I really don't get what's going on here, so if anyone could explain to me, I'd love to hear it...
Some time ago, there was an entry under YMMV talking about the Idiot Plot, how Eike has to find the most complex and roundabout way to prevent his own death. The example used was that he travelled all the way to the 1500s to prevent a tree from being planted so the assassin couldn't hide behind said tree to stab him... instead of just not going near that tree, or looking over his shoulder, or anything like that.
But, as I explained under that entry at the time, the game goes to great lengths to explain why it has to be this way. Eike can't just escape the killer by not going where he's going to be killed, because the Eike you're controlling is NOT the same Eike that's being killed. The death is destined to occur the way it happened the first time, and the Eike that is going to get killed can't do anything to avoid it. That's why the Eike that travels back in time has to find another way of preventing the death, be it by removing the killer from the scene, or appearing in disguise to his other self and handing him a hint written on a piece of paper - a scene which, incidentally, proves my point that there are two Eikes running around when you time travel.
All that has now been erased from the YMMV section, and there's a new "Complexity Addiction" entry in the main section describing all the "hare-brained" schemes Eike uses to prevent his own death, when he could just avoid going to the place where he's going to be killed... i.e., the same thing I already explained he HAS to do, according to the game's rules.
Now, I don't want to engage in an editing war. In fact, my YMMV entry had already been erased by someone who didn't like what I had to say, but the mods explained to me this was not OK, so I rewrote it and sent a message to the troper who had deleted it explaining the situation, and all was good for a couple of years. But now it's all gone again, and I feel this is important information to understand the game. Which means that the Complexity Addiction entry is spreading misinformation, so to speak. At least, it's not taking the information I have already posted here (twice!) into consideration. So, can anyone tell me what I should do in this case? Should I just post my explanation (again) as a sub-point in the "Complexity Addiction" entry?
I really don't get what's going on here, so if anyone could explain to me, I'd love to hear it...
Some time ago, there was an entry under YMMV talking about the Idiot Plot, how Eike has to find the most complex and roundabout way to prevent his own death. The example used was that he travelled all the way to the 1500s to prevent a tree from being planted so the assassin couldn't hide behind said tree to stab him... instead of just not going near that tree, or looking over his shoulder, or anything like that.
But, as I explained under that entry at the time, the game goes to great lengths to explain why it has to be this way. Eike can't just escape the killer by not going where he's going to be killed, because the Eike you're controlling is NOT the same Eike that's being killed. The death is destined to occur the way it happened the first time, and the Eike that is going to get killed can't do anything to avoid it. That's why the Eike that travels back in time has to find another way of preventing the death, be it by removing the killer from the scene, or appearing in disguise to his other self and handing him a hint written on a piece of paper - a scene which, incidentally, proves my point that there are two Eikes running around when you time travel.
All that has now been erased from the YMMV section, and there's a new "Complexity Addiction" entry in the main section describing all the "hare-brained" schemes Eike uses to prevent his own death, when he could just avoid going to the place where he's going to be killed... i.e., the same thing I already explained he HAS to do, according to the game's rules.
Now, I don't want to engage in an editing war. In fact, my YMMV entry had already been erased by someone who didn't like what I had to say, but the mods explained to me this was not OK, so I rewrote it and sent a message to the troper who had deleted it explaining the situation, and all was good for a couple of years. But now it's all gone again, and I feel this is important information to understand the game. Which means that the Complexity Addiction entry is spreading misinformation, so to speak. At least, it's not taking the information I have already posted here (twice!) into consideration. So, can anyone tell me what I should do in this case? Should I just post my explanation (again) as a sub-point in the "Complexity Addiction" entry?
Edited by Truehare