There's one thing I don't get: why do the Nomai need to hook their memories up to the Ash Twin project? They don't experience all the loops beforehand, and since the probe is hooked up all they would see is the coordinates for the Eye of the Universe appear 22 minutes before they blow up the sun. Why do the statues activate to save their memories and induct them into the time loop when all they need to see are coordinates or a failure message to just call off the sun explosion?
>>733688585Define "need to." The Nomai are the polar opposite of a "needs to" civilization.
>>733688659I said: all they would experience is the loop after they find the eye, so they will just see the coordinates and call off the solar station right then and there.
They mention fearing trapping the universe in an endless cycle I believe, and that saving their minds would let them manage anything going wrong. Obviously a well founded fear.
I suppose if there was some kind of equipment failure that didn't outright give an error message then they wouldn't really have any way of solving it since they'd be stuck in a loop without knowing it.
>>733688896Ok, but the heads only activate if they find the eye or if there's an error, so they would just call off the explosion if they get either. There's no way they could know if the system doesn't
>>733688585If you're talking about the statues that activate at the start of the game I think it's maybe mentioned as a failsafe, presumably in case someone fucked up and triggered the sun station they'd get advance warning of it by the statue flashing someone and then they'd be able to loop until they resolved it and then probably disconnect themself from the system
>>733688585so that they don't accidentally get caught in an infinite loop
>>733689010You could also just assume that it's mostly just for gameplay reasons, and also to give the player a red herring. Or the Nomai just wanted as many safety protocols/failsafes as possible because of what would happen if something went wrong.
They only had the resources to send the probe once.
>>733688803>>733688585If they fuck up and take too long to turn off the sun station they'd be trapped in the loop, retard
>>733689247Wouldn't it just be a button? Also, even if that were the case they could just hold out for another 10 million cycles and try again and spare the effort, since they wouldn't feel it anyways
>>733688585They don't have long enough to to search the universe for the eye the statues are there so they can keep searching longer than their lifespan. I suppose the idea was when they found it they'd either call off the nova or just beeline to the eye. The statues are essentially to compound knowledge the way human knowledge of science has compounded since forever. Then again I might be misunderstanding what you're saying
I think using spoilers for an OW thread is retarded, people who haven't finished the game don't enter these threads because they know it'll be full of spoilers.
>>733690119I think you're retarded. Spoilers exist to prevent people being spoiled. You don't need to enter the thread to read the opening post (or if you're not in catalog mode, the most recent posts). Think, nigger. Think.
>>733688585What >>733689047 said. Remember that the statues are only set to go off under two conditions the Eye being found, and as a failsafe if there is an issue. It's also pretty safe to assume that they assumed you only be looped once in the case of troubleshooting the issue, and they'd completely turn everything off once they got what they wanted out of it. They never intended some primitive sexless frogs to be trapped for hundreds of thousands of years bumbling around trying to figure everything they built out from scratch.
>>733688585tranny game
