** A big theme of stories like this is that a temporary lapse of ethics tends to become a permanent lapse of ethics (even if you don't [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope fall the rest of the way down the slippery slope]], it's still difficult to climb back up). Call it ethical inertia. Just because you can go from demonic to IncorruptiblePurePureness by eating a couple of pounds of celery and giving away some gold [[GameplayAndStorySegregation doesn't mean your character's really going through such changes]]. A major theme of stories like this is TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: It's quite significant (so much so that it's considered a twist by some) that Logan never forgot his reason, and he could have meant to change everything once things were resolved (that being a possible reason as to why he didn't take steps as drastic as an Evil player character would). And, most importantly, who's to say that you wouldn't just continue your ways to prepare for the next invasion, and the next, until the whole world is finally safe within your iron fist? Not you[[hottip:*:(that is, not your character, I'm not referring to you the troper)]]. Nobody trusts the tyrant who says "Just a little longer, and then I'll change. [[IronicEcho I promise]]".

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*** I, too quite agree! Some of the choices aren't even for the right reason. I chose not to dam the river in Millifields because it would flood the surrounding area, not because Page thought the lake was too pretty to drain. Reaver sabotaged his own side with the "dump the sewage into Mourningwood" plan because I was thinking about how good it would be for the plants (especially if we enacted a regulation regarding separate disposal of urine and "fertilizer" to avoid having a botanist cry over the ammonia), and was tempted to go through with it anyway simply out of spite for that prattling, hypocritical hippie. I found myself wishing by Day 100 (if not well before)that the developers had, if not [[AwesomeButImpractical made more choices]], then at least let you choose the tone of your response to each choice (I'm still hoping to find a mod for that in case I ever get the PC version). (On a related, personal note: I wanted to keep the balverine statue. Even if I couldn't study it or use it for my own nefarious/benevolent means, I could at least keep it out of the hands of the kind of people who would want to buy it in the first place.)

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23rd Jan '13 2:55:39 PM BardicFire

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18th Jan '13 10:38:45 PM Redazrael

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* For that matter, why does Logan or anyone else ''never notice'' that someone happens to be buying up a decent percentage of the real estate and every goddamn business between and including Bowerstone and Brightwall? Before I went to Aurora, I owned every single purchasable home and business in every city/town/hamlet/backwater hippie town/whatever. While I completely understand that it's strongly implied that there is a ''lot'' of Bowerstone (and probably other places) that you don't get to explore (those 6.5 million people certainly aren't represented in-game), I'm still buying up a good chunk of real estate. And I'm his ''younger sibling'' who is ''absolutely famous'' by the time I've gathered the necessary funds to attain all of this property. How did that manage to slip past Logan and every single one of the people who presumably work for him? It's even worse when you consider that the Hero is going to be ''repairing'' all of those homes in order to turn a profit, which means that in the case of Bowerstone Industrial alone, I singlehandedly uplifted an entire district's housing from being barely suitable for the slums (0% default house condition) to being somewhere decent to live. [--And possibly contributed to the further downfall of the economy, but ''that's not the point''.--]\\
I would have even settled for a throwaway line about it, but there's no indication at all that anyone noticed or cared that the runaway royal sibling who's consorting with the rebels is slowly taking control of a decent portion of the kingdom via judicious application of money by buying the shit out of everything in sight. This is a ''very viable way'' of gaining power, and an incredibly unsubtle one at that, yet it's never mentioned or even alluded to at any point.
* And partially related to the above, why isn't there a "repair all homes" option when you zoom in on a city on the Santuary Map? It's painfully tedious to go through and repair all of the houses individually. Why isn't there a way to do it in one fell swoop? Or, better yet, an option to have the repair costs for homes auto-deducted from your treasury once the house condition reaches a certain percentage?

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