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JeraxJerax Member Posts: 18 ✭
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Thought I'd make my own thread for lore questions, since I have one and I imagine others will too. Rather than make a thread for each one, we can keep them all in one easy-to-find thread so someone in the know ( @Aurelius ) can sate our curiosity if he has time!
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  • JeraxJerax Member Posts: 18 ✭
    My question! Are commsphere channels (e.g. faction channel) text or voice? I was under the impression they were text, which is why emoticons show up as emoticons instead of adjusting the sound like tells (subspace voice communication) do.
  • SqueakumsSqueakums Member Posts: 230 ✭✭✭
    I've always assumed it's a mix of text messages and voice notes. I'd be curious to see it's supposed to only be one of those. 
  • SqueakumsSqueakums Member Posts: 230 ✭✭✭
    Wuff said:
    (Faction): <Name> says, "Oh, I was referring to the <Topic>."
    You didn't actually say this though, you wrote it. I think the word is not used literally all the time. But maybe in this case it is!

    Sorry for double post, editing previous comments is buggy on my phone.
  • KaxKax Member Posts: 102 ✭✭✭
    edited January 2019
    I'm hoping it's voice. I'd prefer to not have a bunch of lmao :D o/ uwu on faction chat. 
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  • ThessiaThessia Member Posts: 60 ✭
    I don't understand why tells support emoticons but faction channels don't and it's really bothering me and I hope it's a bug.
  • FyrelFyrel Member Posts: 61 ✭✭
    edited January 2019
    I can't see why its input would have to be text or why its output format would have to be the same as its input. I usually treat it like it's a sort of filtered thought dictation. Your brain sends messages to your mindsim, and its displayed as a sort of transparent chat window in your retinal implants or mindsim lenses when you pull it up. The reason you wouldn't get emoticons is because most people don't THINK in emoticons. I assume they don't, anyway.

    P.S. I'm happy there's a thread for lore questions in general. I'm going to ask so many silly questions here you have no idea.
  • VegaVega Member Posts: 75 ✭✭✭
    It wouldn't make sense if it were text since I assume it works the same way as tells, since tells you can use emoticons and ** to add expressiveness to it. So maybe it just hasn't been added or perhaps it is to show that there is a lot of information being sent and therefore we don't pick up the nuances with our mindsims in there? But it's a good question!
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  • ArsentarArsentar Member Posts: 120 ✭✭✭
    I am pretty sure its voice. It doesnt make sense if its text. Thats my headcanon and I am sticking to it.
  • SqueakumsSqueakums Member Posts: 230 ✭✭✭
    Arsentar said:
    I am pretty sure its voice. It doesnt make sense if its text. Thats my headcanon and I am sticking to it.
    I don't even disagree, but you feel strongly enough about this that I'd love to hear your reasoning if you don't mind explaining. Why wouldn't text make sense? 
  • MatlkaelMatlkael Member Posts: 347 ✭✭✭
    When I think, I hear my thoughts, I don't read them. Is this common? Am I crazy? 

    :(
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  • FlipilariaFlipilaria Member Posts: 128 ✭✭✭
    I always assumed it was some kind of radio. If it's not, I'm in big trouble. Because I've been doing my character's accent on channels this entire time!
  • ArsentarArsentar Member Posts: 120 ✭✭✭
    edited January 2019
    Squeakums said:
    Arsentar said:
    I am pretty sure its voice. It doesnt make sense if its text. Thats my headcanon and I am sticking to it.
    I don't even disagree, but you feel strongly enough about this that I'd love to hear your reasoning if you don't mind explaining. Why wouldn't text make sense? 
    When you do FTON while already having it on, it says 'You are already listening to faction communication.'
    When you do FTON while having it off, it says 'You will now listen to the conversation of your faction.'
    When you do FTOFF, 'You tune out of the conversation of your faction.' 
    When it is already off, it says the faction is already muted.

    Beyond that, its just simply more interesting to me if FT is one big radio party instead of an In-character in-universe chatroom.
  • CrorrCrorr Member Posts: 64 ✭✭✭
    Matlkael said:
    When I think, I hear my thoughts, I don't read them. Is this common? Am I crazy? 

    :(
    If I make an effort to do so, I think verbally. (Usually if I exhale while forming a thought I'll 'hear' it) if I'm not making that effort, but I'm talking to someone, I hear my thoughts almost at the same time as I start to speak. If I'm making a Herculean effort I can visualize my thoughts, in an abstract sort of way, usually after I've been staring at a text-scroll for a while, or have been consistently writing.
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  • MattiasMattias Member Posts: 9 ✭
    I tend to think it's vocal, but filtered through the dictation of your mindsim, like Fyrel was saying. That's why I actually speak in a slightly different tone/accent from when Mattias physically speaks. The tone is a little bit more formal and clean-cut as opposed to his more rural patter.
  • ArsentarArsentar Member Posts: 120 ✭✭✭
    Doesnt make sense to be filtered because people read exactly what you type, though.
  • bairlochbairloch Member Posts: 373 ✭✭✭
    I assumed text. Multiple channels almost demands it. You can't have multiple voice channels in real time. Not if you want to understand what's happening in any of them. I assumed we've got some sort of internal HUD with our mindsim and we see it just like we do on the screen. Easiest way for me to understand it. WYSIWYG
  • FyrelFyrel Member Posts: 61 ✭✭
    Arsentar said:
    Doesnt make sense to be filtered because people read exactly what you type, though.
    When I said filtered, I meant it didn't write down every single thing you think and post it on public broadcast, unless you specifically meant to do that. The reason it probably isn't vocal input is that nobody can hear you talking through tells or channels they're not in, even if they're standing one foot away, thus the reason for this sort of mental filter.
  • FyrelFyrel Member Posts: 61 ✭✭
    For a completely different series of questions, are there multiple "schools" of fury combat and the player characters all just use the same basic "umbrella" school, or are there no schools at all?

