5 does this. Are we taking care to follow those groupings?
Yes. How well do you know those groupings?
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 20:01, 9 October 2017 (EDT)
Not well. I know where the pages are in the book. I certainly don't think in groups of 3 TLs.
Rje (talk) 11:50, 11 October 2017 (EDT)
What's with the funky names?
Some of the names are fine, but there's a lot of taxonomy going on here, and I really am not sure of the utility of them, and it looks like original material to me, which simply gets me worried.
Let's discuss. Glad that the ball is rolling.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 20:01, 9 October 2017 (EDT)
Really Really High Tech Levels
T5 has changed the upper TL uses. Essentially, above a critical TL, each sophont people sets a different path through the top TLs. I am not positive, but I believe this makes some specific technologies unavailable to those peoples.
Let's talk more and work on a concensus.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 20:01, 9 October 2017 (EDT)
Great. I will lean heavily on the T5 chapter on Technology. Rje (talk) 11:52, 11 October 2017 (EDT)
Chronological Periodization
Make sure this aligns with T5 please. Rje (talk) 18:13, 9 October 2017 (EDT)
Thanks for your feedback, Rje. Let's work on this. I used the T5 rough guidelines.
- Where do you feel that it doesn't align with T5?
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 20:01, 9 October 2017 (EDT)
Links (2017)
- External link: Interview with Orson Scott Card, Co-Creator of Extinct
- External link: Spacecraft – Low Tech
- External link: Spacecraft – High Tech
- External link: What is the highest tech level world you have created/encountered?
- External link: Technology Level Chronology
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 18:06, 3 February 2017 (EST)
Notes (2016)
- We should decide if this page is a Library page, hence does not make mention of rules, rule sets or other such real world items, or is a meta data base for the players.
- - Tjoneslo (talk) 11:25, 26 December 2016 (EST)
- Hi Thomas,
- 1. Would you please refer me to the library template you want used?
- I envision that many pages will have regular AAB articles (LE, or LEN) and some pages will also have dictionary entries (DE or DEN).
- I had thought that game mechanics and systems were not to be included and if it does it happen, it would be MET.
- 2. How do you want me to make language entries when Trokh and the others get entered in?
- Thanks and Happy Holidays, Thomas!
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 14:20, 26 December 2016 (EST)f
- The page includes notes like Traveller5 aka T5 has introduced a new theoretical maximum to the TL System of TL-33.. This is metadata information. I wanted to have an agreement before stripping these from the article.
- For 2, please see Manual_of_Style#Dictionary_Entries, or if you really don't like that, please put a note in the Forum so we create a good style.
- - Tjoneslo (talk) 14:59, 26 December 2016 (EST)
- Let's chat then. I see candid talk about TL's within a theme as being entirely canon... Strip out the T5 part and insert IISS...
- How do you want me to make the language dictionary articles? How do I use the language namespace you wanted?
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 15:51, 26 December 2016 (EST)
- The article name should be just the word. But include Dictionary: before the word. For example Dictionary:Ahriy. This article is formatted correctly as well.
- - 174.199.3.253 17:26, 26 December 2016 (EST)
- Thank you, Thomas.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 21:53, 26 December 2016 (EST)