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| Re: Something looks wrong with The Silent Cartogra | |
| Posted By: Narcogen <narcogen@rampancy.net> | Date: 6/15/11 2:42 a.m. |
In Response To: Re: Something looks wrong with The Silent Cartogra (Stephen L. (SoundEffect)) : Except that the island was completely circumnavigable (is that a word?) and : no landmasses were seen around it at all. That there are now is change for : change's sake. That's what I object to. Be prepared to do a lot of objecting, then :) : In a game, it's a real environment. Even if the clouds and mountains are 2D
Are you the only one who notices? No. Are you one of the few who care? Possibly. Are you the only one who thinks that any change at all, if not strongly justified by some other reason, is bad? Quite possibly. With regards to other elements, I would also fall into that boat. Geography and technical specifications just aren't among them. : I could argue with enough computing resources, they would have made the Halo
Even if they could have, they wouldn't have, because they don't need to. It would have been a waste of resources. They represent a large item
: But it very definitely wasn't there before, but is now. Here's something:
: One door is opened to us, but I was under the impression from Cortana's
The problem is the script uses the word "installation" which is used by 343GS to mean the entire ring. Here it is used only by Cortana, and I would interpret it as meaning the Map room itself, and not the entire ring. Access to Delta Halo's control room, for instance, is gained without previously visiting any "security station" or "security substation" and that is a signficantly more sensitive location than the map room-- which on Delta Halo we never even see. The relevant lines are:
and
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The use of the word "substation" here always indicated to me that even if the ring does have a system-wide security system, the one we're dealing with here is only a subset of that, and it would seem reasonable to assume that the division of duties across that system would be geographical, so that a local security substation restricts access to local resources; in this case, the map room. This next one I think bolsters both that interpretation, as well as the interpretation that the previous mentions of "installation" mean the cartographer and not the ring itself:
Whereas Cortana previously said "installation" and Keyes said "facility" (not quoted here) Cortana now uses "facility" to refer to the subject affected by the security station. That "main facility" is located "somewhere else on this island"-- meaning the map room and not the entire ring, or the Control Room. : The Ark is isolated. It's well outside the galaxy where there are no real
The *Ark* is isolated, but on the Ark, the Cartographer is not isolated. Presumably free access to all resources on each ring was also not intended, any more than any access whatsoever to the Ark was intended. If the designers considered the portal and the Ark's own geographical location to be sufficient security, they would not have also locked the door-- but they did, and that door requires 343GS to open it for us.
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