A1-0 Low Hanging Fruit

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@Galaxiel

Well it doesn’t really call for the abolition of the megastructure limit, that was just something Maverick suggested. So yeah, that’s it’s own conversation.

Yes, but the two are related. Reading Maverick’s post, his opinion on that matter is that,

@Maverick

Realistically if we increase the plot sizes, megastructures would need to become necessary infrastructures and thus more susceptible to community feedback loop than any hard or soft cap ruling.

In other words, if we increase plot sizes megastructures just become structures.

I don’t think it’s all that unlikely that if the plot sizes are increased, the limit on megastructures would also be removed, or at least greatly increased. We shouldn’t be viewing them as completely separate matters, because we need to think of the broader impacts of the proposal before we decide to make such big changes to the canon.

@Galaxiel

a civilization might not be focused in advancing it’s technology at all for cultural or historical reasons, and/or might have grown complacent in it’s current state. After all, technology answers to necessity in most cases: an isolated nation with no external pressures to develop and advance it’s technology, would be much more likely to stop doing that if there isn’t an explicit cultural interest in doing so.

While yes, I agree that this could be true, I think it’s more of a matter of whether it is true. That question is best left to the people who have actively chosen to create nations with lower tech levels, rather than us.