Map ideas Faction specific biomes.

[Spectre]

I've been thinking about the potential for different biomes in Sanctuary. It's an artificial planet and the builders/settlers can do what they will with it. But what kind of environment would represent each faction?

EDA.

I imagine either vast urban sprawl or some kind of 40k style Hive City. Or even some sort of paradise? Isn't that was Sanctuary was designed to be? A paradise for humanity? The EDA would be the most obvious faction for the quintessential human-style environs.

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Chosen.

The Chosen are digital humans and they want an efficient and cold Sanctuary as that is what assists their computer matrixes. I'm thinking either snow maps, or cold deserts, or even base metal. They spend their time inside computers. I don't see that aesthetics appeal too much.

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Guard.

The Guard, as Sanctuary's builders would exist on EDA style maps (as they built the landscape in the first place) but I also imagine seeing areas still under construction. So areas where there are rents in the sphere which are still being built.

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What kind of areas would you like to see?

 

[Random Guy]

For the EDA: there is no reason to have hive cities, especially the one with bad living conditions. Sanctuary has more then enough space for everybody, and enough resources to cover that.

Chosen: Chosen are not digital humans, they are still physically. The process of their ascension is replacing the neurons of their brain with synthetic one by one. In the end, you get same exact brain, but much better, and it doesn't age. They are still human, they have emotions and other stuff. But they still use servers for external computations, so your suggestion partially still works.

 

[Al]

My take (and we must remember that this is ALL opinion AND subject to change as the game develops and advances) is that Sanctuary was built for the humans who became the EDA. The Chosen were formed after Sanctuary was under construction; that's when the technology to transfer consciousness was developed. So the initial purpose of Sanctuary was a paradise for humanity. Now that the Chosen have emerged there is conflict over what to do with Sanctuary as the Chosen see things very differently to the EDA. The Guard are an entirely different proposition altogether.

 

[Random Guy]

My take (and we must remember that this is ALL opinion AND subject to change as the game develops and advances) is that Sanctuary was built for the humans who became the EDA. The Chosen were formed after Sanctuary was under construction; that's when the technology to transfer consciousness was developed. So the initial purpose of Sanctuary was a paradise for humanity. Now that the Chosen have emerged there is conflict over what to do with Sanctuary as the Chosen see things very differently to the EDA. The Guard are an entirely different proposition altogether.

From what I know, EDA have formed long after the start of the construction. And big part of the conflict between EDA and Chosen cone from politics on Sanctuary. Since Chisen are so much smarter and actually have good patience for long-term plans, they just pushed out regular people from many places. Some people like it, because they actually do a good job at governing, some like EDA don't like it. So yea, Sanctuary is for humanity and general.
*whispering* ... Chosen don't transfer consciousness, they upgrade their brain neuron by neuron

 

[Brodes]

Nice ideas. I espcially like the idea of the Guard having areas still under construction.

 

[Heatman]

Personally, I love the concept of how The Chosen are going to designed. This is actually what we are getting at with the use of artificial intelligence. We might get to the stage where we are going to be transferring our consciousness to that of a machine in the future.

 

[Random Guy]

Personally, I love the concept of how The Chosen are going to designed. This is actually what we are getting at with the use of artificial intelligence. We might get to the stage where we are going to be transferring our consciousness to that of a machine in the future.

Chosen are not transferring their mind into machine. They are transferring their brain into a machine, a synthetic one. They still have a brain and it works on same basis as regular one but much better and doesn't age

 

[Al]

Chosen are not transferring their mind into machine. They are transferring their brain into a machine, a synthetic one.

Semantics.

 

[Random Guy]

Chosen are not transferring their mind into machine. They are transferring their brain into a machine, a synthetic one.

Ups, just noticed I did a mistake here. They aren't transferring their brain into a machine, they are converting it

 

[nine2]

I think faction specific biomes is a great idea actually.