X-COM THINK TANK (Out of Character Discussion about X-COM and the Series)

[Zain Shah]

I agree with Taxon here; you can make a character who prefers to be alone but this shouldn't be reflected by you not interacting but acting very hostile in your interactions because I think that sometimes interactions are sometimes better for fleshing your character out rather than a journal entry.

 

[Frostlich1228]

I agree with Taxon here; you can make a character who prefers to be alone but this shouldn't be reflected by you not interacting but acting very hostile in your interactions because I think that sometimes interactions are sometimes better for fleshing your character out rather than a journal entry.

Yeah I can agree with that, my character Anna Preferred to be alone and the Only one she would talk to is her friend
Ayame, but after awhile in the base she grew as a character and began to talk to people more.

 

[ZombieSplitter53]

That was the same thing with Ayame, which was an on situation for me. Essentially, I wanted to interact with others while playing a character who was antisocial and partially afraid of most of the men on the base.

 

[Dahlexpert]

The same can be said for my character Axton, Even though Axton was a team player with his family he did not trust any one in the X-COM base, especially with the death with his feonsay. He would have never talked wit any of the women.

 

[PrismaCube]

At first I was a bit concerned as to how I'd manage to get the Overseer to not immediately go "Yo X-COM, y'know this scientist person Exalt? Yeah. Better kill her or something."
But I have an idea. In the words of Bain, "You'll see what I mean. I think you'll like it."

... I'm over dramatizing this. Really simple, really. Miscommunication. Transcription errors. That's it. After all, the aliens are messing everything up, official and unofficial. Who has time to proofread emails? Not the Overseer. No, he's too busy coordinating actual surveillance.
Sum and total - he might know something's up, but he's going to get it wrong. Hoo buddy, is he going to get it wrong.
Enter EXALT, stage right.

Sounds good I will try to work that in somehow Thank you

And also thank you to the rest of you for the suggestions and comments

 

[Dahlexpert]

I know this is random but I think for season 6.(If there will be a season 6) I'm going make a character who will be the founder of the brother hood of steel.

And for those that don't know who the brother hood of steel is. Here is a video on who the brother hood is.

 

[PrismaCube]

Well, that should be interessting, can't wait to see how you will do that ^^

 

[ZombieSplitter53]

It might be a little presumptuous to be planning for season six already. That being said, I already have an individual by the name of Sunny Randolph ready for season six's engineering section, so I guess I'm not one to talk.

 

[PrismaCube]

Heck, xD I planned for Season 5 in Season 3 so what's the big worry ^^

 

[Dahlexpert]

Now, mind you guys I came up with this idea today and I all ready have a name. So the characters name is Aeliana Gunner, and she is a former scientist turned soldier and that's all I have for now, but I have plenty of time to figure out this character, and I all ready have tons of plans for this character.

 

[ZombieSplitter53]

I've got the name, stats, background, and application ready, but when I start to think of an idea, I can't stop thinking about it until I'm finished with the idea.

 

[PrismaCube]

I've got the name, stats, background, and application ready, but when I start to think of an idea, I can't stop thinking about it until I'm finished with the idea.

I know that feel bro

 

[Dahlexpert]

I've got the name, stats, background, and application ready, but when I start to think of an idea, I can't stop thinking about it until I'm finished with the idea.

I know that felling, of having a idea and not stopping until you finished it. It's like you have a small idea in you head it's just there and then you start thinking about that idea, and now that idea that was a speck now has a plot characters and a background and I do love that felling.

 

[ZombieSplitter53]

Yeah...well, that and my OCD.

 

[Dahlexpert]

Well...... I, have no idea how to respond to that.

 

[ZombieSplitter53]

I can't remember, Odd had limit on character age, right? Do you think he would let that slide for non-combatants? I mean, if someone is hitting the field, they need to be in prime shape to fight, so no matter how skilled they are, a six year old boy or a ninety year old woman would be ridiculous, so I completely agree with the age limit.

