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Thu, 03/09/2017 - 13:06
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Discuss: What you Know Downtown
I like the Comments Section and it's toxicity level rating. It really tied the whole post together, like a good rug.
I hope there will be elaborately molded skyscrapers for us to perch upon.
Another great piece. I can't wait to find out who the ePunk Radicals are.
[hr]I like to take your ideas and supersize them. This isn't criticism, it is flattery. I come with nothing but good will and a spirit of team-building. If you take what I write any other way, that is probably just because I wasn't very clear.
To be honest, I have largely ignored lore updates to this point, in no small part because I like to learn the lore gradually as I play. But something about this one caught my attention. The connected skyscrapers and "vertical city" section in particular seems promising--I'm excited to see what this looks like! Especially in the context of an Aether Pirate raid...
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I'm the same, on both points. Maybe there's something about this update that conjures detailed pictures of our new city in our minds. It's like having a dream that we're actually playing CoT.
I don't suppose MWM could provide any actual shots of this neighbourhood in whatever state of development it is at the moment?
Also, if we're going to have more of this type of update, it might be nice to have a city map with a sort of zoom or highlight over the area being discussed, as they often do on tv news.
Spurn all ye kindle.
So, what was the area called before the fire?
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+1 to all of this.
FIGHT EVIL! (or go cause trouble so the Heroes have something to do.)
The "comments" section cracked me up.
Who the heck has time to pose on some tall building waiting for a photographer to take a picture?
Unless someone asked. Hint, hint.
The CapeChasers and the comments really make me wonder how the city will interact with and reflect our characters.
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Yes, I'm looking forward to seeing what the cape chasers have to say about our own characters.
[hr]I like to take your ideas and supersize them. This isn't criticism, it is flattery. I come with nothing but good will and a spirit of team-building. If you take what I write any other way, that is probably just because I wasn't very clear.
"Nothing to see here. Please move along."
-- Hoshiko Fujieda, delivery specialist, Ninja Burger
[i]Has anyone seen my mind? It was right here...[/i]
Ever notice you never see Personman and Shadow Elusive at the same time?
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Person man, person man
Hit on the head with a frying pan
Lives his life in a garbage can
Person man
Is he depressed or is he a mess?
Does he feel totally worthless?
Who came up with person man?
Degraded man, person man
Triangle man, triangle man
Triangle man hates person man
They have a fight, triangle wins
Triangle man
-- snippet from They Might Be Giants, "Triangle Man"
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Read enough Facebook and you have to make Sanity Checks. I guess FB is the Great Old One of the interent these days... - Beamrider
I thought that track was called "Particle Man"?
Triangle Man just beats everyone else in a fight, though he never went up against Universe Man.
edit: BTW, did you see the interview where Hugh Jackman asked Patrick Stewart who would win in a fight: Professor X or Captain Picard? Stewart said there wouldn't be a fight, because those two would find a peaceful way to work out any conflict. :-)
Spurn all ye kindle.
Serves me right for posting this late at night.
Technical Director
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Understandable. Triangle Man certainly gets more air time in that song.
Spurn all ye kindle.
Rumor has it that Triangle Man is acute fella.
(insert pithy comment here)
That was more of a Pythagorean comment than a pithy one.
Spurn all ye kindle.
I dunno... More often than not when I debate with him, he's so certain that he's right, but really he's just being obtuse.
Name: Safehouse
Ranger: Gunner
Primary: Force Blast
Secondary: Atrophic Aura
Tertiary: Kinetic Melee
Travel Power: Parkour
Status: Traveling. Following rumors of a huge city in Massachusetts that is teeming with supers.
I've found you can always confuse him by using circular logic. Blows his mind!
FIGHT EVIL! (or go cause trouble so the Heroes have something to do.)
Thread properly derailed. We now return you to your regularly scheduled topic some 8 or 9 posts above.
(insert pithy comment here)
Who knows what the future might bring soon! ;)
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There must be a requirement for the use of the word "soon" with some regularity.
