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Sure, but we're still very much in the "character creation" phase. I'm fine with cryptic choices, as long as we get some inkling or context over what the vote will determine. But like, we have zero context here.Who knows? Its a narrative quest, so its probably important.
Outside of Naron of course.
See, like, why not just tell us then?? There's zero reason to keep this cryptic if that's all this vote is determining.
I mean. I can understand why they would be confused.
While I see your point, I deliberately made it like this because I severely dislike how most Quest's handle character creation. If I explicitely said that X colour emphasises Y character trait, people would immediately try to minmax their vote choices. Which is something I do not want them to do without actually putting in the work of figuring out how the colour could influence Ciel.I do have to say though, I'm not a fan of "cryptic choice that will affect character in unknown ways", especially so early and over such a trivial choice. Like, making the choice cryptic doesn't add anything beyond us randomly choosing a color. If it's affecting something important, like the protags personality, then we should really know what the effect on the protag should be. And if it's something super trivial, like literally what the character's favorite color is, then I'm not even sure why we're voting for it?
You could make it so the character's personality doesn't mechanically affect their stats? If you do that, then people aren't minmaxing, they're just creating the character they want to read about.While I see your point, I deliberately made it like this because I severely dislike how most Quest's handle character creation. If I explicitely said that X colour emphasises Y character trait, people would immediately try to minmax their vote choices.
Which is something I do not want them to do without actually putting in the work of figuring out how the colour could influence Ciel.
Because you obfuscated what the vote was about since you made it cryptic. "This vote will influence Ciel but is unrelated to future encounters". What does that even mean? "Influence Ciel" and "Future encounters" could mean anything from "This vote is just about Ciel's favorite color and will not affect his personality whatsoever" to "This will decide Ciel's personality but won't affect his chances of meeting other color fixers" or even "This will decide what kind of EGO Ciel might potentially manifest".On the flipside, you can assume that it can be figured out without any further clues. I already said that the vote influences the character, but so far nobody made much of an attempt to reason how or what.
...do we even have stats? This is a narrative quest after all.
I mean, I assumed there would be at least some type of stats if Naron mentioned minmaxing. I'm not sure what the point of creating a character via a process that prevents minmaxing if there was nothing to be minmaxed?...do we even have stats? This is a narrative quest after all.
I don't care which option wins. That's kinda the problem? Cause I don't even know what we're even voting for.You will just be setting yourself up for disappointment when the vote eventually goes opposite of what you spent so much time thinking about.
On the flipside, you can assume that it can be figured out without any further clues. I already said that the vote influences the character, but so far nobody made much of an attempt to reason how or what.
I mean, I assumed there would be at least some type of stats if Naron mentioned minmaxing.
I don't really see that as something enjoyable to read tbh.If we try to emulate Iori even more, we will work on being a badass who knows everything before it happens, we will have the most important currency in any settings: information, and we will have a lot of it, also, we may draw her eye even more and she already has two colors on her belt that she trained, so this is a huge benefit if it happens.
There are no stats.You could make it so the character's personality doesn't mechanically affect their stats? If you do that, then people aren't minmaxing, they're just creating the character they want to read about.
That was a slip-up on my end, I guess. Apologies.I mean, I assumed there would be at least some type of stats if Naron mentioned minmaxing. I'm not sure what the point of creating a character via a process that prevents minmaxing if there was nothing to be minmaxed?
That means "this does more than pick their favourite colour, but it does not mean Ciel has it because they met another Color", which I saw as a misunderstanding that people would immediately jump on. Nothing about it is supposed to be cryptic beyond not specifying how big the influence on Ciel will be.Because you obfuscated what the vote was about since you made it cryptic. "This vote will influence Ciel but is unrelated to future encounters". What does that even mean?
And again, I ask, what is the point of making it cryptic then? If "Influence Ciel" means "Choose Ciel's color scheme", then why not just say so?? Making it cryptic just makes it confusing for zero reason. And Naron has literally clarified that no, it's not just a vote about the color scheme. Which kinda just proves my point?This is the color of a very important thing to the mc and is described as their favorite color, it is quite easy to see that it's a vote for a color schemes, probably the main or secondary color. There is context, and it's quite clear IMO.
If this is the option that determines what the character will act like as a Fixer, then what was the point of the first vote? We got Black and White as default options, and black was one of the first vote options as well.Purple is taking more from Iori, there is a reason why I want this and I am beginning to regret not making my campaign more serious or clear, so let's go with the why it is better than all the rest.
I love that part about the games too! But even then, they still let you choose what mon you play as if you didn't like the initial choice, and the questions they asked you were far easier to figure out what each answer meant in terms of personality.Anyway, you do have a point. I was probably overzealous. Thinking on it, my (mostly unconcious) inspiration was probably Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, where you start taking a personality quiz of sorts that determines which mon you play as. I loved that and still do.
Not gonna lie, that was my entire reasoning for picking purple at first. XDSee, that would almost makes me vote for gold, almost, because I now want Ciel to have a puppy crush on Iori and voting purple seems better for that.