Dovallis Martan JenusKoll
Osmon Surveillance
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Posted - 2015.03.26 05:41:00 -
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Nope. According to EvE lore...
All history of Earth was demolished when the gates collapsed. Technology took a massive dive, and they have been slowly rebuilding. Eventually, after their technology became sufficient, they found the ruins of earth starships etc, and salvaged them to learn the technology.
All of the technology they use has been "found" from one point or another, they didn't really develop it themselves. Every race are basically scavengers of some kind or another trying to make their mark in this arena of conflict.
It is highly unlikely that they learned of ecology, environmental safety, or even former earth aesthetics because they were given large leaps of which overrode many of the potential points where such things could have been learned. And with all these planets available, why preserve one planet, when you can just move to another? Turn subject planets into garbage yards, and not even bother with pollution standards. They found the technology to let them survive indefinitely in space, so why would a ruined atmosphere mean anything to them?
No doubt, that only the elite of the elite get to live in cities that are so open and under populated. But those cities would be HEAVILY engineered to fulfill a certain architecture style.
Most of the planets are war-zones caused by the masses of mini corporations vying for property and sales presence. You have to remember that unless it is one of the core home worlds, the governments really couldn't care less what happens on them.
As mentioned before, the only lands that would have such open architecture would be for the highly wealthy... which would mean a massive selection of personal armadas circling the planet ready to intercept even the smallest bug that would try an uninvited landing. If combat did happen to take place on the ground, there would have to be more crashed ships than buildings littering the landscape.
http://youtu.be/dtXupQg77SU
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Dovallis Martan JenusKoll
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.03.26 06:37:00 -
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Maken Tosch wrote:
In terms of modern inhabitants of New Eden, you're correct. But in terms of human history from the moment we first drew animals on cave walls back on Earth to the moment Dust Mercenaries and Eve Capsuleers dominate the cluster in New Eden, we have developed the technology ourselves. We just had to relearn it.
PS: Back on earth, it was believed that the first computer was developed during World War II. But archaeologists later discovered that the first real computer was developed by the Ancient Greeks long before the fall of the Roman Empire. Of course, the ancient computer was completely analog but served its function as a computer complete with input/output features.
Ehrm.... That's not quite an accurate way to look at this problem.
There is a MASSIVE gap between understanding how to get something to work by copying it's fabrication point for point, and understanding the reasons of WHY something works, and HOW this conclusion was expected.
For example, if a race of humans had crash landed on a planet on a ship full of subservient nanomachines... and they had a technology wipe like the EvE pioneers had, the populations might eventually figure out how to get the machines to build objects, and hence believe it to be a form of sorcery etc. As a result the population would never learn about biology, such as bacteria and viruses, and believe that exorcism is the cure for all ailments. (as in using the nanomachines to take care of things)
This same setup will happen for any kind of technology that one gets suddenly. We can see it in third-world countries around the globe, this very same pattern. People learn only as much as they need to build and use the item, but not anything regarding what the item actually IS.
Now, if you were to upscale that... to the massive degree that EvE has it... and it's an entirely different league of mislead assumptions and un-investigated logic. They can produce it, and they can use it, but their tweaking of the technology is clunky, and innovations are slow, due to the fact they have little understanding of what the core physics and mechanics were in the first place.
Piggybacking on technology that you only investigate as far as how to use, and slight improvements in personal use can have devastating effects. One such example would be the Sleepers. The capsuleers don't know they why or how about these entities, and yet they are still allowing such technology to be spread throughout their homes.
http://youtu.be/dtXupQg77SU
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