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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kugar" data-source="post: 224843" data-attributes="member: 442">I like the mini production idea!If a PC sent this letter to superiors in my game I'd love it.  The elves are teh perfect people too.  I'd say a 100 year feasability study/risk accesment would be called for. An elven craftsmen might sponsor more "risk intensive" research.  The technology could be kept away from the general world while allowing the PC to see his ideas in action.As for the technical side - (I'm a ChemE so take this with a grain of salt) - their are problems with the production, but I really see it speeding manufacturing time.   Metal could easily be re-worked/annealed in sections using burning hands/create water and similar magics.Fixing flaws would probably be better than starting from scratch.If it worked in small scale it will not nessecarily work in big scale.  When we talk scale up, there is more involved than just geometry.  This can lead to big problems.  A 1/12 scale working steam engine might not work at full scale - pressures will be off and may even blow up the pressure vessel.  At first, stick to non-moving no-energy type structures.  Spare parts:  If the small scale does work then spare parts are still a pain.  Before interchangeable parts and the factory, EVERYTHING was hand made to fit together.  Sorry no insta gears or springs.Here is an idea - what if you alloy shrunken steel with mithral?  What would it look like expanded?Oh and mining?  How about shrinking the ore and then refining it?Don't forget the oppisite side of the coin.  Magically enlarging material and making accurate small scale items.Shrunken production might take many many years to perfect this type of process, but the rewards would be phenominal.  I am so stealing this idea.  Remember you control the world and the player controls the character.  Elders might not persue the idea and change the world, but one elf can.ttfn (sorry for the rambling)Kugar</blockquote>

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