TL - Revision history

Cholmondely: Added note

2025-06-23T22:57:40Z

Added note

2025-06-23T16:36:04Z

‎The Dark Side: Added note on TL99

2024-08-15T09:02:27Z

‎Links: Added another

2024-05-29T06:24:14Z

Tweaks for readability, added note on "Dark Side TL"

2024-04-14T17:50:53Z

‎Links: Added another

2024-02-29T03:32:39Z

Updating BB links

2023-01-05T10:09:11Z

Minor Tweak

2023-01-05T10:03:56Z

Detagged as Help category ("Technology Level" is already tagged).

2021-11-11T15:25:46Z

Added link to Ian Bell's site for Space Opera RPG

2021-10-11T17:53:38Z

‎Concept: Added link

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−	[[File:Teraed2.jpg\|right\|thumb\|[[Sector1/Teraed\|Teraed]] (TL of 12)]]	+	[[File:Teraed2.jpg\|right\|thumb\|[[Sector1/Teraed\|Teraed]] - as textured by [[Povray Planets]] (TL of 12)]]
	The Technology Level of the Planet/System in question.		The Technology Level of the Planet/System in question.

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 Note that as regards programming (''eg''. [[Equipment.plist]]s), you need to add "1" to the TL there as the programming TL starts at 0!
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 == Links ==
 *[[Economics]]

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 *[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21022 BB Discussion] (2021)
 *[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17629 A discussion of GalCop technology.] (2015)
 *[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=113258#p113258 Episodic minor variations in TL (2010)]
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 == Concept ==
 === Space Opera RPG (Role-playing game) ===
 Click here: [http://www.elitehomepage.org/archive/a0000020.png 1980 RPG "Space Opera" Rulebook Vol 2 p78 detail] - link from [[Ian Bell]]'s website
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-== Significance ==
+== Significance of TL ==
-=== TL, politics & economy ===
+=== (1) TL, politics & economy ===
 Generally speaking, in the [[Vanilla game]], the highest TL systems tend to be highly industrialised corporate states. The lowest TL systems tend to be poor agricultural anarchies.
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 This can, of course, be upended by such OXPs as [[Famous Planets]] which relabels Sori as [[Ascension]], a new TL16 anarchy in the bottom right-hand corner of Galaxy 1!
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-=== Equipment available ===
+=== (2) Impact on availability of Equipment ===
 In-game, TL determines what you can purchase at your local Orbital Station shipyard on the [[F3 page (ship outfitting)]].
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-=== Commodities available ===
+=== (3) Impact on availability of Commodities ===
 There is no change in the [[Vanilla game]] as to whether you can buy computers at a TL1 industrial system! Well... industrial TL1's don't exist as adumbrated above, but you get the idea!
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 == Links ==
 *[[Economics]]

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 *[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21022 BB Discussion] (2021)
 *[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17629 A discussion of GalCop technology.] (2015)
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 :TL7-9 is the "Middle Technology Epoch", possessing increasingly advanced technologies including space travel, advanced computers, and increasingly dense cities
-(I'd estimate that present-day Earth is maybe TL7).|Source=([http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=269635#p269635 Disembodied])}}
+(I'd estimate that present-day Earth is maybe TL7).|Source=([https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=269635#p269635 Disembodied])}}
-''From a discussion on the ability to show city lights on the night side of planets with Oolite v.1.90: note that Technology Level was inherited (unchanged) from [[Classic Elite]], which was [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=35949#p35949 influenced by the Traveller RPG].''
+''From a discussion on the ability to show city lights on the night side of planets with Oolite v.1.90: note that Technology Level was inherited (unchanged) from [[Classic Elite]], which was [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=35949#p35949 influenced by the Traveller RPG].''
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 == Links ==
 *[[Economics]]
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21022 BB Discussion] (2021)
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21022 BB Discussion] (2021)
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17629 A discussion of GalCop technology.] (2015)
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17629 A discussion of GalCop technology.] (2015)
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	*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17629 A discussion of GalCop technology.] (2015)		*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17629 A discussion of GalCop technology.] (2015)

−	[[Category:Factual~~]] [[Category:Help pages~~]] [[Category:Concepts]]	+	[[Category:Factual]] [[Category:Concepts]]

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	== Concept ==		== Concept ==
		+	=== Space Opera RPG ===
		+	Click here: [http://www.elitehomepage.org/archive/a0000020.png 1980 RPG "Space Opera" Rulebook Vol 2 p78 detail] - link from [[Ian Bell]]'s website
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		+	=== Traveller RPG ===
	{{QuoteText\|Text=Using [https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Technology_Level Traveller] as a guide,		{{QuoteText\|Text=Using [https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Technology_Level Traveller] as a guide,