But if you're in the labs, your mind is the most important thing, and if you're in engineering, as long as you can do basic work, or you contribute in ways that don't require physical strength (like designing and programing for satellites, S.H.I.V.s, and the Mechs), it doesn't matter if you're a fourteen year old prodigy or a sixty-five computer genius, right?

And I know there are plenty of you who are rolling your eyes at me, but here me out. Say I was to introduce a character based on a real person, like Stephen Hawking. who is 72 and paraplegic but is one of the leading minds on theoretical physicist and cosmologist, and the Director of Research at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge, or Gabriel See, who scored a 720 out of 800 on the SAT math test at age 8, performed T-cell receptor research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center at age 10, and at age 11, he won a silver medal at the international Genetically Engineered Machine competition on synthetic biology for undergraduate college students at MIT. Do you think Odd would give them a chance?

 

[Frostlich1228]

I can't remember, Odd had limit on character age, right? Do you think he would let that slide for non-combatants? I mean, if someone is hitting the field, they need to be in prime shape to fight, so no matter how skilled they are, a six year old boy or a ninety year old woman would be ridiculous, so I completely agree with the age limit.

But if you're in the labs, your mind is the most important thing, and if you're in engineering, as long as you can do basic work, or you contribute in ways that don't require physical strength (like designing and programing for satellites, S.H.I.V.s, and the Mechs), it doesn't matter if you're a fourteen year old prodigy or a sixty-five computer genius, right?

And I know there are plenty of you who are rolling your eyes at me, but here me out. Say I was to introduce a character based on a real person, like Stephen Hawking. who is 72 and paraplegic but is one of the leading minds on theoretical physicist and cosmologist, and the Director of Research at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge, or Gabriel See, who scored a 720 out of 800 on the SAT math test at age 8, performed T-cell receptor research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center at age 10, and at age 11, he won a silver medal at the international Genetically Engineered Machine competition on synthetic biology for undergraduate college students at MIT. Do you think Odd would give them a chance?

Hmm... That's a really good question actually...

 

[Adrammalech]

I don't think there was a hard limit, but he did say they should be people who would actually be selected for XCOM, so they should almost always have a military background and be in their 20s. Scientists would have more leeway (after all, Shen is in his 40s or 50s minimum), but I think they should still be physically able.

That said, it is a military bunker, so I would expect people to be able to avoid or sustain injuries from accidents and handle a gun if necessary. The UN expy wouldn't want to be liable for some kid getting fried by a generator or something at a military base.

 

[PrismaCube]

Well, I can only say that I do not think that my thought's of what I think to be the right descision to be wrong, could possible change my mind to tell you that I think that the thought you are thinking is probably in a possible way a good thought and a true one. WTF ok

Now to seriousness, there are many great people in the world that are 16 or even younger and have invented shit that not even a scientist with who know how many Degress and titles to his name could even think of. So yeah it is possible to have teenagers and maybe, maybe even kids join a secret project.

 

[Taxor_the_First]

Well, I can only say that I do not think that my thought's of what I think to be the right descision to be wrong, could possible change my mind to tell you that I think that the thought you are thinking is probably in a possible way a good thought and a true one.

That sentence hurts my head. It probably makes sense, but I no understand. This is why I shouldn't do things like this when I'm tired.
As for the age thing, I don't think it would be too much of an issue provided it wasn't ridiculous, like say a 2 year old or 105 year old. I'd actually say that "combat capability" in the sense Adrammalech means it would not be an issue. XCOM is clearly not expecting an attack on the base, at least not to the point where they'd have to bring in the scientists and engineers (although, as a TF2 player I now cannot get the image out of my head of one of the engineers placing a SHIV somewhere and yelling "Erecting a turret!"). At that point, the aliens would have already gotten too far to stop them.
Actually, thinking about it, that creates a problem for any future non-soldiers hoping to get a bit of action during the base defense mission. Could maybe be explained by having some facilities on the other side of Delta section (where the mission takes place). I dunno. Thoughts?