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Author Topic: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC and NEW PLAYER INFO  (Read 2346926 times)

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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC and NEW PLAYER INFO
« Reply #28500 on: February 11, 2016, 12:28:13 am »

I assume because many people aren't watching all the threads. Or just aren't as enthused.

Or maybe because when everything's special, nothing is.

I think you're very special, Devastator!

Do you want us to dress up a character for you to play choose your own adventure?
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« Reply #28501 on: February 11, 2016, 12:35:13 am »

As long as there is no biological basis, yeah, that should work. We don't know how the masks react to dimension hopping though
I'm hoping most if not all of our space magic that works through specific arrangements of matter fail. Because otherwise that presents a bit of an issue, doesn't it? They are a symptom of our universe's instability, so seeing them still work in a universe we plan on escaping to would be a definite cause for concern.
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC and NEW PLAYER INFO
« Reply #28502 on: February 11, 2016, 12:41:47 am »

I assume because many people aren't watching all the threads. Or just aren't as enthused.

Or maybe because when everything's special, nothing is.

I think you're very special, Devastator!



Do you want us to dress up a character for you to play choose your own adventure?
Put on your robe and wizard hat, because we're entering a magical realm!

Are we getting better at universe guessing or just blindly flailing into alien multi-dicks?
We're getting better at receiving the alien multi-dicks.
Thats a pretty good summary of the game in general, me thinks.




By the way, I found a good image for the top of the wall of remembrance page on the wiki



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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC and NEW PLAYER INFO
« Reply #28503 on: February 11, 2016, 12:45:49 am »

The magic school bus?
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC and NEW PLAYER INFO
« Reply #28504 on: February 11, 2016, 06:56:11 am »

Magic realm? Sorcery! Aka the game where you can throw rocks at the elderly?
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC and NEW PLAYER INFO
« Reply #28505 on: February 11, 2016, 07:55:43 am »

By the way, I found a good image for the top of the wall of remembrance page on the wiki

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When you put that up, could you maybe also update the wall with all the new dead, if you find the time? We have quite a few. Could use the char page of the wiki to help you remember who it was and how they died: http://einsteinianroulette.wikia.com/wiki/Character_Index#Dead
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC and NEW PLAYER INFO
« Reply #28506 on: February 11, 2016, 09:25:12 am »

I think you're very special, Devastator!

Do you want us to dress up a character for you to play choose your own adventure?

Dunno.  You think you could manage to allow a character that doesn't have to read armoury pages or look at stats?  Empirical data only?
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC and NEW PLAYER INFO
« Reply #28507 on: February 11, 2016, 10:11:25 am »

https://xcom.com/xcom-2-stats

Apparently 2/3rds of soldiers die to "Collateral damage"

Seems about right.

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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC and NEW PLAYER INFO
« Reply #28508 on: February 11, 2016, 10:35:28 am »

I think you're very special, Devastator!

Do you want us to dress up a character for you to play choose your own adventure?

Dunno.  You think you could manage to allow a character that doesn't have to read armoury pages or look at stats?  Empirical data only?

Doing Hep universe exploration might fit into that. Especially if you do it manually! No time to look at the armory if the electrons in your body are spontaneously being converted into antimatter.
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« Reply #28509 on: February 11, 2016, 11:18:45 am »

Put on your robe and wizard hat, because we're entering a magical realm!
I can't wait. Also, very relevant.
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« Reply #28510 on: February 11, 2016, 12:22:04 pm »

Dunno.  You think you could manage to allow a character that doesn't have to read armoury pages or look at stats?  Empirical data only?

Doing Hep universe exploration might fit into that. Especially if you do it manually! No time to look at the armory if the electrons in your body are spontaneously being converted into antimatter.

The fun for me would be making people describe the ridiculous, broken gear without using the shortcut of the cop-out names or analogies.

Hep universe exploration would either be me doing nothing, or me solving all the problems for you guys by going at them hammer-and-tongs.  I haven't gone over all of them in detail, but some of the problem universes look very fixable by applying scientific principles to it.  Spiders, for one.  There's some potentially interesting problems, but I don't see much of a payoff in fixing them for you.

It might be fun to design all my own gear, but I don't know what the point is to that, in a universe ruled by power-creep and indescribable magic artifacts.  If I can describe it, it will likely be worse than anything 'magic', because...  ?  It also wouldn't be fun because it wouldn't be special.  Anything I make that is allowed to function would be available to the guys who broke the universe, where it would be immediately misused.

I think the only thing that might be fun (other than playing the opposing side and killing you all), would be a character made by you guys, with zero OOC information.  No wiki, no stats, no equipping, I just get stuff and examine it personally, because the names are meaningless.  Reading mission briefings just makes me sad, reading armory items makes me sad, whipping up stats makes me sad, etcetera.  There might be a little fun with examining something and asking a basic question about it's design here and there.
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC and NEW PLAYER INFO
« Reply #28511 on: February 11, 2016, 12:33:45 pm »

https://xcom.com/xcom-2-stats

Apparently 2/3rds of soldiers die to "Collateral damage"

Seems about right.
Wow, nobody beat the game yet? I haven't even gotten the game yet, but I expected some obsessed person to finish the game in a day or two by playing 48 hours straight. Guess it must be a relatively long and/or challenging game then, at least in veteran and above difficulties. I'll have to try it when I get some free time. Probably wait a while for them to patch it and get some good mods out.

Also, while I appreciate the "damages caused" counter, I am disappointed there is no "civilians killed" counter next to it. Or some sort of easter egg or ridiculous combination of occurrences counter.

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« Reply #28512 on: February 11, 2016, 12:48:52 pm »

I don't believe nobody has beaten it.


Also, so many windows jumped through.
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC and NEW PLAYER INFO
« Reply #28513 on: February 11, 2016, 12:53:06 pm »

I don't believe nobody has beaten it.


Also, so many windows jumped through.
Well, true. I bet those statistics are only for copies of the game that have been bought or otherwise "properly" acquired. Or maybe there's an option in game to turn off reporting statistics.

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« Reply #28514 on: February 11, 2016, 01:47:45 pm »

Despite having posted before, only now I found time to catch up. And I see now that we have to use the Radio Chatter thread, so I'll leave a link in the mission thread for whatever intraparty communication I post there.
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