Lighthouse

* See also Lighthouse Island
* Connected To Welcome_Center
* See also Hijacking_the_Plane
* See also Bathyspheres
* See also Construction
* See also Real World
* See also Amended_Game_Level_Maps
correct map with stairs sticking out back - maybe keep both ??? as it ruins outline in games version
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== A Guiding Symbol For A Haven For Civilization's Future ==
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Jack Arrives With A Convenient Bathysphere Waiting ... :
No, THAT is NOT highly Suspicious ... (???)
Would it not have been more Logical/Wise to NOT leave a Bathysphere up there at the Ocean surface ( in the Lighthouse ) -- where it might be a bit of a clue to Rapture's existence ?? Ryan is supposed to be Paranoid, Right ? Well, isn't such an open access evidence that he wasn't quite as paranoid as the writers tried to 'lay on' ?? Or is it just sloppy/lazy logic on the gamewriters' part - Their not letting Logic get in the way of their storyboarded Plot and 'Storyboarded' Scenes ? 
Perhaps that waiting Bathysphere was sent there for Jack's arrival ( in the logical case it wasn't normally 'left there' ) ? THEN that should have told Ryan that his system was NOT as 'locked down'/secure as it should have been, AND someone (Atlas ?) was up to something ??? SO : Perhaps more evidence Ryan knew what was going on, allowing my story about the whole Suicide thing by Ryan being faked, and it was really a setup against Fontaine/Atlas -- Ryan turning the tables. The MMORPG really needs to do something like that to fix that rather weak BS1 Plot 'Twist' -- With Ryan's Conning the Conman Fontaine -- THAT certainly would have been a more Epic Twist.
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Rapture Enigma - A Lighthouse For A "Hidden City" :
Lighthouse lights are quite powerful, and generally can be seen as far away as a ship can see it ( with curvature of the earth - 50 miles ? ) - and raised up to be seen further as well. Some of the most powerful lights ever built were put on Lighthouses ... Airplanes can see them even further.
Now that it can be seen ... WHAT is this light doing standing in 1000 meters (?) of water 200+ miles from nowhere ... Rapture is built on tiptop of a Sea Mount which just touches the ocean surface so actually isn't that deep. Would not THAT Sea Mount be on ocean maps as a navigation hazard ??  ( The Lighthouse is shown built upon rocks. ) A very odd looking Lighthouse too. Wasn't it rather stupid/odd/illogical that it was NOT torn down soon after 1952, when no one NEW would be coming to Rapture ?? ( THAT'S IF Ryan was as anywhere near as Paranoid about secrecy for Rapture -- as the writers implied ).  
But then, that would ruin the game's 'Arrival Scene', and the pretty/dramatic 'Burning Plane' effects/scene. ( BTW, ISN'T IT ALSO SO amazing how 4 years old Jack flew the plane so 'precisely' to CRASH less than 100 yards away -- Was Jack 'conditioned' with airplane flying lessons too ???  Seriously - There were bad Logic/Plot holes you could fly a Zeppelin through ... "The Lighthouse" then becomes a minor thing by comparison. )
You'd think Ryan could at least have turned the light off ?? ( And someone must have gone up periodically to change the bulbs ... )
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The Rapture Lighthouse is seen at the right, and is shown with a representative height rocky rise ( one un-erroded crater side ) of Mt Ryan to the Ocean's surface -- indicating the general depth of the seabed within the volcanic crater where the City is largely located.
Damn, the writers of Infinite BS missed the chance to make THEIR Lighthouse as Gianourmous as the Eiffel Tower.
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I would have thought that this ( Lighthouse Entrance ) would have ( at minimum ) been 'Locked Down' to avoid unwanted visitors ( the Big Sisters/Lamb's minions having Subs would have no need for the Lighthouse Bathysphere ). And any maintenance parties to the Lighthouse would 'lock it down' (there) when they went back home below. Certainly NOT leave a Bathysphere there to hint that something is far below. The Splicers attacking the boat Meltzer came on ?? ... In their own mini-subs over near the intruder's boat. Splicer(s) came up in the Lighthouse's Bathysphere to watch the fun ?? ... Sitting right where they could/would disembowel Meltzer, IF that was so.
