Sword Art Online - Game Mechanics and Technology [for Novel Readers, with Spoilers]
The purpose of this thread is for novel readers of Sword Art Online to discuss and speculate about the various game mechanics and technologies shown in the Sword Art Online novels (and the adaptations of said novels, including the anime).
If you are an anime-only viewer and do not want be spoiled, please use the Game Mechanics and Technology Speculation Thread instead! Some on-topic ideas for discussion in this thread:
What do we know/have we been told about these systems and issues? Do the explanations given make sense? Are there plot holes or seeming flaws? What are the drawbacks of the approaches described, and how could they be addressed? If you wish to ask questions about the systems shown, please use the Q&A Thread. This thread is for novel readers to speculate and discuss about the systems, how they are portrayed to work, and whether they are feasible in reality. Spoiler tags are not required but please use discretion when revealing major plot information or details from later novels. |
Since this is an LN only thread, then wouldn't it cover AmuSphere's System as well? (I mean, in a gamer's sense, AmuSphere is almost like NervGear with performance boosts...and less immersion.)
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^ Well, since relentlessflame isn't totally spoiled, he wouldn't know of that. Since this is for novel readers, I guess we can even talk about STL here LOL. And I guess he won't be moderating this thread (not that this thread needs much since it's for LN readers). :heh:
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(I also debated, per your suggestion, whether to create a thread just for the current arc of the novels... but again, that would give away part of the story... so yeah.) |
Ok... let's start with depicting what are the non-canon stories that might probably be brushed off when depicting modern story. Like <<Versus>> and <<There is one but ultimate way>>.
Should those stories be actually counted in discussion? Second, is VR in 2022 a little bit too advanced? I mean, sure, we have 3D right now, and someone has already worked on a Kinect-powered AR, but I still feel that we're still off of discovering such a thing. I mean when you look at the Biotech world, has there been progress about interpreting neuro-signals? |
We've got monkeys feeding themselves with robot arms and paralyzed people controlling computer screens with their minds. I think that end is making steady progress.
The other side though, the part where they send carefully controlled senses into your brain, is a lot harder though. When it comes to "output" the person doing the controlling can adjust themselves to compensate for any interpretation errors, but for "input" the computer has to be perfect in the first place. I think this part is pretty unreasonable. And let's not even get into the "AI that fixes all the bugs and writes the quests" thing. |
Let's put it this way. The events of chapter 2 in Alicization will be enough to create more than half the debate and speculation over here. I'm not going to spoil it though.
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By the way, I'm foreseeing plenty of debates here. Hope that everyone can keep things civil, and not go into raging and personal attacks or unreasonable de-rep sprees.:heh: If I do have the time to make quality detailed posts, I'll probably be one of those getting shot by the fanatics. (Have mercy on me). :heh: That being said, I might not have the time after all, since things go back and forth and I don't want to make too many biased opinionated statements without backing up some of the stuff I said with links to publications (which I need time to find those books and refer to the biblio I've read a long time ago) |
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In the same way so would the brain adapt itself to any minor faults in a VR rig and get more used to those senses as time goes by. |
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In general though, it's always been their excuse for why the game is so free of bugs despite never being tested past floor 9. And how there can be so many quests, since the game is ridiculously huge. Quote:
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Well, <<Cardinal>> is more of a quest generator and statistics analyst than a real AI program in my opinion. I mean, if he was so smart then he would have had a "patch that fixes <<Sleep PKs>>". Then again, maybe that was part of the entire gameplay after all.
I mean, even a 10 year old child can create some kind of story from scratch, after all. XD <<Cardinal>> just happens to create a story by analyzing <<Norse Mythology>> from different Internet sources, I think. |
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Hmm... the only thing missing would probably be how to actually insert back the necessary brain waves necessary to change the 5 senses of the brain... well... okay let's just start with the 4 senses of the brain first. (taste excluded) then go for interpretting brain waves for controlling the various parts of the body. It might just be possible by a long shot. |
Why would taste be harder than the others? Although in SAO they specifically note how the taste function is a bit more primitive.
Although honestly the system needs to include the sense of balance too or else absolutely everyone will get insane motion sickness. |
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Example: 10 players found a suitable spot to level (as in legendarily good). Then it the players flock there. According to <<Cardinal>> and based on the players' actions, it will analzye the EXP and battles around that area and eventually conclude that it's <<unfair>> and move on... ...and so on and so forth... Hey, I just realized a good idea for MMOs. (it's possible to do!) |
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OTOH, when Cardinal was mentioned in Calibur, Kirito and Klein point out that it came out with some rather broken repeatable quests. So it's certainly not perfect. Then again, how good does your code engine have to be to produce a "<cough> <cough>, I'm sick and need ten wolf pelts to get better", "Oh my, I'm feeling much better now, unfortunately I won't be able to work today either, could you collect ten boar pelts for me?", "Thanks so kindly adventurer, I wanted to take my wife out for a date in big city X today, could you collect twenty five rabbit pelts for me? I'll give you this wonderful piece of pocket lint and a healing potion in exchange". |
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