On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Onno Meyer wrote:
Johannes replied to me:
Or they have something more similiar to a 3D printer. Thoose things might
be slow, either because they never were intended for mass production, it's
just all the production capacity, that still exists, or because the
Goa'uld don't know how to operate them properly (they never found the
"make n copies" field or the "create an other artefact" button, they
always shutdown the machine and start everything from the beginning) and
propably also because the technicans created specialist jobs, to press
certain buttons, in the name of job security.
They had thousands of years to count the buttons. More likely that
the production capacity is limited. The minifac from 3E UT takes a
year to replicate itself if there are no prefabricated parts.
If trying out buttons often comes at a cost (like loosing unreplacable
minifacs) then it is plausible, that not all buttons will be tried out.
And if they do not have the proper UI the minifac is supposed to be used
with, but only use some backdoor, intended for maintance by experts, who
know what they do, then many available buttons will render the minifac
effectivly unoperable by "scavangers".
In that case, you have the option of inserting a background changing quest
item, if you want that in your campain.
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