Ferghus

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You're actually underestimating the programming and the nightmare this causes.

Let's just deal with the pregnancy for now...

You program for one of two genders, then decide to render and badaboom, you're done, right?

Well, if you want to get into details, you could make it so that your offspring has superpowers. Then you check for who's their mom and what traits they get from her.

But where it gets dicey is the ramifications... What if one of the women in your harem is a nympho while one is Obsessive? Would that affect which one wants your baby batter?

Furthermore, what happens if the hospital finds out that you're using Globex for all sorts of sexual escapades?

Globex would be liable for all the crazy shit your hijinks have created. Now multiply that by all the superheroes running around, and you have a catastrophe on your hands.

For this reason, I really would urge that the Globex injections makes these superhumans sterile. It shouldn't be much to make it so that Billy (Jean) finds out about this later and it was in the mountain of paperwork that (s)he signed. But I'd only add the pregnancy stuff when it's good and ready to be added.

Not trying to knock anyone's fetish. It's just that it'd require so much work, I would doubt it's worth it.
Rather than make them sterile, it would make mores sense that the powers are given through something like . It doesn't inherit to offspring. If you think about it though, if you have enough cash, you could theoretically do whatever the fuck you want. Outside of chemical castration and surgery, you could just as easily make someone fertile again. If these injections can give you super powers, there's no reason to believe that they can't fix fertility issues too. There's probably a black market for bootleg or overly dangerous superpowers out there.
 

Ungawa

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Rather than make them sterile, it would make mores sense that the powers are given through something like . It doesn't inherit to offspring. If you think about it though, if you have enough cash, you could theoretically do whatever the fuck you want. Outside of chemical castration and surgery, you could just as easily make someone fertile again. If these injections can give you super powers, there's no reason to believe that they can't fix fertility issues too. There's probably a black market for bootleg or overly dangerous superpowers out there.
I'm more or less thinking about it from a programming and sociological perspective. What you're saying makes sense, but I doubt highly that Globex, as the main corporation, would want this on their door step. If you're the CEO, would you want to do this for anyone? More than likely, high level superheroes that prove they're paragons of virtue can have kids.

But I would think that there's limits to it. Now put up a black market for it and now you can start to do some crazy stuff with this. Flaws and other things could be a consideration.

Think about how Robocop had those 3 laws and a secret protocol where he couldn't kill OCP personnel. Same stuff here.

It's not that you can't make them fertile again, but it's something to ensure they aren't crazy bastards (you know who you are!) that would rape and pillage and cost Globex a fortune. Them being in the business of profit, taking over the civil rights of superheroes, I'd have that as a plot point for later when the entire system (and renders) is ready but just to give it that justification for why it's not in the game for now that isn't beyond the presentation.

Just my .02.
 

DarkPhilosopher

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You can't have it all. It's still a choice to be with relatives though. Although getting a certain superpower causes the player to develop a flaw where he gains an interest in relatives, doesn't mean you have to act on them.

I'd think you'd know all about flaws after gaining powers. At least, if I'm guessing correctly that your signature contains Jeanette the Malkavian from the greatest computergame that really should be remastered or get another sequel but sadly hasn't.

Conversation between Malkavian and a stop-sign:
"No, you stop!"
"..."
"You've made a powerful enemy today, sign!"


Ah, I miss it so...
(And I still wish I could save my little love-slave's life)
 

Mirta

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Does the number of training sessions at The Initiative depend on the stats I choose or is it fixed ?
 

T.Geiger

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Does the number of training sessions at The Initiative depend on the stats I choose or is it fixed ?
If you mean for stats, you can train each up to a (natural) maximum of 5. This will include your starting bonuses, so if you pick Social as your primary, you only get to train it up 2 or 3 times (in 6 to 9 sessions).
 
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Mirta

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If you mean for stats, you can train each up to a (natural) maximum of 5. This will include your starting bonuses, so if you pick Social as your primary, you only get to train it up 2 or 3 times (in 6 to 9 sessions).
Thank you.
 

Naxos

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A bug I found is if you speak to Larson for help with your grades and the boost she give's pushes you over 100, you don't get a report card or school influence at the end of the month.

i only saw it once, and haven't tested it properly, but i spoke to her, got my grades to 104 two days before end of the month and didn't get any rep.
 

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Bloodlines is on my shortlist of best games ever. First playthrough I went Ventrue and struggled with the combat, second playthrough, I went Brujah and struggled with the not combat, third playthrough, I went Malkavian and struggled with the dialogue, and then I did Nosferatu and struggled with the map....I loved it so ^_^

thanks Naxos, I'll make sure to add a cap to that Favor.
 
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Ungawa

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Bloodlines is on my shortlist of best games ever. First playthrough I went Ventrue and struggled with the combat, second playthrough, I went Brujah and struggled with the not combat, third playthrough, I went Malkavian and struggled with the dialogue, and then I did Nosferatu and struggled with the map....I loved it so ^_^

thanks Naxos, I'll make sure to add a cap to that Favor.
Always heard Vamp:Bloodlines was good but never played it. Definitely something I want to do and I heard the mods for it help with the ending...
 

DarkPhilosopher

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Here I almost had a like from @Baal7734 on the Supernatural thread. Almost.

99% of the comedy in the game comes from the Malkavian playthrough. Also, since the Malkavian can read minds, there are even plot points and personal secrets that get revealed, some of which you won't know in the other playthroughs.

Beckett
(on opening a sarcophagus): In the last few seconds, I've had very few epiphanies. I may be old, but I didn't build it. How knowledgeable are you on ancient Assyrian funerary constructs?
Malkavian: "TNT" and "key" have the same amount of letters.
Beckett: Ugh! Yes, how foolish of me, that would be the sound, reasonable course of action. A priceless piece of history - by all means run out and pick up some TNT.

Nosferatu has cute lines when not hiding. He can give an old lady a heart attack (and kill her that way) when she sees him for the first time. And when picking up girls: "Baby, once you go gross, nothing comes close."

The entire game is essentially a series of traps meant to kill the player's character, but their stubborn refusal to die causes a great deal of karmic retribution for everyone else.

I read there's a mod that allows the player to create a vampire child. If they choose their love-slave, she survives.

Personally, having her die was so heartwrenching to me, I simply turned on no-clipping and went through the wall past the trigger where she gets killed. No more interactions the rest of the game, but at least she remained alive.

I liked Redemption too. It may have been linear, but the concept of going to sleep in the Dark Ages and waking up in 1999 wearing nothing but a rusty armor and an old sword was so cool. And then going from that to a long armored leather coat and a shotgun, Terminator-style. That adjustment to the times was awesome. And great for role-playing.

Impressive how much I remember from such old games. Then again:
"My greatest asset is my mind. And laser beam eyes." - Malkavian

Anyway, enough about that game, back to Supernatural. Anybody feel up to creating a vampire-mod for Supernatural? Billy already has the skin-tone and body-type for it. :biggrin:
 

troll822

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Not having played this game since it seems a grindfest, but since it's now in 24th version, I may take a look if the game has some story aside of renders.

What I mean is, do you use your superpowers to actually do anything other than sleep with girls or fight random stuff? I don't necessarily mean "save the world from Dr Evil". Taking down a mid-level drug dealer or bringing to light that X local judge or police chief is corrupt etc. Something that is a non-sexual accomplishment. You know a story.

If the game is only "grind to get stats and money so you can buy superpowers to use them to fuck girls" well... I may still give it a try with cheats but there are several games like that.
 
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