| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | Magical SOTA? |
| Date: | Thu, 5 Oct 2000 11:40:20 +0200 |
was...
> It isn't SOTA that it is now all of a sudden there. It is SOTA because
> others now understand it.
"State of the art," as I understand it, means "The best way we know how to
do it." In a way, that would make 50-year-old tech (or magic -- I could
quote Arthur C. Clarke here, but I won't :) SOTA as long as nobody has
found a better way. However, that does mean something is SOTA the moment
it first appear, not when others understand it (they may only say it's
SOTA once they understand it, but that's not the same IMO).
As far as SR magic is concerned, just about all the examples given would
have existed in the game world long before FASA published the rules for
them (and, in many cases, long before someone behind the scenes thought of
them). But that doesn't make them SOTA, it just makes them a new item for
players to mess around with...
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