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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goodsport" data-source="post: 2812289" data-attributes="member: 1550">Another nice thing about 2300 AD is that different parts of its universe are differently-themed (though that's probably true of all the games listed in the poll):<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Core worlds (i.e. Earth and Alpha Centauri): Very developed, with large metroplexes dominating much of both planets.  Metroplexes and big cities fully or partially cyberpunkish, though the rest of each planet is pretty cozy and quiet.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">French Arm: Most extensive and developed of the three Arms (not surprising, since France had pulled out of NATO just prior to the start of the Twilight War in Twilight: 2000, pretty much stayed out of the fighting and escaped the war relatively unscathed while the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.* and allies pounded each other with nuclear weapons - by 2300, France is the superpower).  Its far reach comes at a price, though, as it has extended into the violent Kafers' space. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /></li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Chinese Arm: Lots of smugglers and pirates.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">American Arm: Unlike the other two Arms, many inhabitable planets are too far out of range for current stutterwarp drives, so much attention being paid on how to solve that dilemna.  Less development means more frontier worlds (not in a cowboy sense ala Firefly, but simply in a "fend for themselves" type of way).</li> </ul>I hope that helped. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-G* 2300 AD's Earth/Cybertech Sourcebook was released in 1989, yet stated that in 2300 there'd be Russia (not the U.S.S.R.) and that its second-largest city would be the St. Petersburg (not Leningrad, as the city was still called in 1989) Metroplex.  Two years later (in real life), the U.S.S.R. (or at least most of it) became Russia again, and Leningrad once again became St. Petersburg. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> ... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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