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11 years ago
By the "safe pilot" logic double nukeing a com should grant victory regardless of what army he had left. Same with an active outlaw near comwreakage and other nasty hazards.
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11 years ago
"What's next? A love story starring a garbage collection robot?"
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11 years ago
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By the "safe pilot" logic double nukeing a com should grant victory regardless of what army he had left. Same with an active outlaw near comwreakage and other nasty hazards.


if it has perfect cloak, perfect defence i not that incredible

But in any case what’s with all the nitpicking? A world can either have space-lesbians fighting each other with huge robots for no good reason or it can have a 100% realistical story but NOT both (at least not at our current level of civilization, there is still hope for the future on this front).
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11 years ago
awsome beard, licho.
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11 years ago
"Everyone who likes a backstory of robots with feelings, get out of the room."
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11 years ago
robot+feelings has been done WAAAAAYYY to many times.
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11 years ago
somekid: That's because it's awesome. Also it hasn't been done as many times as humans with feelings now has it?
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11 years ago
Kinda hard to have humans without feelings. Unless they're SPHESS MAREENS.
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11 years ago
And WALL-E has too many robots with personality. Less love, more death.
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Kinda hard to have humans without feelings. Unless they're SPHESS MAREENS.


What do you mean they don’t have feelings? They may not have much variety, yes, but the feelings that do have are of such intensity that they can bend the rules of reality allowing for both human and mechanical limitations to be transcended, sometimes in quite spectacular ways.


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And WALL-E has too many robots with personality. Less love, more death.


I remember about 2 robots with actual personality in that movie (if I stretch the notion of personality quite a lot) and a death toll of several billion humans and trillions of other life forms… did you see some kind of pink Christmas edition or something?
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11 years ago
I HAVE FOUND IT!!!

In this galaxy there are no more humans, there are only… TAX COLLECTORS , the last functioning piece of a once vast empire the fully automated field agents of the “ministry of wealth” are still enforcing taxation on worlds long dead, to fund an empire long gone

Or if you want it to be less depressing, they are doing it in order to maintain the VR infrastructure where humanity has logged itself in and forgot to log out (because it seemed more real that actual reality),… until You awaken, and must decide…
Will you let the last of humanity remain trapped in the dream while you become galactic emperor of the machines, or of a new humanity made in your image?
Will you try to secure admin rights and log back in with unlimited power thus becoming the god of a virtual world?
Will you try to awaken those who remain and push civilization forward?
Will you try to find all server nodes just to watch them burn by your hand as the weaklings realize they cannot escape the darkness?
Will you ever be certain this is not just another layer of the VR?
Are you truly human? Or just an anomalous NPC?

Regardless of who or what you are and what you decide to do, it seems the system wants you “reintegrated” and other dangers may await even beyond that….
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11 years ago
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I remember about 2 robots with actual personality in that movie (if I stretch the notion of personality quite a lot) and a death toll of several billion humans and trillions of other life forms… did you see some kind of pink Christmas edition or something?

That's what I meant.
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robots cant have feelings, they can only mimic feeling. if you say something like "what if we determine its feeling with a random number generator?" that also would not betrue feeling because it is impossable to compute a truelly random number.
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11 years ago
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simulacrum concept

So, a carbon-based replicating nanotech robot can't be sentient either, right? :P
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11 years ago
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it is impossable to compute a truelly random number.

There's hardware chips that measure "true" random processes, e.g. temperature fluctuation. Your argument is invalid.
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11 years ago
What makes your feelings more real than those of a robot (or an animal?)
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So, a carbon-based replicating nanotech robot can't be sentient either, right? :P


us self replicating silicon based nanotech robots usually call these things meatbags...
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USrankZag
11 years ago
My question is, why go with a "Last human left" story-line when you could easily create a much more interesting story-line based on PW? There are political issues, people to have emotions over, and actual drive to the story over just fighting robots and looking for human artifacts as far as I can tell. Was there more planned for the current story-line than I am aware of?
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11 years ago
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My question is, why go with a "Last human left" story-line when you could easily create a much more interesting story-line based on PW?

The planned story is already based on PW: the robot factions you meet are the same as (or based upon) the ones in PW.

As for "why isn't it specifically set during the PW period?", several reasons, but these two should be adequate for now:

1) PW is quasi-historical - it's already happened, outcomes and all. This places limitations on the events that can happen during our campaign, and gets in the way of the storytelling we want: a player free to shape the galaxy, to (re)build zir own galaxy-spanning empire in zir image.

Of course, fan campaigns or even single missions set during the PW are always welcome.

2) Sak says "screw your boring human politics with its humans fighting humans for no reason."
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USrankZag
11 years ago
Regardless, I am exited to see how the campaign turns out.
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