ValHallen
Aug 25, 2014
ValHallen, how did you scoop up all those pictures? I can't seem to find them on the normal twitter (I can't use twitter well).
And who is that ex bounty hunter? She looks really cool! 
The pictures are on twitter, you just need to dig really deep to find them
Exizel
Aug 26, 2014
The romances are:
Alex: Mira/Mizuki Nigel/Samuel
Diana: Xavier/Lucius Charlotte/Graciela
Wait....Nigel? i thought his name was Rigel, oh and I saw that Xavier was a mechanic, are you going to change that because of Rigel or will the game have 2 mech?
I guess that Rigel was born because Diana became the female protagonist and Xavier was given to her so you.
Why do we play has Alex now? story reason? or to put the two protagonist to the same level of importance?
jack1974
Aug 27, 2014
Yes sorry the name is Rigel, got confused!
Yes change was introduced to give the two protagonists same level of importance, otherwise wouldn't have been fair vs female players
ValHallen
Aug 27, 2014
Yes sorry the name is Rigel, got confused!
Yes change was introduced to give the two protagonists same level of importance, otherwise wouldn't have been fair vs female players
Diana repeled a alien attack on the colony, Alex defended a remote base from a few robotbrains.
They doens't seem to have the same level of importance
jack1974
Aug 27, 2014
I meant for the game story, not their original backstory - if Alex was John Nelson, then no matter how you play/write the story, in Planet Stronghold everyone would talk only about him, even if you played as Diana and killed 150million of enemies. So players would wonder (rightfully) WTF?
Sylrissa
Aug 27, 2014
When I heard you could play as both Alex or Diana, it was the single best news I'd heard about this game to date.
Miakoda
Aug 27, 2014
Diana repel a alien attack on the colony, Alex defended a remote base from a few robotbrains.
They doens't seem to have the same level of importance
While not mentioned in the profile (which it should have been), Alex led a counter-attack which destroyed the Robobrain nest, as well as capturing some specimens for further examination (and of much interest to the psionic division).
jack1974
Aug 27, 2014
Since we're planning to include a sort of "codex" in the game, or at least each hero profile, will update his with the extra info mentioned by Miakoda
JunkGirl_Junko
Aug 27, 2014
Good to see that Xavier is brazilian!
not many brazilians out there for me to relate
Everyone looks so beautiful! Looking forward for this one.
Foelhe
Aug 30, 2014
Out of curiosity, what's the in-character reason Lucius is only a romance for a female character? I know the game needs to be balanced along gender lines, I'm just wondering why an android would care what gender they were romancing.
Miakoda
Aug 30, 2014
Out of curiosity, what's the in-character reason Lucius is only a romance for a female character? I know the game needs to be balanced along gender lines, I'm just wondering why an android would care what gender they were romancing.
Depending on how things are set, an android wouldn't be as concerned about gender in and of themselves; after all, if you put their CPU/brain in a breadbox, they wouldn't even look humanoid. Of course, if they spend some time around humanity, they feel a gravitation to a certain 'gender' (if any) fits themselves as well.
However, in this case, it was more along the lines of who was more likely to approach the android for a 'romance'.
Exizel
Aug 30, 2014
So I guess Alex and Diana have very differents personality; I like the fact that the reason we can't romance him has Alex isn't because Lucius has a "gender", I never really like the "it's not a human man/woman but it look's like one so it's going to act exactly like one for no explore reason" types of tropes.
