The Ruins

* See also Ruins (Real World Ruined Places)
* See also New Rapture
* See also Game_Bosses and Rapture Factions
* See also Maps
One Person's Comment : 'What strikes you first about "The Ruins" is the persistent smell of urine" 
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"The Ruins" is a name given by the New Rapture Citizens to all the parts of Rapture which haven't begun to be Rebuilt. There you will see the devastation of 'civil war' fighting (and of later conflicts), lack of maintenance, willful destruction, and inhabitation in ways not originally intended.
An interesting feature of the MMORPG would be a visible progress of exploration/repairs/rebuilding happening in Rapture (being done by the Players). Because of an integral Auto-Generation system, Rapture can expand outward AND inward continuously to allow the Game World to progress without limit. Even old locations would mutate and change, as new Assets were added through the other integral element of the game : Player Creation.
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Law of the Jungle (Kipplingesque) :
Right is on the side of the Strongest. With the Player encountering this Philosophy ( out there in Rapture's Ruins ) and dealing with it.
Yet there STILL are Social Conventions within New Rapture, which the Player must observe, OR ignore to their own detriment. ( As explained elsewhere - Auto Enforcement to deter Players from exploiting the games freedoms ). Some people will still do it just to see what happens.
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Heart of Darkness :
Section of Rapture with the lights are off (all broken !!) and only the Splicers can see in the dark.
With Morlocks lurking, and noises in the dark ( which stop when you shine your light in that direction ).
One of those never released Plasmids - Cats Eye - Which allows the user(Splicer) to see in complete darkness ( and a disconcerting countenance as it gives you huge Hello Kitty cat eyes. )
It would be an interesting situational variation - Where most of your surroundings are unseen, so things move (sometimes quite close to you) and you never know. You are used to spotting targets in your front view at a glance, but now you have to shine your light (hopefully you have one) about with things getting in the way, clutter, mists and streams of water obscuring a clear view.
Things are hurled at you out of the dark. Goons come at you out of the dark. Targets move suddenly out of your view. Very disconcerting.
Magnesium Flares have a definite value in such situations.
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 "The Shadows" : 
Another part of Rapture where the utilities are off ... Darkness (Air not to good often too).
* Bioluminescence can be easily seen in the near darkness (nice pretty colors)
* Glowing eyes is a good effect 
* Does directional sound work well enough to hint where something is moving in the dark (more than right/left) ??
* Fires only where there's good ventilation still working
* Heating Systems breakdown - cold too
== Ruins (REAL Ruined Places) ==
* See also The_Ruins ( Much of the MMORPG Rapture )
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==Ruins==
If you browse about the internet you can find numerous picture sites with pictures of (recently) old abandoned places ( from across the World ). Nice examples of what real lived in places look when (often suddenly) abandoned -- a good resource for MMORPG expanded representation of the rest of Rapture.
GardenOfTheMusesRuins.jpg
SinclairDeluxeIfItMetStoryline.jpg
Weirdz.jpg
Loungehasseenbetterdayz.jpg
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So there is lots of potential to show more of that beloved environment in the MMORPG.
A creepy and fun setting the Player can mess about in (and then go back to New Rapture where order is restored).
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I think I know now where they got the wheel mechanism from ontop the AE Trains. Unfortunately it applies something that was WRONG for what they used it for. A Crane mechanism (this thing) hangs a chain/cable down - a single vector of suspension support ( It is Far more complex if you try to hang from 2 Points ).
Unfortunately A Train car is long. It wants to swing forward and back (particularly under propulsion). The wheels (track support points) need to be FAR further apart to stop that problem.
Notice that the Infinite game's Skyline 'Train' boxcars in Infinite BS are similar to this bad design - WITH an even more defective application ( and an 'artists' ignorance of how Real things HAVE TO work - particularly for too many 'game' artists ).
DONT EVER ALLOW AN ARTIST TO DESIGN SOMETHING YOU DEPEND YOUR LIFE ON. - Henry Ford
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