Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #26

[The Good Doctor]

And don’t worry, my slow ass spent several days on the beginning level.  There are a lot of people to meet and terminals to read. 

[ColonelKillaBee]

Game’s deep. Didn’t care much about the overlying theme until I met the people personally. 
 

And since I work in a plant, I really feel it  

[The Good Doctor]

Edgewater sapped my fucking soul.  You'll see even worse sides of the corporations going forward, but even as far as I’ve gotten, nothing has felt as oppressive as that damn town. 

[ColonelKillaBee]

@The Good Doctor

[TheCzarsHussar]

@The Good Doctor """"""French"""""""

[The Good Doctor]

 That line bumped him up to my favorite character.

"Is this fucking French?! I can’t fucking read French!"

[ColonelKillaBee]

That was indeed a moment  Damn Czar you slower than me  

 

Cant tell you how much I related to him when I heard that

[TheCzarsHussar]

9 minutes ago, ColonelKillaBee said:

That was indeed a moment  Damn Czar you slower than me  

 

Cant tell you how much I related to him when I heard that

I just started playing again today.

[TheCzarsHussar]

Potential spoilers? You two have already passed this point though.

From the tiny bit of exposition I got from Adelaide about Earth, I feel like we have ourselves an Issac Asimov situation. That is in the Empire and Foundation series of books, Earth is a lost planet that when the reader finally gets to see the planet in Foundation and Earth, it's a radioactive dead planet. I bet you that Earth is either lost to the maps or is a lifeless planet.

[The Good Doctor]

What a legend. The host was not at all ready.  

 

[TheCzarsHussar]

I lost my shit when out of nowhere someone mentioned Byzantium!

[ColonelKillaBee]

30 minutes ago, TheCzarsHussar said:

Potential spoilers? You two have already passed this point though.

 

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From the tiny bit of exposition I got from Adelaide about Earth, I feel like we have ourselves an Issac Asimov situation. That is in the Empire and Foundation series of books, Earth is a lost planet that when the reader finally gets to see the planet in Foundation and Earth, it's a radioactive dead planet. I bet you that Earth is either lost to the maps or is a lifeless planet.

 

Actually I read a terminal about that:

Earth is considered the center of this little space empire of theirs, and tho there was another Great War, it doesn’t sound like the planet is lifeless yet.

[ColonelKillaBee]

Actually it doesn’t sound like an Empire at all, more like a collective of human nations and corporations, lead by representatives. 

[ColonelKillaBee]

16 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

What a legend. The host was not at all ready.  

 

   

[The Good Doctor]

9 minutes ago, ColonelKillaBee said:

Actually I read a terminal about that:

 

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Earth is considered the center of this little space empire of theirs, and tho there was another Great War, it doesn’t sound like the planet is lifeless yet.

I believe the Great War was WW1, wasn’t it?

[BigBossBalrog]

2 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

I believe the Great War was WW1, wasn’t it?

Indeed. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

[The Good Doctor]

27 minutes ago, BigBossBalrog said:

Indeed. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

Right. And I think that’s what the game refers to as well, because after WW1 is where history really changes in TOW. Not sure if WW2 ever even happened, but it doesn’t appear that it did, and definitely no monopoly busting.

@ColonelKillaBee @TheCzarsHussar

 

There are a few characters who talk about the Board being dominant in Halcyon, but not the whole galaxy. They say that the Earth Directorate are the top dogs overall, and that even the corporations we see are only able to operate because they allow it. 

[The Good Doctor]

Would make sense for them to still just call it the Great War if there was no WW2. 

[ColonelKillaBee]

Ah I forgot the weird timeline 

[The Good Doctor]

1 hour ago, TheCzarsHussar said:

I lost my shit when out of nowhere someone mentioned Byzantium!

Why’s that?  Byzantium is the Board’s capital city. 

I haven’t been there yet, though. If it’s even a location you can go to. Biggest cities I’ve found so far are Groundbreaker, which is awesome, and Stellar Bay. 

[The Good Doctor]

2 minutes ago, ColonelKillaBee said:

Ah I forgot the weird timeline 

Yeah, between this and Fallout I get the impression that these guys are fond of that trope.  It is pretty effective, since it saves them from having to worry about history up to a certain point.

[ColonelKillaBee]

30 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

Why’s that?  Byzantium is the Board’s capital city

Just saying old historical names gets him off  all a girl has to do is say Megara or something and he’ll fall for her

[ColonelKillaBee]

[TheCzarsHussar]

1 hour ago, The Good Doctor said:

Why’s that?  Byzantium is the Board’s capital city. 

I haven’t been there yet, though. If it’s even a location you can go to. Biggest cities I’ve found so far are Groundbreaker, which is awesome, and Stellar Bay. 

I didn't know that. Byzantium was the Greek city that would later be renamed to Constantinople.

[The Good Doctor]

Just now, TheCzarsHussar said:

I didn't know that. Byzantium was the Greek city that would later be renamed to Constantinople.

We know.