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LIGHTNING ROD !!!
Ocean is FLAT. Lighthouse sticks UP 200+ feet.
Guess what happens a lot in Storms ????
So, a nice comprehensive/redundant 'Lightning Strike Suppression' System would be a good idea.
Potential for some 'garage scientist' using it for some high temperature experiments ?
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For The MMORPG the Lighthouse Is Being Torn Down : 
They (New Rapturites) still fear The Surface World ( with good reason ), so the risk is too much. The remaining connections to the Surface don't justify it continuing.
Strange that it hadn't been done already, but if Ryan was planning it, his 'death' sort of got in the way. It might be a 'symbol', but Ryan obviously was trying to keep Rapture secret ( so many of his actions emphasized that ), that it WOULD have been logical.
SO the MMORPG would have a ongoing project ( taking quite a while as it largely has to be done by hand, and various equipment has to be salvaged ). Certain of the Lighthouse's functions need to be preserved. It has transmitters, air siphons, the Bathysphere Station, the freight transfer dock ( Which STILL are used to get emergency shipments from Ryan's surviving Surface Industrial Organization ).
There might be a game 'trick', to show progress to the Player in this project, that alternate perceptions to each Player shows a different state with it depending on how long they have been playing. Their Client program just displays a different set of Assets than what other Players around them shows.
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Lighthouses Attract Attention :
BIG SHINEY LIGHT -- CAN SEE IT FOR 20 MILES ...
Lots of gaps in logic in the game, what's one more ?? Perhaps that 'lifeboat' thing Sinclair had at Persephone was to be a "Submergible" Lighthouse replacement ( never finished after Ryan was allegedly killed ). Despite Ryan's efforts, Rapture likely still was not self-sufficient, and authorized additional shipments of materials were brought in under controlled Security ... once in a while ( thus requiring the functioning of the Lighthouse to dock ships and to facilitate carrying cargo down to Rapture ... ) 
They have Ryan say alot of odd things that don't make sense ( built up to fit the Plot the writers had first contrived ). 
Lighthouse lights are quite powerful, and often can be seen as far away as a ship can see it ( curvature of the earth - 50 miles ? ) and being raised up to be seen further. Aircraft can see them from even longer distances. Even if the LIGHT is extinguished, the tall structure can still be seen on RADAR and during the day from many miles away.
Some of the most powerful lights ever built were put on lighthouses.
Now assuming that its been seen ... Whomever will think "What's that doing standing in 1000 meters of water 200+ miles from nowhere ????" ( Rapture is built on the upper part of a Sea Mount ( underwater volcano ) Mt_Ryan, which just touches the Ocean surface - We see the rock, so wouldn't something like THAT be on published maps as a Navigation Hazard ?? ) It is a very odd looking Lighthouse too. Perhaps the rock was built up a little to anchor the LightHouse structure, but still originally a shallow hazard to navigation.
Actually, I have thought it stupid/odd/illogical that it wasn't torn down soon after 1952 when additional people/supplies mostly stopped coming. If Ryan was as paranoid about secrecy for Rapture as they imply, isn't this rather strange ? There would be other ways to guide any further transport to the spot.
But that logic would ruin the game 'Scene', and the crashed/burning Plane effects ( ALSO, quite amazing how 4-years old Jack flew the plane so precisely to CRASH 100 yards away - was he conditioned with Airliner Jet flying training lessons too ??? Even a trained pilot has problems with such an accurate splashdown landing. More likely he forced the plane's pilot to do the flying and crash - Showing him holding a gun threateningly screaming at a pistol-whipped pilot kinda would have set a different tone about "Jack" for the game, No ??? ( Writer Manipulation via Omission ) 
YES, There are Logic/Plot Holes you 'Could fly a Zeppelin Through' ...
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We can satirize that ( with a Player Creation Contest ) - Lets inject fun into that 'Sea of Lighthouses' BS ...
