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Heroic Knight
 
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| Poly plate and alu chain will become even more popular as players turn up with doctor's notes saying they can't wear real armour in case they succumb to heatstroke. Post-apocalyptic settings will decline in popularity, many considering them to be in poor taste. Aqua-LARP will take off in East Anglia, as naval combat becomes affordable for the masses and desirable (nay, necessary!) to run any kind of event in what were once the Fens.
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Champion
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Gelatine based prostethic make up and foam&latex weaponry will be replaced entirely by the gooey stuff secreted by cultivated seaweeds, which will also provide the fibres for the newer cheaper edible weapon cores we will be using (cemented together with the same gooey stuff in a different formula).
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Champion
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I imagine that the cost of transport and distribution will mean a move back towards manufacturing in this country, which would mean that compared to everything else we buy (which would cease to be dirt cheap and made in huge factories in the developing world) LRP weapons would actually be cheaper! 
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Prodigal
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| If anything the cost would go up with manufacturers charging for their time and punters not having the alternative of buying slave goods? Besides we'll be looting all the weapons from abandoned naval bases and sailing 'round in oil tanker galley's powered by slave rowers. I want one of those whaling harpoon guns- shit rate of fire, but boy do they look intimidating, you wouldn't want to be what that bloody big spear hit would you?
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There would be a rise in cost, but nowadays most things that you can buy cost little more than the materials it took to make them, whereas the lack of import and export in a post oil economy the cost of labour would be much higher. Since the cost of labour is already high on LRP weapons compared to mass produced third world factory goods, everything else that has production moved to this country will rise in price considerably, whereas LRP weapons will only rise a little as the cost already reflects them being made in this country.
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| We won't run out of oil in my lifetime. There are still vast reserves in Canadian Tar Sands, but the prohibitive cost of extracting it and then refining it have prevented that source been used before.
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| LRP weapons are already being mass produced in SE Asian, however getting hold of latex could be a problem (unless you start a rubber plantation). I don't think running out of oil would be the issue, so much as the public having access to oil products (either financially or because of controlled supply). But anyway back to light hearted- what about a giant submarine, (powered by teams of trained whales- who tow it and drive hydro electric turbines for internal power) which tours the world seeking out environmental criminals and killing them and is captained by a brilliant but amoral scientist.
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In response to the point about the Tar Sands, there are potentially massive reserves. But the energy return on extracting oil from tar-sands is one to one or less (ie it often requires more energy to extract the oil than you actually get). Extracting oil from tar sands is equivalent to extracting cocoa from chocolate cake. The fact that such barrel scraping measures are even being considered is a sign that oil supply is starting to dwindle. The only reason its even being considered financially viable at the moment is because the natural gas required is so cheap.
Incidentally it also involves massive landscape destruction and air pollution. It would be better that it doesn't get used, but should it, it would only produce a tiny fraction of the 76 million barrels per day we extract at the moment.
Incidentally I wasn't aware of the existence of mass produced LRP weapons. Latex will be more expensive certainly, but we had rubber products in the UK in Victorian times, and if our technology levels go back to the pre-victorian then I think LRP will be the least of our worries.
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Shven (5/12/2008)
There would be a rise in cost, but nowadays most things that you can buy cost little more than the materials it took to make them, whereas the lack of import and export in a post oil economy the cost of labour would be much higher. Since the cost of labour is already high on LRP weapons compared to mass produced third world factory goods, everything else that has production moved to this country will rise in price considerably, whereas LRP weapons will only rise a little as the cost already reflects them being made in this country.
This is true, but only in a non-true sort of way. Removing our ability to access cheap labour through importing goods from abroad would potentially cause massive increases in the prices of many modern manufactured items, as well as the raw materials needed to make the items. However this would feed through, causing massive inflation in the economy, because the people who currently sell their labour making LRP kit would need to earn much more money to pay for the rest of their lives, so the prices of these goods would also go up. Just not as much as the goods that we currently import.
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