(insert pithy comment here)
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The Comments Section style reminded me of the Shadowrun 5th Ed source book strategy of trying too hard to make it look like there is some 3rd party commentary or discussion (when all it does is clutter everything up and make it harder to actually find pertinent information). If this is a whimsical tact that appears once in a while, fine. If it permeates everything everywhere it is going to piss me off.
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I agree - I thought the same thing - and it's been going on since 1st edition.
...but I disagree here. I think it ads a very valuable in-universe viewpoint to the subject at hand. Though I will agree that it could get a little much at times with PAGES of conversations between characters, most of it is pretty brief.
The thing about these comments is that they are not interspersed into the body of the text update - they are at the bottom after all the pertinent information. You therefore choose whether or not to read them. If "they are going to piss (you) off", then simply don't read them. Easy peasy.
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Let's not forget that the entire Cape Chasers concept is a wikipedia style information being added by contributors who are everyday people in Titan City. It is a work of fiction meant to represent that, not a documentation by the MWM devs. I believe MWM chose this format more for the color than for anything else. I suspect it's far more interesting and entertaining when it is delivered this way, rather than as a dry encyclopedia entry.
If all you really want is a factual brief of the various neighbohoods, you are going to have to wait for our own [url=http://cityoftitans.wikia.com/wiki/City_of_Titans_Wiki]CoT wiki[/url] to get populated. Because I get the impression that MWM is going to make us wait to actually [b]play[/b] the game to get the real details and stories behind things.
[hr]I like to take your ideas and supersize them. This isn't criticism, it is flattery. I come with nothing but good will and a spirit of team-building. If you take what I write any other way, that is probably just because I wasn't very clear.
I like the comments as well, but they definitely need to be kept short.
On the other hand, I really liked the background book they wrote for [url=http://shadowrun.wikia.com/wiki/Source:The_Universal_Brotherhood][i]Shadowrun: Universal Brotherhood[/i][/url] way back when.
[i]Has anyone seen my mind? It was right here...[/i]
Soon©
I cannot speak of inside information :p Let's just say that something exists and is going through final refinements last I checked. A matter of connecting some assets together mostly.
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Robots you say? Interesting...
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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"Something", ehh? I've been hoping we would have access to something for the longest time. Huzzah!
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Can't wait to scale the Liberty Building, I wonder how tall it will be? Sears Tower tall? Burj Khalifa tall? Or taller?
I accidently ate a bowl of radioactive soup....ok I guess that makes me a Soup-er Hero
That line of thought (if you don't like it, shove your head in the sand) does not solve anything.
Like I said, if it isn't used all over the place it is fine with me. If they use it on everything (and I mean everything) it will deter people from reading up on the game. The comparison to Shadowrun was made on purpose. They have that style of banter commentary on every facet of the rulebook. They also mix in lore/history with character generation, rules, gear and everything. It bulks up a 200 page rulebook into a 450+ page sourcebook. It doesn't help that they have incomplete rule sets and exceptions and cross references. Trying to find anything specific can get frustrating.
Think about it this way. This was one update that briefly covered one small section of town and it mostly alluded to past events in generic detail. Let's say they did an update for every single section of the city, then all of the sections for the other cities/areas. If each one had this style of banter commentary, it would get a little cumbersome. Now consider if they incorporated the banter as a 3rd party observer to all of the lore, all of the powerset descriptions and all of the game mechanics (it would get old real fast).
When you look at one update at a time, the comments are kinda neat. Now what happens if all of the updates have a commentary and they aggregated all of the updates into a single info dump on the game or a wiki? That is when comments would essentially be interspersed into the body. That is what I was talking about (permeating everything everywhere). To go even further, if the comments go meta and they actually start talking about game mechanics and use specific terminology it can make string searches annoying and possibly mislead the user.
