So since I'm a stubborn masochist I've been working all night on getting the tech tree to display in GraphViz (without manually reformatting the research post very much). Here are my results so far:
Green is for complete research, Gold and bold borders for available research in current tech trees, and dashed lines for unstarted tech trees and things we can't research just yet.
Missing brackets might need to be manually added in occasionally, but as long as the current formatting is used this should be able to generate updated versions of the tech tree.
Speaking of technical solutions, would
this help at all with the current voting system issues?
Edit: Found a few bugs in the display, but it still works for proof of concept.
Edit 2: Replaced with Vertical tech tree, adjusted borders.
This is completely awesome, WillRobinson! Congrats on your non-Research Omake bonus! (PM me for details).
I think that Vhalidictes has said that we can research budding, but I don't think it was ever a listed research project. You might be thinking of the Shadows on the Wall research project, which lets us understand Shard minds.
Anyone can suggest researching this. As far as I know, no one has submitted it yet.
It looks like info from sense-sharing is only received starting the day after the sense-share is created because the sense-shares we set up in the AM update didn't produce any info in the PM update. I'm wondering how many sense-shares we'll be allowed. For anyone who's curious, here's the current sense-shares we have along with what type of info they're most likely to produce or my best guess, if we haven't received any info yet:
Audible (Triumph) - Blaster? Based on power classifications website.
Frictionless (Ballistic) - Striker/Blaster? Based on power classifications website.
Fusion (Sundancer) - Master/Blaster? Based on power classifications website.
Gaea (Amy/Claire) - Tinker & small amounts of Brute and Changer.
Negotiator (Lisa) - Thinker. We might also receive info from her being near the other members of the Undersiders.
Shift (Sophia) - Breaker.
Singular (Bakuda) - Tinker.
Surveillance (Madison) - None until Madison triggers. Probably Tinker afterwards.
Swap (Trickster) - Mover? Based on power classifications website.
Telekinetic (Victoria) - Master, Shaker, & Thinker. We've also received Blaster, Changer, and Stranger info from her, but I think that was from capes nearby.
Twin (Coil) - Thinker.
Sense-shares are effectively limited to 25 or so, before penalties accrue. You're welcome to propose research topics on this to reduce the pain level. Note that you're going to get less and less non-asked-for details in the chapters as you increase the number of shares. I might limit things I proactively inform you of to major-situations-only after a point.
-[X] Tracer 4
Ask Tracer how it feels about catgirls and cultural appropriation
-[X] Gaea 1
Convince Gaea to make Claire release a catgirl virus that turns every white girl in Brockton Bay into a catgirl
(To make sure Rune is affected)
Do you really want to change BB into the Furry capital of Earth-Bet?
So, anyone have anything they'd like to see in a PHO interlude? If I'm going to try and do them every other update I could do with some ideas to act as filler if nothing exciting happens in the meantime.
Given enough forewarning I can likely have Vhal weigh in and try to help flesh out some ideas if I start it far enough in advance.
Just so everyone else knows, anyone is welcome to produce a PHO reactions post. We don't want to rely on just GrandMage!
I dunno. This just seems to be two or three different issues being mixed up.
As to Vhal having to write stuff, he doesn't seem to mind. Judging by his comment earlier, flu season is giving him more problems than anything else. Lorde knows real life has been throwing my schedules off like crazy (I mean, probably not, really. Do you think musicians read all their fan mail personally?).
If you're worried about getting a huge text dump you can't follow along with, well, I can understand that. The quest is kind of random in what days it hits, you have to follow along and try to get a vote in, as well as dealing with trying to convince others to go with your plans over the alternatives. . .
Maybe a dedicated schedule? Updates on, like, Fridays or something so people had the weekend to look over things? If Vhal can't make a deadline due to real life just skip the week entirely to keep issues from cropping up? I don't know how long meeting new Shards will tend to be. Unless we hit a bunch of sapient Shards (and they're supposed to be rare) most of the communication with Zion Shards should be pretty blah.
Once we get this update we'll be able to see how much it takes up and try to adjust the text dumps we're asking for in regards to what we've seen.
Sorry about the lack of update speed, everyone. I keep getting serially sick, and multiple people in my department are on leave, which makes writing time very scarce. I'm working on it
Side note: New firewall at work means that I can't browse SV from work any more, which isn' helping either. This might be fixable, but... it will take time.
I'll just point out that according to Vhal we got a big unnecessary complication by voting for time travel this round. I'm sure our do-everything-at-once approach isn't helping, but I get the impression that most of what we had planned was half-written or at least outlined before the time travel curve ball threw everything into disarray, delaying the update. Going by Vhal's track record, most chapters won't take this long.
This is hopefully true. In addition to writing the new chapter, I'm working on a lot of re-work for the old chapters. I might delay some of that until after the new chapter release, honestly. I hope not but I'm not sure.
On another note, I find it somewhat funny how we're trying to compare Taylor's alien brain to Victor's power. Imagine them fighting, he'd simply drain everything she's learned right out of her, turning a 15 year old with above average skill into a 15 year old. Like, what she can do is pretty nice and certainly above average, but still firmly within the realm of human capability. Increased intelligence and perfect memory alone just doesn't compare to actual parahuman powers. Examples of such can be (very rarely) found in humans with a normal human brain, whereas I'm pretty sure nobody ever casually went Dinah or Tattletale during human history.
Victor's power, and in fact any mind-interaction power, including electrical-type Masters, may not interact well with Taylor's mind-obfuscation. Best case, Taylor is immune. Worst-case, Taylor is lobotomized. I guess we'll just have to see how the interactions play out...
Edit: Just checked, and Taylor's brain is partitioned 75% into storage, 25% into combined thinking/storage. So her cognitive capacity has increased by however much of difference moving the 0-Point Corona and her memories out gives. I'm not too clear on if other parts of her personality are stored in the processing partition, though.
This is true - Taylor is abnormally intelligent now, but that could easily be increased by up to a factor of three with some re-partitioning.
On an unrelated note, given the similarities between Taylor's personality copy and the encrypted data stored in her brain, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the data contained is Khepri's mind. Consider that a Post-GM Lisa copy was sent to Negotiator. Maybe QA wanted to store her copy of Khepri, so she modified Taylor's brain to fit the data and stuffed in the compressed copy.
The data (in Taylor's head) was not Khepri.
Double posting to make sure Vhal sees this.
@Vhalidictes can we get a research tree for budding? Like something that eventually lets us give our buds whatever personality we want?
@Metoto if you so desperately want a pet QA, rather than risk things with the hostile one, let's make our own.
I can work out a tree for Budding, sure. What skill types would you be interested in?
You make it sound like I'm a liar and a cheat!