Okay, I'm liking the looks of Tyrosine, because it feels like a company, not a company-shaped mass of evil. Unlike Crey from CoH, which was pretty obviously evil, to the point of having armored guards around and having a disaster zone named after them. Other evil companies that come to mind (Lex corp) don't seem to do much other than fund their supervillain via magically conjuring money out of the economy. Tyrosine, however, seems like a real company, with real products, that legitimately exists and is well-liked. In fact, the company itself seems to be non-evil: no mention of buyouts, participating in espionage, or patent hogging. This appears to be a completely normal company with some conspiracy theorists. For all we know, it's legit at the top, too: Sure, there's a few kinks in the sister's history, but nothing that seems to be a big, black spot. This might be a completely above-broad company with some overeager middle managers.

I feel like, if Tyrosine were to fall apart, people would miss it. Sure, mainly rich people and advanced farmers, but still. I even like Tyrosine more than I liked Czerka from the Knights of the Old Republic games: Czerka was also a big, legitimate company. Sure, it was bloated and unusually corrupt, but it did some good. Now, in Kotor you respected Czerka because sometimes it felt like the galaxy was held together with Czerka-brand staples, but still.

Really looking forward to what might be done with Tyrosine. If done well, this could be amazing.

Lost Deep wrote:

This appears to be a completely normal company with some conspiracy theorists. For all we know, it's legit at the top, too: Sure, there's a few kinks in the sister's history, but nothing that seems to be a big, black spot. This might be a completely above-broad company with some overeager middle managers.

There is a lot of potential with such an approach that most games and stories miss. Large entities, from corporations to government institutions, are portrayed as either good or evil. Even when there is corruption within the entity, it's almost always something can be neatly eradicated or expunged. It'd be interesting if there were stories / arcs that supported NPCs (and even PCs!) who judged the whole barrel to be rotten due to a few bad apples.

And, really, how would a super-powered being who is all about the honor, but isn't too fussed about the law, deal with most corporate antics? How many corporations make, or have made, some big bucks by toeing the line of "it may be wrong, but it ain't against the law"?

This should be interesting.

ARE they evil? Or just morally ambiguous (I expect that from most comic based companies). IF they aren't 'evil', per se, are there factions within that are? While the CEO might not be Norman Osborn, do we have an enterprising Dick Jones (I just watched the original Robocop, yesterday) who employs the seedy, criminal underbelly of the city to further his own goals and ambitions?

Sounds to me like it's a great company to use in your 'origin' story.

Over in [url=http://cityoftitans.com/forum/origin]another thread[/url],

Cyclops wrote:

Where are the kick starter updates?

It would seem to be a good question, especially for those who get their CoT update fixes via KS. ^_^

And so, where over [url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/missingworldsmedia/the-phoenix-project-city-of-titans/posts/1330175]there[/url] is this update?

Shadow Elusive wrote:

(access to that account is also access to the money, so it's heavily restricted)

Ah, that explains a lot. Definitely an area in which Kickstarter could make a QoL improvement.

Radiac wrote:

In Titan City, genetically modified vegetable eats you. :)

Annoying Acquaintance: "What's that walking salad following you around?"

Me: "Her name's Audrey. Want a ... CLOSER LOOK?"

Audrey: "OM NOM NOM!"

Me: Grins evilly.

It's rare that any individual believes they're evil as usually there is some higher purpose that they some how use to justify the inhumane actions.

On that note, I really like the more subtle approach to this corporation which is a few steps back from Crey whom we loved to hate. God I hated them. :D

And indeed it is awesome to see this lore start coming out. I'm already looking around for fellow super heroes and making plans within plans. Anyone know where a lore wiki would be for COT or is it too early for that?

PaxImperium wrote:

And indeed it is awesome to see this lore start coming out. I'm already looking around for fellow super heroes and making plans within plans. Anyone know where a lore wiki would be for COT or is it too early for that?

We don't have access to the devwiki, unfortunately. We do have [s]Beamrider[/s]Steamtank's [url=http://cityoftitans.com/forum/rp-lore-cheat-sheet]Cheat Sheet[/url] with info culled from lore posts, and Winter's [url=http://cityoftitans.com/forum/kickstarter-update-reference-list]Kickstarter Update Reference List[/url]. And most of the players seem to be putting their characters' backstories in the [url=http://cityoftitans.com/forums/backstory]Backstory[/url] forum. ^_^

Ack! I must have misread the last post column for the O.P. name. I sit corrected!

Beamrider wrote:

SpaceMoose and I are the admins on the DevWiki; trust us,there's too much there for anyone to keep in their head.

And yet, some of us do have most, if not all (I'm looking at you, oh fabulous Continuity Lead), of it memorized...

Headaches from when all of the ideas get together to have a party and... conjugate?

Be Well!
Fireheart

ConundrumofFurballs wrote:

Fireheart wrote:
Headaches from when all of the ideas get together to have a party and... conjugate?
Be Well!
Fireheart

So *that's* where all those ideas keep coming from!

You sure it's not the printer in the back of her head getting jammed again?