Greetings Program! - An idea to re-use locked content

[Venompen]

This idea is twofold. The mechanical bit that I absolutely can't help with, and the lore part I'd be happy to help with.

1. The nature of the game leads to a lot of 'roads not taken' syndrome. Some people have the time to play it again and again, some don't. Some are willing to savescum, some aren't as diligent as they'd need to be to take advantage of that. And this game has a frankly ridiculous amount of sex scene content already existing. The idea is to give the player the ability to take part in scenes they may have locked off for themselves. For example, someone who fought the Zil in the Meng'ha jail want to find out what happens if you fucked them without starting over.

2. The Lore: In a universe that can manage things like turning you completely into True Doll, or a sapient jello mold, its logical to think that there's considerable technology to preserving the mind. Enter the Infranet. Accessed through modified VR Headsets, the Infranet is a place populated by Scans and Cyphers. Scans are sapient beings that underwent experimental procedures to have their brains uploaded to computers, though they exist autonomously. Most of them don't even know if they still exist in 'meatspace'. Cyphers are true AIs, thinking and feeling beings comprised of math and code. Either out of nostalgia or novelty, they crave interaction with real people. Through the use of advanced hardlight projectors and more direct interfaces with the brain, they're able to produce elaborate fantasy scenarios, and they get off on feeling what the player feels.

The Infranet, as a setting, can offer some seriously cool scenarios. Off the top of my head:
-Shadowrun Style immersion hacking
-Accessing NPCs through the V-Ko's custom input
-Cybersex via a zork style text interface, with the actual text generated being modified by things like being a bimbo or being dumb.
-Building a body for a Scan or Cypher to download into 'meatspace'
-Bad Ends such as having malware turn you into a porny pop up ad, or failing to email yourself to safety when you destroy a system.

So, what do you all think?

 

[Evil]

Are you going to write this?

Because the Ideas section is not for pitching ideas,but rather for people who are working on their own material and looking to share that.

 

[null_blank]

Shadowrun

Stop

 

[SheeptaurTheSheepKing]

Is it really that hard to save your game and then throw the fight so you can see the loss scenes and bad endings? because I do that all the time.

I'm not sure if this kind of full on cyberpunk stuff fits the setting either. TiTs already has lore for how it's A.I.s work that would rule out the cyphers, but brain scanning does seem to be a thing that can happen sometimes, like with the crew of the NOVA and with Valden. Maybe it could work as an isolated thing, like a quest/mini-dungeon to a secret space station where a bunch of transhumanists uploded their brains to the extranet. Maybe one of them became a deranged hacker who fucks people's minds while they're in VR and so Luca hires you to deal with him after he basically rapes a bunch of her customers.

 

[Venompen]

Whelp, I can take a hint. Feel free to ignore the lore section.
I was under the impression that the second purpose, listed in "What the Idea Subforum is For", the exception, would apply here.
"The exception to the above is ideas for purely mechanical changes to the game. If you have ideas that would improve the way the game works, combat balance, class features, etc., this is the place to put them up for discussion."

I guess I should have been paying more attention to the other one. Sorry for getting excited, feel free to delete this thread.

 

[SheeptaurTheSheepKing]

Whelp, I can take a hint. Feel free to ignore the lore section.
I was under the impression that the second purpose, listed in "What the Idea Subforum is For", the exception, would apply here.
"The exception to the above is ideas for purely mechanical changes to the game. If you have ideas that would improve the way the game works, combat balance, class features, etc., this is the place to put them up for discussion."

I guess I should have been paying more attention to the other one. Sorry for getting excited, feel free to delete this thread.

I don't think either of these ideas needs to be thrown out entirely, they just need a bit of reworking.

It would actually be pretty cool if you unlocked some kind of "scene viewer cheat" option as a reward for getting your character to the end of the game's finished content.

Also, the current in-development planet Dhaal is supposed to be cyberpunk themed, so maybe you could rework Scans, Cyphers, an The Infranet to be something specific to Dhaal and the native Zaika who live there.

 

[Shura]

Someone’s had an idea for having Luca’s VR lounge let us replay one-off scenes from events, but sadly don’t think anything came of it. I think it would be a simple matter to implement the mechanics in though. Like a more complex version of the VR Doll and Po fights.