User blog comment:Bkiddyman/Concerns About Epic Saga/@comment-30431739-20110620152527/@comment-3187795-20110622025836

Well, then I'll bring it back with my thoughts on the content of the blog.

ES the video game should be renamed to Epic Saga. ES history should be renamed Epic Saga (Series) that has the story and other stuff.

I talked about maturity already.

No more Epic Sagas is good for now. But we have to clear figure out the storyline. Then we can decide if there should be another. No more for now. This rant goes into my next point. We don't have a storyline yet. We have an idea of what the general plot is, we have most of the character roster, and we have a whole tone of dialog. Wonderful. How about we figure about what should happen more specifically, (like alliances/diplomacy, planets, events, battles, etc) and then figure out the very specific dialog. Nothing against it, but I don't think the series is mature enough for it yet. It needs to grow enough so we can see how it will turn out first before you can how it should talk. (FYI i am a HUGE fan of the current dialogs. But if we don't know where the series is going, would your efforts be wasted by writing for something that we decide won't happen? unlikely, but I have to bring it up) If you two have the plan posted and I did not get the link, I'd love it.

And, for this I will rephrase my third point. Don't bother with characters yet. They could end up being very important to the final draft of the series, and we could write them out now and lose their unique input to the characters. Put simply, decide on the role you need in the series and then see if certain characters will fit. Not the other way around.