Welcome to the EIGHTH week of technology for Dawn Season 3! We are aiming for at least 30% reduced rage and anger with the technology process this season, so hopefully you enjoy the new system. If you haven't read "How 2 Tech", you really should go do that. Same with the new "NPCs, Expansion, Writing, And more!", which contains some important updates to the tech system starting this week (more slots!).

Here is the tech Catalogue. ONLY USE THE FIRST PAGE! The others are various collections of all techs researched in S1, or previous attempts at sorting them. There may also be some errors in the first page, so be wary of that. We are still working on adding techs and overhauling early boat designs, so don't be surprised to see activity there.

Also, instead of everyone individually getting a tech sheet, we are having one Master Tech Sheet, with a tab for every player! There are a lot of tabs, so they are organized by claim number. If you don't have your old techs on there, I will not approve your tech until they are. Also you should add any trade partners you have to the box.

/u/Tamwin5 is still in charge of techs, and /u/Supacharjed is joining me as an tech helper here. Please ping both of them on your research posts (you don't need to ping me, as I already get a notification for replies here).

As ongoing policy, if you are late (after 11am EST next Monday) with your first submission of your techs (requires ALL your techs AND the rp for them), the penalty will be that you lose your A slots. Since A slots are the most RP intensive, I like to think I'm just making your lives easier for you <3. If you know that you will likely be late on tech for a reason ahead of time, send me a pm, you should be fine.

This week, everyone has 2 A slots, 5 B slots, and 10 C slots, plus the bonus slots from Writing if applicable.

For stealing techs, please state the name and number of the cultures you are stealing from, before your RP paragraphs, so that we don't have to search for it. It makes our jobs much easier.

Also if you want to research a secret tech, please give a plausible, practical reason in your RP why and how the knowledge remains secret. Note that even then, we won't necessarily approve your tech secrecy; that doesn't mean that we dislike your secrecy RP, just that we don't think it's sufficient to prevent the spread of any knowledge of that tech over the several hundred years that it takes for spread points to accumulate.

At the end of your tech post, put a blurb describing how your culture is influenced by the cultures that you steal techs from. It doesn't need to be a full RP, just a simple list or bullet points of things is fine. I just want to make you think about the implications.

If you have already made posts illustrating this happening, or want to write a full post about it, just drop a link.

While this won't be required every week, if you go more than one week without mentioning something, Tech Mods will glare disapprovingly at you. You have been warned.

LET THE TECH COMMENCE!