The Omega Time Capsule Has Been Opened!

Yeah im in a team doing it now :P

D'oh, and agreed, on both counts.

The patch notes don't reflect this, but Chroma mentioned:
I'm thinking not, but doe anyone want to check?

I presume it has a update just havent checked, been doing winter stuff. New Gm is fun

What's very good is that now you get see what Hero 1 looks like, plus get to read his own thoughts in his letter quite a while before you get to run the LGTF, so it's going to add to the experience for new players doing it for the first time.

Just ran it - it's the same - 15 Freaks, 15 Rikti, 15 DE.

Angel Red
"We're heroes. Fighting injustice is the thing we do." ~Rebel Scum

That's a pretty funny point.

Maybe he didn't do it to be helpful, but to be a jerk and show off just before he died. He didn't have anything else to say. Maybe he just wanted to go out with "SEE? I RULED AT THIS!"

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Maybe he survived, and snuck into the memorial every so often to slip an updated letter into the capsule?

That could explain why Brandford's Psychic Readings is still in business...!

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

No, he covered that in XIII: "You may have seen all that I say, or await it another day". No one hedges his bets like a prophet.

More seriously, he also said that he didn't know if his visions would come to pass, so he likely wouldn't know when, either, except in the most general terms. For that matter, some of the things he said (or hinted at) about past events are things that we, as players, have sussed out, but which aren't necessarily known in-game. Now there are clues to those things in the canon.

But that's not a vision, that's a guess. What I meant (not seriously, but still) was that of all the things Branford saw, one of the things he didn't see was us opening the time capsule after everything else happened.


In City of Heroes, seers tend to see multiple futures and have to sometimes decide which are the most probable. Being uncertain about whether the event will happen doesn't mean the vision itself wasn't clear. Probably the thing that throws off seers the most is when they tell people their predictions, which causes the prophesy to influence the future it describes. However, Branford doesn't get a pass on that one because none of us read his prophesies and tried to alter the future based on them (so far as we know).

As an aside, The Minority Report (the short story, not to be confused with Minority Report the Tom Cruise movie loosely based on the short story) deals with this probably as well as anyone else. In the PKD story, the three precogs generate reports, and the system compares them. They are never 100% the same, so the system generates a majority report which includes all the facts they have in common. A minority report is generated with the extra information. The head of Precrime, Anderton (the character played by Tom Cruise in the movie), doesn't originally know this: this aspect about the design of the system is classifed. When the system generates a report that he will kill someone, he eventually discovers that this report is only the majority report, and decides to find his minority report to see if there is information that could clear him. However, he discovers that actually, the majority report is a system error: the precogs actually generate three minority reports on him, all different.

Normally, the reason for a majority report and a minority report is that the precogs see the future where someone is a murderer, but because precrime goes and arrests that person, the future is changed. Often, because the precogs are not perfectly "in sync" one of them will see the future that occurs *after* the other two change it with their majority report. But Atherton is special because he works for precrime and sees the reports: in his case there are *three* possible futures: the future the first precog sees, the future the second precog sees because of the first precog's report, and the future the *third* one sees because Anderton sees the precog's reports. In the first report, Anderton kills Kaplan. In the second report, Anderton learns of the majority report and deliberately tries to save Kaplan, changing the future. In the third report he realizes that not killing Kaplan would prove precrime was wrong (his majority report would be false), and ends up killing him to prevent precrime from being discredited (which is itself an interesting plotline handled well by the story).

The precrime computer gets confused because it thinks the three reports form a majority report (two precogs detect the murder) and a minority report (one doesn't) but they are actually three minority reports reporting on three futures, due to the effect of learning the future from the precogs. This situation was never accounted for because it could only happen if the head of precrime was himself seen to commit a murder by the precogs and saw his own majority report.

The interesting thing about the story is the peculiar thing it says about free will (a common PKD theme). You could argue that the precogs prove there is no free will, because they are always right. And yet, Anderton, apparently of his own free will, has to take action to ensure that they are right, because without that choice they would have been wrong. But since the precogs forsaw that Anderton would have to make that choice, was it really a choice of free will?

Or to put it in a more mind-bending way: the first precog predicts a future. The second precog predicts the first precog will be wrong. The third precog predicts that the second one will be wrong, and someone will come along to make the first precog right.

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I do wonder, why apart from the 'few big names', non of all the other fallen heroes of Omega Team ever got into the game on a earlier point. A villain fighting along the heroes would be quite a history point for the rogue island people, of Crey trying to rebuild the robot dude, its all so sudden and clearly they all are forgotten (in a rather short time).

I really like the letters 'as if', but they now start to feel more like nice spin-off stories than that they actualy 'fit' in the game. (like the mission you read a letter of your pretorian self).