Regardless of the Mass Relay situation, a "Galactic Dark Age" still sucks in my opinion. I did not sacrifice Shepard just for that to happen.....
A "Galactic Dark Age" - the price we had to pay to eliminate the Reapers forever.
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#427
Posté 25 mars 2012 - 02:44
CaptainZaysh
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breakdown71289 wrote...
Regardless of the Mass Relay situation, a "Galactic Dark Age" still sucks in my opinion. I did not sacrifice Shepard just for that to happen.....
I think "Galactic Dark Age" just means "no relays anymore" really. I don't think it means we go back to fighting with longswords and dying of the plague.
#428
Posté 26 mars 2012 - 06:50
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Really?
How would you prevent that? People say "they would not forget how to build starships".
Ok, let's make a test. WHO HERE KNOWS HOW TO BUILD A CAR FROM SCRATCH?
What? Nobody? Sucks if this forum had to salvage modern age then. Knowledge of technology is much more limited. Knowing what car is does not imbue anyone with ability to build one.
And in Galactic society build around easy access via relays means that interdependent societies either starve to death or degenerate into level of horses and ploughs as their supply of one or more of following dwindles to zero:
1) Food
2) Raw materials
3) Industrial supplies
Today, there are only few societies on this planet who are able to exist self sufficiently. And none of them are technologically advanced. Essentially, they cannot maintain even bronze age level of technology themselves.
THAT is fate of society which is technologically advanced. It becomes so dependent on access to others who have different set of knowledge and resources that it dies if denied access.
Only handful of worlds in ME3 universe would be located close enough to one another with sufficient level of technological knowledge and resources that they could form self sufficient entity. And even that one would be scraping to survive as industrial base would have to rework itself to cover everything from bolts to starships. Because knowledge of one without other would render them into level of agricultural society without tech.
You need nuts and bolts to build a starship, and starship to get to your friendly garden world to drop off spare parts for their harvesters and pick up their food. Which has to be taken to local mining area to feed miners (and drop off more spare parts) to get raw materials to bring back home (along with food) and start refining materials to make more nuts and bolts.
Modern society is house of cards, take one away and it collapses. Intergalactic society even more so, as knowledge and resources are even more widely spread.
How would you prevent that? People say "they would not forget how to build starships".
Ok, let's make a test. WHO HERE KNOWS HOW TO BUILD A CAR FROM SCRATCH?
What? Nobody? Sucks if this forum had to salvage modern age then. Knowledge of technology is much more limited. Knowing what car is does not imbue anyone with ability to build one.
And in Galactic society build around easy access via relays means that interdependent societies either starve to death or degenerate into level of horses and ploughs as their supply of one or more of following dwindles to zero:
1) Food
2) Raw materials
3) Industrial supplies
Today, there are only few societies on this planet who are able to exist self sufficiently. And none of them are technologically advanced. Essentially, they cannot maintain even bronze age level of technology themselves.
THAT is fate of society which is technologically advanced. It becomes so dependent on access to others who have different set of knowledge and resources that it dies if denied access.
Only handful of worlds in ME3 universe would be located close enough to one another with sufficient level of technological knowledge and resources that they could form self sufficient entity. And even that one would be scraping to survive as industrial base would have to rework itself to cover everything from bolts to starships. Because knowledge of one without other would render them into level of agricultural society without tech.
You need nuts and bolts to build a starship, and starship to get to your friendly garden world to drop off spare parts for their harvesters and pick up their food. Which has to be taken to local mining area to feed miners (and drop off more spare parts) to get raw materials to bring back home (along with food) and start refining materials to make more nuts and bolts.
Modern society is house of cards, take one away and it collapses. Intergalactic society even more so, as knowledge and resources are even more widely spread.
#429
Posté 09 juin 2012 - 11:18
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There's a easter egg in the crucibe that allow you not to use it.Chk-2000 wrote...
Cheesy Blue wrote...
Their isn't really any other option. As of right now, it's either use the Crucible or die. A galactic dark age sucks but it's the hand we have been dealt.
There's an option to not use the Crucible? Where?
Blue explosion is CONTROL the Reapers (CTRL).
Green explosion is to ALTERATE the life in the galaxy, making veryone partly organic, partly synthetic (ALT)
Red explosion is to DELETE the program of every Synthetic, destroying them (DEL).
OK, clues given, you hit them all (CTRL+ALT+DEL). There it is. You can choose to NOT use the crucible.
HAVE FUN!!!
#430
Posté 09 juin 2012 - 11:21
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Hell, I did it in Deus Ex and it seemed like the right choice. Why not in ME3?
