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[Chattox]

The "Citizen of the 12th bay" idea of sebcool caused me to come up with this variation for it:

Bay12er/Bay Watcher - Above avearge skills in all areas, but will form cults whenever possible.

Or is perhaps possessed of strange moods, causing him/her to create twisting, folding, antediluvian artefacts of eldritch horror, often with infinitely repeating images of themselves etched upon their fathomless surfaces?

[Gaslamp-Daniel]

Thanks guys!  Actually a lot of the general stuff matches up pretty well with our internal list, which is a good sign, I think.  The literary descriptors are really cool, but the game isn't the real world so the context would be a bit weird.  Still, there's a bunch of strangeness in those guys' lives to get inspiration from so I'll read some more biographies. =)

As far as coming up with a bay 12 trait, we'll think of something.  We are all for writing in subtle references to the games we love, so I'm sure it'll happen, I just can't tell you what it will be yet.

Man, we're so close to having something playable.  I can't wait.

[Oliolli]

Neither can we.

[Descan]

Maybe a reference could be that, the twelfth bay you colonize could have a colony of dwarves already there, that you have to deal with! (conquer, trade, assimilate, etc)

[Chattox]

Thanks guys!  Actually a lot of the general stuff matches up pretty well with our internal list, which is a good sign, I think.  The literary descriptors are really cool, but the game isn't the real world so the context would be a bit weird.  Still, there's a bunch of strangeness in those guys' lives to get inspiration from so I'll read some more biographies. =)

As far as coming up with a bay 12 trait, we'll think of something.  We are all for writing in subtle references to the games we love, so I'm sure it'll happen, I just can't tell you what it will be yet.

Man, we're so close to having something playable.  I can't wait.

Something similar to the strange mood mechanic in DF would fit quite well, I imagine. Perhaps a member of a cult could be possessed by whatever the cult worships, and then make something or do something unusual? Just throwing ideas out

[lordcooper]

Man, we're so close to having something playable.  I can't wait.

Does this mean an alpha release looms nigh?

[ScriptWolf]

Man, we're so close to having something playable.  I can't wait.

Does this mean an alpha release looms nigh?

will said alpha be open to sign up and invitation ?

will also bay12ers be top priority due to how much we wish to make love to this game

[Criptfeind]

Didn't they already say they were not going to go the paid alpha for this game?

Actually. Did they do that for Dreadmor? I don't think so...

[ScriptWolf]

i dont mean paying to get in a mean the conventional way where you would give them your email address a shot paragraph why you should be picked for the alpha/beta you know that thing

[PTTG??]

You'd basically have to get a job doing QA for them, and that basically means, take everything that is fun in computer games, remove them from computer games, and triple everything that is left. Plus meetings, to the power of having to write an essay every time it crashes.

[lordcooper]

You'd basically have to get a job doing QA for them, and that basically means, take everything that is fun in computer games, remove them from computer games, and triple everything that is left. Plus meetings, to the power of having to write an essay every time it crashes.

I'm too lazy to look up the exact quote, but Daniel has specifically stated in this thread that there will be alpha releases.  Look through his posts yourself if you don't believe me.

[ScriptWolf]

really you dont have to get a job or pay to be in a beta or alpha, have you never signed up for a beta, really paradox do it quite often *sighs*

here is a list of games where you have only (or it has been a mix of buy and invite ) been able to sign up for a beta and you are given a invitation:

Warframe
Mech warrior online ( before foundation ) ( and before open beta you could sign up to receive a invite into alpha )
Salem
Game of dwarfs
warlock master of the arcane
master of a broken world
war of the roses
shadow effect
hawken

and countless other games

[Pnx]

So new blog post.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

As someone who is somewhat familiar with phrenology and has seen the chart on Wikipedia that this is probably meant to mimic, I found this absolutely hilarious.

I'm more and more convinced that I'm going to really enjoy doing some great in character Let's Play's of this game.

[Criptfeind]

You'd basically have to get a job doing QA for them, and that basically means, take everything that is fun in computer games, remove them from computer games, and triple everything that is left. Plus meetings, to the power of having to write an essay every time it crashes.

I'm too lazy to look up the exact quote, but Daniel has specifically stated in this thread that there will be alpha releases.  Look through his posts yourself if you don't believe me.

They said that they would be doing alpha testing. But not like. A release. Just picking some people to do testing. Which sounds exactly what PTTG was talking about.

[Sirus]

Phrenology, eh? This just sounds better and better