"Just, well, update your kickstarter email addresses, okay? Make sure they're current?" - warcabbit
I am mostly just pissed off about the Shadowrun sourcebooks. This update (a very small sample) reminded me of the 3rd party observer banter that the Shadowrun books employ. I like the commentary because it can add to the culture/universe without just beating you over the head with a sign that says "this is important, maybe you should investigate". I never said that the Comments approach was total trash and should never be written like that, comma, you idiot. I simply expressed my displeasure with over using that tactic, as it has negatively impacted my experience in another game system.
"Just, well, update your kickstarter email addresses, okay? Make sure they're current?" - warcabbit
@Planet10, I was going to write a long spiel about how Shadowrun was a poor example because while it was a rulebook and rulebooks are supposed to be clear and concise but this is a color piece and it is supposed to be colorful and entertaining. I was going to say that Cape Chasers are not meant as references. The "Welcome to Titan City" is the reference section and that doesn't have any of the commentary...
but I would be wrong if I said all that.
Because the What We Know about Downtown is not a Cape Chasers. Sure it includes a Cape Chasers bit, but it is primarily a neighborhood reference just like the other neighborhood references in the Welcome to Titan City webpart. It is quite inconsistent with the other content found therein because it is the only neighborhood that has a Cape Chasers portion.
So while I was all set to disagree with you, I actually agree with you that while faux blogs filled with eyewitness accounts, speculation and hearsay should be full of entertaining color, references should be clear and concise. I think MWM would do well to split the Cape Chasing section from the rest of it and make a separate Cape Chaser entry.
[hr]I like to take your ideas and supersize them. This isn't criticism, it is flattery. I come with nothing but good will and a spirit of team-building. If you take what I write any other way, that is probably just because I wasn't very clear.
For some reason this made me think: "To shreds you say? Tsk tsk tsk..."
Name: Safehouse
Ranger: Gunner
Primary: Force Blast
Secondary: Atrophic Aura
Tertiary: Kinetic Melee
Travel Power: Parkour
Status: Traveling. Following rumors of a huge city in Massachusetts that is teeming with supers.
THE SMILING BANDIT STRIKES AGAIN!
To help understand, two of our Moguls actually asked for a replica of the Burj Khalifa...... and Liberty is still taller.
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Read enough Facebook and you have to make Sanity Checks. I guess FB is the Great Old One of the interent these days... - Beamrider
I think Cape Chasers is fine as a "post-credits gag" as long as it stays referential without being authoritative. Inside jokes, meta-references, and foreshadowing are fine, but they should all point toward an "official" source eventually. Maybe a better example would be M'aiq The Liar from The Elder Scrolls. You never once get a quest or exposition from him, but he's always good for an invisible dragon joke or a fishy stick reference.
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Wow! That's awesome! Can't wait to see it. Thanks for answering my question. It will be cool to look down on Titan City from there.
I accidently ate a bowl of radioactive soup....ok I guess that makes me a Soup-er Hero
And here I was thinking of the 1st edition Samurai Handbook with all kinds of weapons in it, which ironically had a bunch of [i]deckers[/i] commenting on the sales pitches for weapons on each page. One of the more memorable ones was for a light submachinegun ... "Now I can flatten light ammo against body armor faster than ever before!" ... and another was for a man-portable anti-materiel cannon ... "Grade A bang-bang!"
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General purpose heavy machine gun? And I always thought the purpose of heavy machine guns was pretty well defined.
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Ah ... so you've read (and remember) the Street Samurai Sourcebook ...
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Read enough Facebook and you have to make Sanity Checks. I guess FB is the Great Old One of the interent these days... - Beamrider
You must, must, must place those two buildings somewhere in the bush. Imagine all the Tower of Pisa style photos of heroes holding up one of them in his hand...
I really enjoyed some Worm content on spacebattles.com comprising mock forumite comments about super powered activities in Brockton Bay. It seems these threads grow organically with the original poster trimming anything not fitting the theme or style. I've no doubt this happens far more widely than I am read. I look forward to player content Cape Chasers.
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If the "Cape Chasing" title is supposed to indicate that what follows is on the Capechasers website, then InUrDatabase's comment is still referring to the non-Capechasers section.
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