So... this is a thread about the Kickstarter update:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/missingworldsmedia/the-phoenix-project-city-of-titans/posts
Firstly, Go Captains!
Secondly..... Captains? Why?
Titan City Captains? I don't get it.
I don't understand why they're the picked on team.... why they're stigmatized into not being allowed to win...
the rules of the game don't change. and just like in the real world, the players on the team are NOT representative of the city they're in.
They're just a team. they have a budget, they hire what players they can.
It would be a LOT more likely that other teams would be unwilling to come to Titan City, and risk running into a villain attack (pehaps that has actually happened before.. ala Dark Knight Rises)
And, as such, if we're going to pretend that TC exists in the real world, and that these Captains need a reason not to appear at the Superbowl..... Make a new league....
a league with different rules that are more accommodating to more than normal humans...
Then The Captains can be "the best in their league" (after all, they are the mecca of Super types)... since most other markets don't have a whole lot of meta human pull.
And, to that end... I once again would like to suggest that there be two teams in Titan City.... a "North Bay" team, that gets all the press and publicity (New York Yankees) and a "South Bay" team that almost always loses to their northern cousins, but are fiercely loved by locals and those who root for underdogs (New York Mets)
I do wish I could "Get" the choice for the team name, The Captains. I mean, I know the devs could just come up with some reason why they got the name.... but.... I donno.
...I guess I just wish the name reflected the history of the city, or the game...
Call them the "Ozzies" (honoring Oswald Lawrence) or the "Paragons" (like the city ;))..... heck even just the "Heroes"..... ya know?
And then, make the South side team be more blue collar... the kind of guys who's pride the Gabby Cabbie would fight some north bay lawyer over:
"The Ironmen" (straight out of Ironport)
or
"The Steevers" (shot for Stevedores)
give us some cross town rivalry we can actually root for IN game.... not just an excuse to put blue and gold on some NPCs.... but a way to tell what part of town your in, just BY those blue and gold jerseys....
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