User blog comment:Tankswinger/The state of technology and influencing the wiki/@comment-10905876-20160816032000/@comment-24642271-20160816054236

But tell me Orion: do we need mega weapons and WMDs and warps and cloaking devices and planet killing lasers and stuff like that to make an RP work?

No you dont

But that is not the issue. Far from it.

The issue is that the technology is coming to a point when it makes or breaks a navy. And that was never the point of a BSCN RP. It should be a RP based on the power of the ships and the numbers of the ships because that is what the game is.

And you say that that is the reason why you push technology to the limits? That just opens Pandora's box with people making technologies to counter and then suceed other technologies instead of spending the damn time trying to make a new ship for the navy. By pushing technology further, you merely just convince everyone else to make technology like or similar to it and ruin the point of having power ships in the first place. Now, what is the point of building a mega ship armed with hundreds of guns when a small ship with technology like mega weapons and what not can just destroy it with no problems?

None.

Now, like you said, a complete ban of technology would be ridiculous. Some tech is fine and would be important to the RP to make it work. But all I ask is to get rid of the unnecessary tech or the tech that causes big ships to have no use at all. People who dont build powrful ships should have weaker navies, as they dont devote enough time like other people.