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Say if for example, some dialogue with Zaros were ever updated to include a reference of The Mighty Fall when you ask him about Bandos, as that dialogue could be obtained during a first playthrough of the quest, that would, to me, suggest that in a chronological timeline, The Mighty Fall took place before Fate of the Gods, even though Fate of the Gods was released after the Mighty Fall.
A more complicated example, but on the same principle, would be if dialogue were updated with Zaros to mention the events of Plague's End if you ask him about Seren. While there are no direct Fot*-references in the initial playthrough of Plague's End, there are some revelations that post-quest access allows to, which are better comprehended if tempered from information from Fate of the Gods. However, a priority in this chronological timeline-deduction-thing is that Quest References are of a higher priority than Player Knowledge, so with that in mind I would also place Plague's End before Fate of the Gods for that reason, and if I were to do that, I would place Plague's End very early in the 6th age, as it would better explain the appearance of the Seren emissary as part of the elven-human relations improvement attempt as explained in the end of Plague's End, rather than in the unexplained presence it had before.
Those are just a couple examples that would show a cause for reason that a 6th age quest could take place before another regardless of release dates, Hos, prior to the dialogue addition, was a potential other depending on how you look at it.
Anyway, I realize the much easier route would be to accept them as a release date order, I also realize that this whole process is the very definition of over-complicating things. Lastly, I also am fully aware that the very concept of this project is a direct contradiction to Jagex's own intentions - as I explained in my previous post.
If I had ever gave reason to imply otherwise on any of the above things though, please tell me.
A more complicated example, but on the same principle, would be if dialogue were updated with Zaros to mention the events of Plague's End if you ask him about Seren. While there are no direct Fot*-references in the initial playthrough of Plague's End, there are some revelations that post-quest access allows to, which are better comprehended if tempered from information from Fate of the Gods. However, a priority in this chronological timeline-deduction-thing is that Quest References are of a higher priority than Player Knowledge, so with that in mind I would also place Plague's End before Fate of the Gods for that reason, and if I were to do that, I would place Plague's End very early in the 6th age, as it would better explain the appearance of the Seren emissary as part of the elven-human relations improvement attempt as explained in the end of Plague's End, rather than in the unexplained presence it had before.
Those are just a couple examples that would show a cause for reason that a 6th age quest could take place before another regardless of release dates, Hos, prior to the dialogue addition, was a potential other depending on how you look at it.
Anyway, I realize the much easier route would be to accept them as a release date order, I also realize that this whole process is the very definition of over-complicating things. Lastly, I also am fully aware that the very concept of this project is a direct contradiction to Jagex's own intentions - as I explained in my previous post.
If I had ever gave reason to imply otherwise on any of the above things though, please tell me.
07-Feb-2015 18:48:32
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