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Hasnt it gone on long enough? - Thexare - 08-11-2009
' Wrote:Xenophobia - Fear of aliens.....Dictionary.com strikes again!
I'm not so inclined to believe that term applies. As Gallia has a hatred of Sirians, not a fear of Sirians.
Quote:xen⋅o⋅pho⋅bi⋅a
/ˌzɛnəˈfoʊbiə, ˌzinə-/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [zen-uh-foh-bee-uh, zee-nuh-]
noun
an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange.
So, yeah, it is the right word.
Hasnt it gone on long enough? - jimmy Patterson - 08-11-2009
i stil ldont understand therr rp or role in discovery we cant interact with them and you still get the galics entering new york of all places
Hasnt it gone on long enough? - Thexare - 08-11-2009
As far as I'm concerned, in their current state they have no role in Discovery. Their RP explicitly calls for no one else to be there and them not to be anywhere else. It is a self-contained region with no reason not to be hosted on a seperate server.
It's explicitly not part of the rest of the game, because of its own RP. Why was this considered a good idea again?
Hasnt it gone on long enough? - swift - 08-11-2009
Perhaps something happens with Gallia in 4.86.
Hasnt it gone on long enough? - Belco - 08-11-2009
yeah, i just view it as a placeholder for now, go there once, see the huge planets, get shot at and dont come back till the next version
Hasnt it gone on long enough? - Thexare - 08-11-2009
' Wrote:Perhaps something happens with Gallia in 4.86.Then it could've appeared in 4.86. I've been discussing it with a few people in Skype, and almost every point they bring up supports it being added at a later date.
You know, when the place is actually finished.
Hasnt it gone on long enough? - Camtheman Of Freelancer4Ever - 08-11-2009
All the core systems get "unlocked" in 4.86
Or most of them. Anyways, most of the council ppl were nice to my juggernaut in Lauguedoc, I dwarfed their Gallic Battleship, They really should fear Sirrians... We're capwhores.
Hasnt it gone on long enough? - Renzoku2 - 08-11-2009
' Wrote:Dictionary.com strikes again!
So, yeah, it is the right word.
Regardless of what an online dictionary says.... Phobia's are always associated with the fear of something.
Would you think of Phobophobia as the fear of fears? Or the hatred of fears?
Those who would rather not get a shot. Is it because they're afraid of needles? Or because they hate needles?
' Wrote:As far as I'm concerned, in their current state they have no role in Discovery. Their RP explicitly calls for no one else to be there and them not to be anywhere else. It is a self-contained region with no reason not to be hosted on a seperate server.
It's explicitly not part of the rest of the game, because of its own RP. Why was this considered a good idea again?
So what if Gallic RP is isolated? Isolationist RP kind of leans to that.
So what if Gallic RP has no involvement in, or is better without, Sirian RP in its current state? The roleplay has to be built to the point that it -does- involve other factions.
Now, on the previous topic of phobias.....
Neophobic much, Thexare?
Hasnt it gone on long enough? - ugliestmoose - 08-11-2009
I must agree with messieurs Patterson and Thexare above. While I appreciate all the hard work that went into making Gallia, it doesn't fit into Discovery at all. Its proportions are all wrong - it's going to be twice as big as any other House when all's said and done - and its entire background is one big fat cliche: mysterious group that no one knew about (even though they've been neighbors for like, 800 years?) comes out of the woodwork with superior technology and decides to crush the rest of the galaxy. (sidenote: why should they have superior technology and firepower? If history tells us anything, isolated societies don't develop as rapidly because there's no need to, no competition.) To top off the silliness, they make this uber-house French. No offense to France, but if there's going to be a superpower-type house I'd like to see it as descended from a combination of many countries, not from a single one (and one that happens to have an, ahem, spotty military history).
If it were up to me, I would have made Gallia as a small, relatively new House that arrived late like the Hispania, that was struggling to survive until it discovered a passage into Sirius. Then, this fledgeling Gallic nation would be working to build partnerships and alliances with the established Houses in order to build up its modest economy. In other words, Gallia would be a peripheral addition to Discovery that would nicely blend in with what's already established, instead of being a whole new thing that's neither here nor there.
Hasnt it gone on long enough? - Renzoku2 - 08-11-2009
' Wrote:Then it could've appeared in 4.86. I've been discussing it with a few people in Skype, and almost every point they bring up supports it being added at a later date.
You know, when the place is actually finished.
Ok, the Core Systems are "unfinished". The well-fitting RP covering that is the fact that the Jumpgates to those systems were locked down as a security measure by the Gallic Royals.
' Wrote:Or most of them. Anyways, most of the council ppl were nice to my juggernaut in Lauguedoc, I dwarfed their Gallic Battleship, They really should fear Sirrians... We're capwhores.
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@cossack, Perhaps thats because Gallia is -meant- to be a system of its own, not just another house within the Sirius System, in addition to being more abundant in resources. Read the RP, the minefields were disguised to make people assume they were no different than other Alien Minefields found in Sirius. Because of the actions of the Council, Gallia was revealed -before- Gallic Royals achieved technological superiorirty. Why would they want superiority? Because, they had planned revenge from the beginning. They had reason to want superior technology.