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Zebub

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Robo Hobo said :

The thing is, I actually expected this to be a list that could be put canonically in-game. Like a real suggestion to Mod Osborne to make a list of which quest took place first, second, etc. While I understand (and respect) the RP of your character, it still is RP. If we would take into account of every player's RP story we would get 200 million different timelines. One might have started as a tramp in Varrock or a farmer boy of Lumbridge. Variations in locations (like you said) shouldn't be considered. The only thing that remains is relative difficulty and chronology. Now Gertrude's Cat kicks in (or Monk's Friend), why wouldn't an adventurer, a mercenary looking for a reward, travel across the whole world doing simple chores and slowly building up his expertise?

Maybe you should differentiate between Fur 'n Seek as quest and as miniquest. Indeed as miniquest, both can't be right after each other as you need to collect bones from around the world. As quest, I see no reason.

I find ToG and TLT should be novice as they take place in Lumbridge.



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13-Mar-2014 17:37:16

Robo Hobo

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Ah yeah, just checked back on page 3 and I do indeed have that disclaimer there about Gertrude's cat and such.

Eventually it'd be nice to work on one without any backstory influencing it, but, since I was about to start on the GQM back when I made this one and needed a quest-order in the first place to be able to start it, priorities had me work with that one. You can only fully appreciate a story when you experience it through the eyes of one of its characters.

13-Mar-2014 18:05:26

Zebub

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Robo Hobo said :
Ah yeah, just checked back on page 3 and I do indeed have that disclaimer there about Gertrude's cat and such.

Eventually it'd be nice to work on one without any backstory influencing it, but, since I was about to start on the GQM back when I made this one and needed a quest-order in the first place to be able to start it, priorities had me work with that one.
You could have used the current categories as a start. The Adventurer would have done all novice first all the way to grandmaster as Legend.



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14-Mar-2014 16:45:43

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I don't think difficulty should be too much of a consideration. I think that things such as location play a more prominent role, at least among quests of similar tiers of difficulty. (Novice-Intermediate; Intermediate-Experienced; Experienced-MAster; Master-Grandmaster)
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14-Mar-2014 20:44:26

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Minor issue, but any plans to add One of a Kind to the end of that list? :P And don't forget Mahjarrat Memories and Fate of the Gods in the next few weeks! I'm just a man; I'm not a hero.
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14-Mar-2014 22:34:18

Robo Hobo

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Dangit...Hate when I lose a post I typed out.

Anyway, I'm not too fond of the idea of doing difficulty sweeps like that for the timeline, difficulty is considered but it's more complex than the official difficulty system, but even then it's pretty low-priority on the scale. I like keeping things a bit more flexible, since there are cases where the official difficulty would put what story-wise would be a good quest for a different part of the timeline earlier on. Like Chosen Commander, for example. In some cases, it contradicts itself too, My Arm's Big Adventure is intermediate yet requires 2 experienced quests.

As for the new quest releases, I'll be adding them, but I think I'll wait till FOT* comes out. It seems like it'll just be MPD -> Ooak -> Mahmem -> FOT* anyway though since there's a lack of 'ambiguous' references lately, they're either direct or not there, and due to the lack of amount of 6th age quests so far, location and other lesser-priority things aren't able to be taken into account much yet. You can only fully appreciate a story when you experience it through the eyes of one of its characters.

15-Mar-2014 06:11:11

Zebub

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Robo Hobo said :

I do understand you need some flexibility due the chronological order, but at least take the story into consideration. If the task is only minor (organising a party with some monks, find a lost cat, etc.) it doesn't seem something a dragon slayer would do. A kid could do that, you don't need a battle-hardened champion for that. Hence why a starting adventurer would do that.



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15-Mar-2014 09:26:58

Robo Hobo

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The story of them are definitely considered, it was again just a locational thing, if the adventuring were more open-world in the early section those quests definitely would have been done sooner.

I might have the next timeline not be restricted from kandarin in the adventurer stage but I was keen on keeping it so during the one I was making for the marathon. Though that'd be for the next one, I can't really change it in this one since I'd pretty much need to rework my locational framework for the entire thing lol. Even if I did, it'd be easier just to start from scratch for the next. :P You can only fully appreciate a story when you experience it through the eyes of one of its characters.

15-Mar-2014 16:01:05

Zebub

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Robo Hobo said :
The story of them are definitely considered, it was again just a locational thing, if the adventuring were more open-world in the early section those quests definitely would have been done sooner.

I might have the next timeline not be restricted from kandarin in the adventurer stage but I was keen on keeping it so during the one I was making for the marathon. Though that'd be for the next one, I can't really change it in this one since I'd pretty much need to rework my locational framework for the entire thing lol. Even if I did, it'd be easier just to start from scratch for the next. :P
Yeah, don't stick to one location and assume the adventurer travels across the world.



~ There must be
Tranquillity
and
Conflict
,
Liberty
and
Control
,
Order
and
Chaos
,
Collectivity
and
Individuality
, there must be...
Balance
! Join the 9th faction: Guthix! ~
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16-Mar-2014 14:37:23

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