On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Johannes Trimmel <[email protected] > wrote:
> Assuming there are no missing link designs between spears and "Jaffa > riffles", which would be most likely happen if the tech was originally > imported, rather then developed, propably at first the Jaffa riffles were > scare and only a small portion of the Jaffa could get them, the other Jaffa > got ordinary spears. If Jaffa riffles were disguised as spears, then > gathering intelligence regarding how many riffles there are at all and > where the troops with them are gets harder. > > The Goa'uld seem to be very set in their ways how things are supposed to > look. They might favour designs of new equipment, that looks like the old > one does. They find it irritating, if the Jaffa now carry equipment that > looks different, so if the advantages of that are not great, they avoid > that. > > the general concept is called 'design fixation'. In other words, weapons have always looked like spears, so they should continue to look like spears. In some domains, it doesn't even occur to people that there are solutions that don't look anything like what they've seen before. Such a scheme may make them vulnerable to new strategy and tactics. > Though overall i would consider SG a setting, where how things are > supposed to look trumps internal consistency > That too, of course. -- David Scheidt [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
