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--- rules:blueprints [2022/11/26 07:19]
aettles ↷ Page moved from start:rules:blueprints to rules:rules:blueprints
+++ rules:blueprints [2023/06/05 12:37] (current)
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-======Creating Blueprints======
+======Research & Creating Blueprints======
-The only way to craft equipment for yourself is by using a blueprint and suitable manufacturing equipment. The most common method is to 3D print parts for a device and then assemble it using the relevant skill. If players wish to enhance their kit with new technology uncovered at events then they will need to create the blueprint for the 3D printers first.
+Research and creating new blueprints follow broadly the same rules but with slightly different goals in mind.\\
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+Research is a purely theoretical endeavour that will not result in an item that can be crafted. Instead, it expands the knowledge players have available to them and creates new options for developing item blueprints.\\
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+A blueprint allows a new item to be built using a suitable crafting space.
+  Fred's cunning plan is to construct a whole new gun.
+  The idea is to superheat the bullet as it leaves the barrel to make a plasma gun.
+  He teams up with Bertha (a physicist) to make this happen.
+  Bertha carries out a research project to develop the necessary science to superheat materials into plasma.
+  Fred will then use that information to create a blueprint for a plasma gun.
 ====Stage 1====
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   He teams up with Bertha (a physicist) to make this happen.
   The game team determines that the science for a plasma weapon is solid
-  but still only theoretical so Bertha needs to spend 8 weeks testing it.
+  but still only theoretical so Bertha needs to spend 5 weeks testing it.
-  The first prototypes will need Fred's gunsmithing expertise and Bertha's science.
+  The first prototypes will need Fred's gunsmithing expertise, but Bertha's science work is done.
-  (6 weeks for Fred, 2 more for Bertha)
+  (6 weeks for Fred, 5 to create the blueprint, 1 to build the prototype itself)
-  Fred will then need to refine the prototype and finalise the blueprint
-  (another 2 weeks for Fred)
 =====Theoretical Blueprints=====
 Not all research work needs to end in a fixed product. Sometimes a character can work on a purely theoretical piece of science work. Such theoretical blueprints would be very similar to a published scientific paper in scope and style.
-  In the example above Bertha could have done her first 8 weeks entirely
+  In the example above Bertha could have done her 5 weeks entirely
   independently of Fred and just filed a blueprint for the theoretical
   science of superheating bullets.

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