Now I think about it PS2 has 2 "straight" alien which I think is pretty weird, if you're going to jump the species' barrier to stop at that species' "gender barrier" is kind weird.
jack1974
Aug 31, 2014
The real reason behind it, was to not go overboard, to avoid making *every char* bisex/asexual and having 500 romances, and release the game in 2020. See what's happening to Loren 2, delayed year after year (and I don't even know WHEN will be out) because I definitely exaggerated with the romances amount (was my choice of course, but so it will be my choice to limit the games' future romances and not always listen to users on this subject, since they'd want to "romance all sprites!" anyway if I ask them
). I think is better to have less romances but to actually get the games out
In summary I can understand why maybe you'd want to romance Lucius as Alex, as much as I would have liked to romance Charlotte as Alex or Mira as Diana. But sometimes as developer (and player) you need to make compromises
From the story perspective, this:
However, in this case, it was more along the lines of who was more likely to approach the android for a 'romance'.
makes sense - a romance happens when BOTH parts are interested, not just one. So in this case Diana is more likely to form a sort of bond with Lucius. You'll see better when the romance is written but obviously, in this specific case everything is a bit odd/platonic
Now I think about it PS2 has 2 "straight" alien which I think is pretty weird, if you're going to jump the species' barrier to stop at that species' "gender barrier" is kind weird.
You refer to Shiler ? Well, there's more beside that. Also Lakadema is an transgender alien and can be romanced by both. Again the reason is because of budget/releasing the game but also from story perspective, if you can't romance Lisa with Shiler doesn't mean that SHE is not interested in Lisa - simply the story doesn't allow that. Like in real life you don't make love/get in love with all your possible partners, real-life stuff happens, etc. OK I hope managed to explain
but basically what Miakoda said.
Exizel
Aug 31, 2014
You refer to Shiler ? Well, there's more beside that. Also Lakadema is an transgender alien and can be romanced by both. Again the reason is because of budget/releasing the game but also from story perspective, if you can't romance Lisa with Shiler doesn't mean that SHE is not interested in Lisa - simply the story doesn't allow that. Like in real life you don't make love/get in love with all your possible partners, real-life stuff happens, etc. OK I hope managed to explain but basically what Miakoda said.
I was refering to both her and Avae. I was just curious if this was a story reason or a budget one and I got my answer, I tend to forget that Lakadema is a trangerder and not a woman, probably because I see her has milo's counterpart.
jack1974
Aug 31, 2014
No problems. Always remember that if was for me I would always try to make customers happy but sometimes I need to stop for a moment and ask myself "wait, this was supposed to be a SMALL GAME, right??"
Foelhe
Aug 31, 2014
Out of curiosity, what's the in-character reason Lucius is only a romance for a female character? I know the game needs to be balanced along gender lines, I'm just wondering why an android would care what gender they were romancing.
Depending on how things are set, an android wouldn't be as concerned about gender in and of themselves; after all, if you put their CPU/brain in a breadbox, they wouldn't even look humanoid. Of course, if they spend some time around humanity, they feel a gravitation to a certain 'gender' (if any) fits themselves as well.
However, in this case, it was more along the lines of who was more likely to approach the android for a 'romance'.
Ah, so it's a character thing. Got you, that makes sense.
The real reason behind it, was to not go overboard, to avoid making *every char* bisex/asexual and having 500 romances, and release the game in 2020. See what's happening to Loren 2, delayed year after year (and I don't even know WHEN will be out) because I definitely exaggerated with the romances amount (was my choice of course, but so it will be my choice to limit the games' future romances and not always listen to users on this subject, since they'd want to "romance all sprites!" anyway if I ask them ). I think is better to have less romances but to actually get the games out
Right, I hope it didn't come off like I thought you should make him bi. I'm a tiny bit disappointed, but I know how many different things you have to balance for the game. Mostly I was just wondering if we'd find out why he'd go for Diana but not Alex.
Miakoda
Aug 31, 2014
Oh, we weren't bothered Foelhe. Exizel did ask a great question, after all
And everyone has been really good about understanding choices, limits, etc.
ValHallen
Sep 04, 2014
So... Where is the romance preview?
jack1974
Sep 04, 2014
Need more, I have only Alex straight romances for now. Once I have all Alex romances will do the usual sneak preview
Considering this artist speed probably will be ready in 1-2 weeks max !
ValHallen
Sep 06, 2014
Mizuki casual cloth
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