Takkatakka

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One thing I am thinking about lately is whether the game has to many LIs. Before you slaughter me, hear me out. Of course it's nearly impossible to choose 1 or even 2 LIs to remove, now that we all got to know and love all of them. But I think things would be different if there were only 6 LIs to begin with.
I wouldn't necessarily disagree here. Of course for Eternum the LIs are set and so far they've worked out very well. We'll see what Cari might do for his 3rd game. I personally think around 5 to 6 LIs would probably work out better and you could still have diverse enough characters to keep them all interesting while also keeping them unique.
 

1tomadeira

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One thing I am thinking about lately is whether the game has to many LIs.
I know it's very controversial, but let me know what you think about it!
No it doesn't.

There, I let you know what I think about it as you requested.

But jokes aside, I do believe the girls have a great balance and complement each other well. If we had girls that repeated the same goal, ok fine, I would agree. But that isn't the case at all. The girls are pretty unique in their way. You even have Calypso for the princess theme, I mean, who doesn't like princesses?
 

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I mean, who doesn't like princesses?
Me. The whole bitchy, haughty royal brat thing is boring as fuck. And her scene is the only one so far that I didn't like. Calypso is way at the bottom of dumpster-tier for me. I'd trade her out for Eva in a heartbeat. Hell, I'd probably trade her out for Maat.
 
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1tomadeira

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Upon further review, I have come to the conclusion that I would 100% definitely trade Calypso for Maat. Fite me.
Tastes are still tastes, so I won't say you're crazy as the guy above, but I don't know if Maat will accept it as well, if you say that you're going to 'fite'.

Anyway, just saying that not all princesses are like you mentioned, and Calypso's feelings were explained. It isn't like she's necessarily a bad person, but part of her culture, hence why she's opening up and helping Orion. She could still have refused if she wanted to, yet she didn't.

Anyway the way you're answering asking for 'fites' makes me believe you are simply trolling, but I'll refrain myself to avoid being possibly banned from the thread.
 

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Anyway the way you're answering asking for 'fites' makes me believe you are simply trolling, but I'll refrain myself to avoid being possibly banned from the thread.
No, I'm not trolling. "Fight me" (or 'fite' me) is a joke response to a disagreement on an internet forum. And that should have been really obvious, because how would we even fight, if we wanted to, two complete strangers on an internet forum?

As for Calypso's attitude having been explained, explaining it doesn't make her any more interesting. A one-shot side character we'll probably never see again is a better character, because she raised an interesting question about the moral implications of experimenting with the darker side of the human psyche in a controlled setting with no permanent consequences. (Because everyone thinks it's just a video game.) And her scene was hotter too.
 

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No, I'm not trolling. "Fight me" (or 'fite' me) is a joke response to a disagreement on an internet forum. And that should have been really obvious, because how would we even fight, if we wanted to, two complete strangers on an internet forum?

As for Calypso's attitude having been explained, explaining it doesn't make her any more interesting. A one-shot side character we'll probably never see again is a better character, because she raised an interesting question about the moral implications of experimenting with the darker side of the human psyche in a controlled setting with no permanent consequences. (Because everyone thinks it's just a video game.) And her scene was hotter too.
I feel like fighting for bossy girl's affection more lol
 

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Crazy/ Jetlagged & possibly 3 too many single malts theory time :

Episode 1 when Orion was in the bathtub hiding after cleaning whrnn Dalia came in?

Remember when he willed himself to disappear and it failed?

What if it didn't?

Recall sound when he closes his eyes and wills his disappearance?

Where else has that sound been used.....

Edit: Oh and in ch1 the price of the implant changes from $3500 to $2500 in the competition- someone may want to mention that so it gets fixed
 
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Dorfnutter

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Crazy/ Jetlagged & possibly 3 too many single malts theory time :

Episode 1 when Orion was in the bathtub hiding after cleaning whrnn Dalia came in?

Remember when he willed himself to disappear and it failed?

What if it didn't?

Recall sound when he closes his eyes and wills his disappearance?

Where else has that sound been used.....
...It's just a standard suspense sfx tho. Was used when Orion got shocked from seeing the first gem of doom as the prize for the Flink mystery and when Luna saw an illusion of her mom AND after Orion held her hand to snap her out of her shock (though I suppose the sudden handholding was in itself a form of shock to her system). :whistle:
 

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Final ramblings for tonight:

I found this line particularly interesting on replay :

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I mean, she basically oversees access to pretty much every server out there, so...given what we know so far maybe by "shut down" she means "I'm gonna block every player from accessing this world because Founder/Ulysses said so so tough luck...

...unless you have a hacker girlfriend that you've been railing to kingdom come who knows her shit then maybe I can, I don't know, look the other way while she "miraculously" gains access to the server you want to go to, if you catch my drift. :Kappa:"
 

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I mean, she basically oversees access to pretty much every server out there, so...given what we know so far maybe by "shut down" she means "I'm gonna block every player from accessing this world because Founder/Ulysses said so so tough luck...

...unless you have a hacker girlfriend that you've been railing to kingdom come who knows her shit then maybe I can, I don't know, look the other way while she "miraculously" gains access to the server you want to go to, if you catch my drift. :Kappa:"
I was thinking more She is responsible for all the funky shit happening on the servers like the alien invasion , allow access to Calypso's server etc
 

Takkatakka

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I was thinking more She is responsible for all the funky shit happening on the servers like the alien invasion etc
Could be, but I doubt it. The basic theme seems to be that the whole Eternum system is deteriorating more and more and starts to become unstable with whole worlds becoming uninhabitable.
 
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Dorfnutter

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I was thinking more She is responsible for all the funky shit happening on the servers like the alien invasion , allow access to Calypso's server etc
Could be. Could be that it's simply a natural response of the worlds themselves trying to deal with the intrusion of that many anomalous entities (that being the "players") when it probably didn't have to deal with that many before (if we go by William's infodump that those who visit Eternum via dreams seem to be doing it randomly instead of doing it on a consistent basis like Immortals can).
 

slackster

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Could be. Could be that it's simply a natural response of the worlds themselves trying to deal with the intrusion of that many anomalous entities (that being the "players") when it probably didn't have to deal with that many before (if we go by William's infodump that those who visit Eternum via dreams seem to be doing it randomly instead of doing it on a consistent basis like Immortals can).
Nah thinking too much into it - Chekov's gun and all that. Love stuff hidden in plain sight, has a nice symmetry to it

Edit: I wonder if she modified Orion to be 100% compatible for a nice twist ( prob not but fun to think about)
 
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