* The Empire State Building (NYC) was like a lighthouse with its lit lantern-like top
* The Pharos Lighthouse, Caesar, and AlexandriaThat A Man, a Lighthouse and a City ( It is BTW actually A Man/Lighthouse/City/ADAM ... ) Retro story guff ... ( He did go there ... )
* Cat Tree Lighthouse ( one of those super cat-scratching-post constructions )
* Hugh Hefner had his Bunny Lighthouse ( The magazine first publication of "Playboy" was December 1953 ) ...
* Sander Cohen had to have 'at least one' Plasterpiece "Lighthouse" - with a 'Critic' impaled upon it (perhaps). Adjacent would be displayed his 'Sinker' art-piece and his take on 'The Thinker' ... 
* "The Lighthouse Plasmid" - Creation Contest for WHAT this thing did ...
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Lighthouses are Symbolic - but not really in matching this preposterous Fantasy Infinite story.
Lighthouses are NOT gateways to 'Other Worlds'. They are HAZARD WARNINGS for rocky/dangerous coastlines - and are something Constant and Trusted -- Which kinda goes contrary to Elizabeth's god powers Deus Ex Machina - using the appearance of a god being to work a story plot - a rather poor choice for a game pretending to be about 'Science'. enabling that quantum-flip wiping out universes AND entire lives ( and everything the Player did ).
Many Lighthouses serve as LANDMARKS - guiding ships to a safe haven or past a dangerous obstacle.
That Infinite Lighthouse at the start of the Infinite BS Game was a rather bizarre transport - a Mercury Rocket capsule blasting off (( They tried SO hard to copy BioShock that they zoomed off into hack writer Lala-land with their poor counterfeit. )).
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This 'Cool' Trip To Columbia ( like you were on drugs or dreaming or something ) - IT Should have been more like : 
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Perhaps after the Big Tall OBVIOUS Lighthouse was torn down, its replacement ( which could submerge into the Water when not needed ) would look like THIS. New Rapture in the MMORPG might have a plan to do this Project ( which may have been being prepared for by Ryan almost a decade earlier, before the 'civil war' interfered ).
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There is always a Man (Arthur) a City (Saint Denis) and A Lighthouse (Van Horn) ... 
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Another REAL Lighthouse :
The Harbor was just built/expanded at that time (1912) - and this maybe is more a "WE ARE HERE" civic type thing for the town of San Pedro San Pedro - On the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles California USA . (( OMG OMG - Motivations that are not just at a Simpletons level of Understanding !!!! )) 
It is also an example of contemporary ( Columbia, Infinite BS ) building techniques.
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THIS is the Lighthouse from Red Dead Redemption 2 ( at the Town of Van Horn ).
"There is always a Lighthouse, a Chimp and a Hotdog Cart ..." - Sinclair about "Carnival" in Rapture.
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==Forums : Always Quoted "THERE IS ALWAYS A LIGHTHOUSE" ... ( With Picture of anything remotely resembling a Lighthouse ... )==
( AND that 'saying' was never mentioned in the previous two games ... )
Strange Though : They didn't Mention : "THERE IS ALWAYS ADAM"
(( The Quantum Magic Potions were not explained in Infinite BS and it took a DLC to explain how that all was linked to their RetCon'ing of Our Rapture. Part of the Quantum Bullshit they came up with for the Third game : "Constants and Variables" ( another oft repeated Derp! ) was used to try to make the game sound all 'Sciencey' - When they had, at the same time, their story-created a 'Quantum god Elizabeth'. BTW : Real Quantum Mechanics is about Probabilities and NOT 'Constants' - But then, there was much that was BULLSHIT in Infinite BS ... ))
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Rapture's Lighthouse was to be a Beacon in a Degenerating Doomed World
THIS : Infinite Beacons Of Shit ? They at least could have made EVERY ONE Different.
SO, Each one has a Comstock that Elizabeth wants to get Revenge upon ???
Derivative. ( Uh ? No more Comstock ? Then WTF are these Lighthouses still around ??? )
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Well, "Wish Fulfillment" will take care of that.
Too bad there wasn't 4 Turrets Inside ( put there by Ryan to avoid another "Johnny Topside" incident ) which on detecting Intruders would Eliminate them.
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