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Inferi
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((This was a quote that I thought I should at least mention. Follow the link if you want to))
Yeah, I think I was confused with the power source from Sky Knights, which if I remember correctly was basically a substance with 99.9% perfect energy conversion. For some reason, I imagined that crystal tech would be very similar. I still don't quite understand it, to be honest. By what I understand currently, it sounds like the crystals are like batteries with a lot of power, or maybe a generator that makes a lot of power,
and this matrix thing both consumes that power and also manipulates it in fantastic ways.
I don't understand what the matrix is, nor does, and why it isn't/can't be used to make the bullets do weirder things than go faster. It's not that I have my heart set on it, but that I don't understand why that isn't so.
On one hand, this is something that feels like it should be hand waved, but on the other hand I'm very confused. :/ Part of me wants to scrap my current character concept to make a character that deals exclusively with crystal tech's intricacies like a magic user would to create what amounts to spells, but I don't think that would end well of either of us
My character concept that I was originally going with was a guy from Verania that got drafted into the war and afterwards became a crystal tech gunslinger in and around Nalis, which is what draws him into the thread's narrative.
The problem I see with this is if crystal tech guns are really just traditional guns + (rather than laser guns or gun with fire bullets or something), then a crystal tech gunslinger would just be a traditional gunslinger +, and then that's basically a knockoff of Azi's character minus the superstitious aspect, which is kind of neat.
I think the best answer is maybe for me to just go to sleep, and maybe something will click. I've been up too long. This post took me an hour, and I didn't even get everythi 404 SIGNATURE NOT FOUND
((This was a quote that I thought I should at least mention. Follow the link if you want to))
Yeah, I think I was confused with the power source from Sky Knights, which if I remember correctly was basically a substance with 99.9% perfect energy conversion. For some reason, I imagined that crystal tech would be very similar. I still don't quite understand it, to be honest. By what I understand currently, it sounds like the crystals are like batteries with a lot of power, or maybe a generator that makes a lot of power,
On one hand, this is something that feels like it should be hand waved, but on the other hand I'm very confused. :/ Part of me wants to scrap my current character concept to make a character that deals exclusively with crystal tech's intricacies like a magic user would to create what amounts to spells, but I don't think that would end well of either of us
My character concept that I was originally going with was a guy from Verania that got drafted into the war and afterwards became a crystal tech gunslinger in and around Nalis, which is what draws him into the thread's narrative.
The problem I see with this is if crystal tech guns are really just traditional guns + (rather than laser guns or gun with fire bullets or something), then a crystal tech gunslinger would just be a traditional gunslinger +, and then that's basically a knockoff of Azi's character minus the superstitious aspect, which is kind of neat.
I think the best answer is maybe for me to just go to sleep, and maybe something will click. I've been up too long. This post took me an hour, and I didn't even get everythi 404 SIGNATURE NOT FOUND
14-Jul-2017 08:08:26
I edited the bio('s) for obum - I feel they'll fit the setting better than Wilhelm. Looking back, Wilhelm's proportions were WAYYYY off - not that anyone ever reads the appearance section of a bio anyway
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14-Jul-2017 12:29:49 - Last edited on 14-Jul-2017 12:30:57 by Westenev
Fysyx
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I don't understand what the matrix is, nor does, and why it isn't/can't be used to make the bullets do weirder things than go faster. It's not that I have my heart set on it, but that I don't understand why that isn't so.
Main reason? The technology hasn't advanced that far yet. As I said, I'm not denying that such things can/do exist, but they aren't anything anybody but top-security experiments would have access to.
Fysyx said :
On one hand, this is something that feels like it should be hand waved, but on the other hand I'm very confused. :/ Part of me wants to scrap my current character concept to make a character that deals exclusively with crystal tech's intricacies like a magic user would to create what amounts to spells, but I don't think that would end well of either of us
I guess I'm just bad at explaining...or maybe I'm visualizing something and describing it differently. I think I mentioned somewhere that it does allow usage of spell-like stuff, i.e. magic, but that can't yet translate into firing through a typical weapon because the spells take time to charge/cast and it would just be more inefficient than firing a bullet.
Fysyx said :
The problem I see with this is if crystal tech guns are really just traditional guns + (rather than laser guns or gun with fire bullets or something), then a crystal tech gunslinger would just be a traditional gunslinger +, and then that's basically a knockoff of Azi's character minus the superstitious aspect, which is kind of neat.
Yeah, I really should have been clearer. The main difference why crystallis tech firearms are so much better is because they require a lot less maintenance, they're faster to reload, and the crystallis activation propels the bullet faster and with more accuracy than the standard black powder.
Sadly, those differences make little difference for PCs. Done in by the dubious doings of destiny.
I don't understand what the matrix is, nor does, and why it isn't/can't be used to make the bullets do weirder things than go faster. It's not that I have my heart set on it, but that I don't understand why that isn't so.
Main reason? The technology hasn't advanced that far yet. As I said, I'm not denying that such things can/do exist, but they aren't anything anybody but top-security experiments would have access to.
Fysyx said :
On one hand, this is something that feels like it should be hand waved, but on the other hand I'm very confused. :/ Part of me wants to scrap my current character concept to make a character that deals exclusively with crystal tech's intricacies like a magic user would to create what amounts to spells, but I don't think that would end well of either of us
I guess I'm just bad at explaining...or maybe I'm visualizing something and describing it differently. I think I mentioned somewhere that it does allow usage of spell-like stuff, i.e. magic, but that can't yet translate into firing through a typical weapon because the spells take time to charge/cast and it would just be more inefficient than firing a bullet.
Fysyx said :
The problem I see with this is if crystal tech guns are really just traditional guns + (rather than laser guns or gun with fire bullets or something), then a crystal tech gunslinger would just be a traditional gunslinger +, and then that's basically a knockoff of Azi's character minus the superstitious aspect, which is kind of neat.
Yeah, I really should have been clearer. The main difference why crystallis tech firearms are so much better is because they require a lot less maintenance, they're faster to reload, and the crystallis activation propels the bullet faster and with more accuracy than the standard black powder.
Sadly, those differences make little difference for PCs. Done in by the dubious doings of destiny.
14-Jul-2017 12:46:38 - Last edited on 14-Jul-2017 12:47:11 by Inferi
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