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From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: SOTA
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:51:06 +0200
According to Marc Renouf, at 10:33 on 12 Jul 99, the word on
the street was...

> Actually, you'll note that there's no SOTA for firearms.

Okay, bad example (a classic case of typing before you think :)

> That's right, firearms never degrade. Body armor degrades, but with
> rapid advances in bullet design and technology, that's true even today.
> So shooting someone with an old pistol will have exactly the same effect
> on an unarmored target as shooting someone with a new pistol.

That only means I have to adjust my example slightly. Take an armor jacket
-- 5/3 armor, so it'll reduce the damage of a contemporary assault rifle
to 3M. After some time, this will be a 1/3 armor jacket, but the exact
same assault rifle is now only reduced to 7M. This does not feel right to
me...

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