    Is there a void kith counterpart somewhere that isn't playable?

    Do all characters playing as furies have to use the same two-handed bastard sword kithblade shown in the art for the fury class, or can they safely describe themselves as using shortswords, glaives, or any manner of similar slashing (kith)blade?
  • FyrelFyrel Member Posts: 61 ✭✭
    I realize they exist. I was more asking if it was kosher to describe yourself as using them.
  • AureliusAurelius Administrator Posts: 467 Starmourn staff
    Fyrel said:
    I realize they exist. I was more asking if it was kosher to describe yourself as using them.
    Sure, but at the same time, you are actually only using one kind of weapon right now. (Plans to expand in the future.)
  • AureliusAurelius Administrator Posts: 467 Starmourn staff
    Fyrel said:


    Is there a void kith counterpart somewhere that isn't playable?


    Not a direct counterpart, no, but Starmourn is a massive place with dozens of cultures. The Corran mute void-powered shocktroops are, while not a direct counterpart, maybe something of what you're thinking of. 
  • PollivarPollivar Member Posts: 115 ✭✭✭
    There's a void-kithblade using army in the Selassian fort in Fort Ixsei. The Ormrarr specifically is called out as using a void kithblade!
  • NykaraNykara Member Posts: 118 ✭✭✭
    Aurelius said:
    Fyrel said:


    Is there a void kith counterpart somewhere that isn't playable?


    Not a direct counterpart, no, but Starmourn is a massive place with dozens of cultures. The Corran mute void-powered shocktroops are, while not a direct counterpart, maybe something of what you're thinking of. 
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  • RazzyRazzy Member Posts: 27 ✭
    What are SIC Insurance Agents on that makes them seemingly invincible?
    And where can I get some?
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  • CrorrCrorr Member Posts: 64 ✭✭✭
    Frankly my assumption is that they're just convincing looking holograms bring projected over Ultarine robots with several-inch thick body plating. This is the future, with the technology to do that. And spacers are known to be a bit...passionate about their ships.
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  • FyrelFyrel Member Posts: 61 ✭✭
    Scoundrel themed lore questions!

    Do scoundrels have some manner of targeting reticle in our retinal implants that's linked to our pieces like the smartlinks in Shadowrun, or are we just really good shots?

    Speaking of pieces, is the ammunition some variety of dangerous (unstable, for instance) and that's why we can't swap out until the mag is empty?  Also as best I can tell from the lack of a slide or ejection port, as well as the "shellspill"  ability, we're wielding something akin to space revolvers that use pre packaged throw away magazines that double as heat sinks. Am I way off the mark? I'm picturing something like the PKD from Bladerunner, with some extra doodads on. Or maybe it's meant to be up to our imagination on how they work. Dunno. Maybe I'm dumb for applying modern firearms knowledge to future guns.

    Also our jetpack mods are described as illegal, but illegal to whom? Just the manufacturers, or is there a sector-wide flight authority we're collectively irritating?

    More silly questions!
  • ArsentarArsentar Member Posts: 120 ✭✭✭
    There are probably standard flight regulations across the sector when it comes to jetflights. Probably like there's standard regulations regarding hovercars and the like. I assume its called illegalmods because they contravene said standard regulations.
  • PseudoLoneWolfPseudoLoneWolf Member Posts: 4 ✭
    I would think that most ranged weapons have some sort of neuralink, it just seems like something that would be a matter of fact given that we have the level of tech that exists in the setting. However, in my own headcanon, a neuralink sight would most likely automatically aim towards center mass, making sure you land the shot but not necessarily making sure that it's a fatal one. It's more important to the targeting reticule that you hit your mark rather than hit your mark right in the flakkin' corneas. If you're a good shot though, you can disable the link and aim manually - maybe you'll miss, but if you're any scoundrel worth your marks, you'll hit somebody where they aren't expecting.

    For what it's worth re: PIECE, every bit of flavor text that I can find points towards it being a space revolver, so I'm not sure why we can't reload when it isn't empty. IMO, it would make sense if Quickload was the default boring reloading skill that only reloads, and is usable outside of combat, but the other reload combos can't be used because they're attacks and require a target.
  • SlanderSlander Member Posts: 176 ✭✭✭
    If I remember correctly (not a Scoundrel any more) eject says something about PIECEs being designed to disallow non-empty reloading. Some kinda safety feature. 
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  • FyrelFyrel Member Posts: 61 ✭✭
    saturnine said:
    If I remember correctly (not a Scoundrel any more) eject says something about PIECEs being designed to disallow non-empty reloading. Some kinda safety feature. 
    Yes, this. That's why I'm asking about it.the only reason I can think of for that safety feature, possibly because I'm horribly uncreative, is that the shells are at least mildly dangerous on their own outside the gun.
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