EVE Search - The Unlikely Collapse of Civilization in EVE

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Cutter John	Posted - 2004.08.20 09:52:00 - [1] Edited by: Cutter John on 20/08/2004 10:02:14 high technology requires an incredible amount of industrial infrastructure to maintain, even now. plus it favors centralized manufacturing.. i.e. their arent microchip factories in every city.. there are a few very large operations, that distribute these over a much broader area. why bother making a microchip company on your planet when you get weekly shipments from new eden? i find it entirely believable that most settlements werent able to maintain their level of tech. right now, how many people do you think could actually even begin to have a tiny idea of how to build a pentium 4? it took a LOT of effort by many many smart people to get chip technology to where it is today. and a LOT of machines. i admit, eventually they might possibly figure out how to make replacements if they had enough time and people.. but what if there were 50 vital things they recieved. suppose they need this little widget to make there fusion reactors work so they can get power, and it needs to be replaced yearly, but its manufactured in new eden and hasnt come in yet, then new eden blows.. now they have a year to try to reverse engineer 5000 years of progress and a very broad manufacturing infrastructure necessary to manufacture this puppy, or figure out an alternate power source. and if they fail... lights out. all of there tech is gone.. worthless piles of scrap metal. hopefully they had the foresight to print out hardcopies of important data.. like how to breed cattle and raise crops by hand. unless they didnt have paper. how much paper did you see in star trek? would they even know what paper was? thats why so many of those colonies failed. centralized manufacturing necessary for technology.. i'd bet most high tech items and spare parts were made in our galaxy or new eden and shipped. its easy to assume that.. look at how easy it is to get around in eve.. even figuring that this is a game and travel times are shortened greatly for gameplay purposes. although i do agree that 8000 years to recover to the point that a written history is maintained is far too long. i would say 1-2000 years would be better. its easier to reinvent.. because you know it can be done. possibly not though.. who knows how far it would decline before it reached a point the tech could be maintained. btw.. i think that one colony was self sufficient enough to survive with most of their tech.. the joves. just my opinion though My Idea Thread Give Drones Love!
Cutter John	Posted - 2004.08.20 09:52:00 - [2] Edited by: Cutter John on 20/08/2004 10:02:14 high technology requires an incredible amount of industrial infrastructure to maintain, even now. plus it favors centralized manufacturing.. i.e. their arent microchip factories in every city.. there are a few very large operations, that distribute these over a much broader area. why bother making a microchip company on your planet when you get weekly shipments from new eden? i find it entirely believable that most settlements werent able to maintain their level of tech. right now, how many people do you think could actually even begin to have a tiny idea of how to build a pentium 4? it took a LOT of effort by many many smart people to get chip technology to where it is today. and a LOT of machines. i admit, eventually they might possibly figure out how to make replacements if they had enough time and people.. but what if there were 50 vital things they recieved. suppose they need this little widget to make there fusion reactors work so they can get power, and it needs to be replaced yearly, but its manufactured in new eden and hasnt come in yet, then new eden blows.. now they have a year to try to reverse engineer 5000 years of progress and a very broad manufacturing infrastructure necessary to manufacture this puppy, or figure out an alternate power source. and if they fail... lights out. all of there tech is gone.. worthless piles of scrap metal. hopefully they had the foresight to print out hardcopies of important data.. like how to breed cattle and raise crops by hand. unless they didnt have paper. how much paper did you see in star trek? would they even know what paper was? thats why so many of those colonies failed. centralized manufacturing necessary for technology.. i'd bet most high tech items and spare parts were made in our galaxy or new eden and shipped. its easy to assume that.. look at how easy it is to get around in eve.. even figuring that this is a game and travel times are shortened greatly for gameplay purposes. although i do agree that 8000 years to recover to the point that a written history is maintained is far too long. i would say 1-2000 years would be better. its easier to reinvent.. because you know it can be done. possibly not though.. who knows how far it would decline before it reached a point the tech could be maintained. btw.. i think that one colony was self sufficient enough to survive with most of their tech.. the joves. just my opinion though My Idea Thread Give Drones Love!
Cutter John TARDZ Gods of Night and Day	Posted - 2004.08.20 09:52:00 - [3] Edited by: Cutter John on 20/08/2004 10:02:14 high technology requires an incredible amount of industrial infrastructure to maintain, even now. plus it favors centralized manufacturing.. i.e. their arent microchip factories in every city.. there are a few very large operations, that distribute these over a much broader area. why bother making a microchip company on your planet when you get weekly shipments from new eden? i find it entirely believable that most settlements werent able to maintain their level of tech. right now, how many people do you think could actually even begin to have a tiny idea of how to build a pentium 4? it took a LOT of effort by many many smart people to get chip technology to where it is today. and a LOT of machines. i admit, eventually they might possibly figure out how to make replacements if they had enough time and people.. but what if there were 50 vital things they recieved. suppose they need this little widget to make there fusion reactors work so they can get power, and it needs to be replaced yearly, but its manufactured in new eden and hasnt come in yet, then new eden blows.. now they have a year to try to reverse engineer 5000 years of progress and a very broad manufacturing infrastructure necessary to manufacture this puppy, or figure out an alternate power source. and if they fail... lights out. all of there tech is gone.. worthless piles of scrap metal. hopefully they had the foresight to print out hardcopies of important data.. like how to breed cattle and raise crops by hand. unless they didnt have paper. how much paper did you see in star trek? would they even know what paper was? thats why so many of those colonies failed. centralized manufacturing necessary for technology.. i'd bet most high tech items and spare parts were made in our galaxy or new eden and shipped. its easy to assume that.. look at how easy it is to get around in eve.. even figuring that this is a game and travel times are shortened greatly for gameplay purposes. although i do agree that 8000 years to recover to the point that a written history is maintained is far too long. i would say 1-2000 years would be better. its easier to reinvent.. because you know it can be done. possibly not though.. who knows how far it would decline before it reached a point the tech could be maintained. btw.. i think that one colony was self sufficient enough to survive with most of their tech.. the joves. just my opinion though

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