Durakken

je_saist. You're simply wrong. People are who they are because of their pasts and the world is created from their past. As already said, it is near impossible to have anything near what the world is like if it doesn't follow the same path up until a divergence point. In this case Sometime after Cole becomes an incarnate.

The Nazi party before Hitler was a noname political party that had very little support. It was Hitler's rhetoric that pushed Germany back to war and such. Without hitler you have no 3rd reich and no Nazi Germany and no WWII... thus no Reichsman. Even if Cole supported germany and took control of it it would not have been called the 3rd Reich.

So to accept that Cole became Reichsman you have to given him a reason of how he went from his origin and path to what he became which it just doesn't fit. Even if Cole accepted the Nazi party, which I could see happening given his past, his Cole's personality leans more towards the world, and not any individual or single entity which was caused by him searching for Well of Furies. Reichsman attitude is subservience to a nation which doesn't fir his MO.

For Reichsman to exist Cole would have to suddenly start hating Jews for no apparent (as of yet known) reason. I very much doubt that would happen as Cole was well traveled and likely accepting of cultures by that time and not to mention grew up in america and already viewed Germany as the enemy.

I have read through that arc info, but it strikes me as weird that Reichsman is Reichsman... From what we know of Cole's history this is how his life must've been...

Cole joins the military during WWI
Cole becomes incarnate...
Cole becomes Statesman...
Cole is injured during WWII during d-day.
The Axis powers wins.
Cole becomes Reichman.

This would indicate a betrayal of some sort or a weakness of character in Cole as we know he is "invulnerable" and super strong which means he can more or less take down all of the Axis Army alone... So what caused him to become Reichsman... A staunch patriot that fights for america to becoming the biggest supporter and pretty evil character that is Reichsman.

Maybe mind manipulation? Weakness of Character? Cole just likes the Nazis?

What are your thoughts?

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@durakken

so some pages are up and info is being put up...so now i need feed back on these... as they are more or less templates...

Primal Earth Page: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/User:Dur...e/Primal_Earth
Primal Earth Marcus Cole Page: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/User:Dur...th_Marcus_Cole

Also... please take a look at the multiverse, races, and technology pages and tell me what you think...

And last... any idea on the powers and archetype sections... The powers section should probably have info on Origins of powers and a list of the basic powers and how they manifest...

it wouldn't take away from sales or anything like that people v.v

Onlive is not a "host" for server.

What Onlive is is a set of High End machines that streams their video output to a client and recieves input from that client...So what would be happening is the following...

Output: CoH Server -> CoH Client-OnLive Server -> OnLive Client
Input: OnLive Client -> OnLive Server-CoH Client -> CoH Server

It's a middle man...

What are the pros of this system?
If you have an decent internet connection (which most of us have) but a older PC then you get higher graphic quality due to the video card is just displaying a prerendered image which was processed and rendered by superior machine.

What are the cons of this system?
If you have a high end PC you'll be lowering your overall because the PC can already handle the processing and such and the middle man server makes the overall connection slower.

Who benefits from this system?
People who have an ok or worse PC and an Ok to great connection. Basically the better your PC is the worse the deal is, but the Worse your PC is the better the deal is... This makes it ideal for people who want to run games on non-gaming PC rigs and things like iphone, iPad, Nettops, Netbooks, laptops, etc... In other words... the demographic that CoH seems to be grabbing a lot of people from and the average CoH player.

The problem with OnLive is that the demographic it is going for is the demographic that will likely never hear about it as they aren't too into games to hear the news and frankly i'd prefer it if it were built into my handhelds and consoles i already have to improve things like the PSP's connection to the PS3.



As far as someone who has messed with it...one of the G4 people said they had gotten an opportunity to mess with a bit and there was almost no lag, but that should be taken with a grain of salt as they were running off dedicated servers with noone else on them near or at one of their hubs apparently.



And as far as 'keeping CoH alive after the servers close' I can see a way to do that pretty easily with the tools they have given us and it would just take a programmer with a little know-how, and care to make it work. But not allowed to talk about things like that so mums the word

I think it would be easier for the idea, but harder to round up the info...

I need a name for this >.> maybe something like City of Lore or Portal Corp or Vanguard Files.

So it seems people would like it so... Rick are you going to get CoHTitan to do it cuz that is what it sounds like where this is going...

When I say origins I mean... It would be great if we could somehow get specialized "origin" mission and things for a our character...

But i don't know how much over stepping the player created story this would be able to go.

I was thinking something like...when you create your character you are asked a number of questions like "what was your past like?" "Where did your name come from?" "are you rich?" And from those questions create a mission or set of missions that show you go from being a normal person to deciding to get your license or going into the line of crime.

This would then set up a
Personal archvillain
Personal Base (based on richness etc: if you're rich you get option of mansion or something.. or if your poor you might get an apartment like in spiderman and his amazing friends or like the clocktower)

Obviously with the above there needs to be an offset of some sort for those who just are min maxers and all go with rich... Maybe have something to do with inf/prestige or other various stats or powers.

Seems like too much work for a regular booster but not enough to base a whole issue around on it's own... and has a bunch of how to balance and how far to push it. Though i think the basic idea if the questions to create the mission were good enough it wouldn't over step the boundary the devs have implied they don't want to cross.

Not exactly... cuz Rikti isn't really what I would call a primary thing...

On the front page I'd put...

Multiverse, Powers, Archtypes, Races, Technology

For the most part those are table of contents for each of those areas... but the multiverse would divide into each universe...so if we were to select Rikti Earth which would be listed as something like:

official name: ??? Nick name: Rikti Earth Distinguishing feature: Where the Rikti are from.

When you click on that you'd get another break down, perhaps a pop up... that would let you select one of the following

Organizations, History, People, Maps (redrawn and labeled)


Clicking on Organizations would give you a list of all the organizations in that universe, their history, their members, their connections,

Clicking on History would give you the history of the universe as a whole, both known and possible known (such as the destined one arcs and ouroborus future arcs)

Clicking on People would give you a list of all the people who call the universe home (obviously with links to their own bios... and each of these bios are also cross referenced as they would be in any wiki. The bio would contain all known info about that character's history and powers [not the individual powers but more along their sets...])

Clicking on Maps would give you all the maps available for that universe and all the information relating to each map (for example did Washington DC get blow up? that should be mentioned)... and as a continuous project i would love to have map re drawn and have the street labels and building labeled where we know them. This would also have all info on those buildings in those maps




The power section would talk about origins of powers, manifestations, and how they are used rather than "fireball : Minor DoT" it would talk about the manifestation of Fire

The archtype section... i dunno >.> seems like it should go here and it doesn't really fit anywhere else.

Technology section... this is separate because technology is passed around worlds and is separate from them...even though the tech may have an origin the tech itself is important to reference on it's own.

Races section would be to talk about Rikti and Kheldian and various other races biology and such. What do we know about them as a species, where do they come from, how do they communicate, etc... This is different from their culture and such which is part of their universe...sure it effects it, but it should be handled separately. And when you say "where are they from?" you simply link over to it.



This stream lining allows for quick and concise information gather and input. In stead of looking for a paragraph that says "The rikti are from x" You look in races and that has a thing that has "Origin: Rikti Earth" and that links you to the Rikti earth universe page. You clearly know what one page is talking about and what the other is and even though they are separate page they work as a unit. rather than a garbled mess which is what we sorta have right now for anything other than game stuff in paragonwiki.