Rise of the Battlemage (Poll)
Added 2025-01-04 16:59:00 +0000 UTCHello everyone! This is one of those "testing the waters" type polls, where I see how you guys feel about something rather than getting you guys to make a concrete choice. I have been considering giving Battlemage a time skip, both to let things settle, and to skip over some of the boring logistical stuff. The time skip could be anywhere from days to weeks to even months. What do you guys think?
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Yeah like the others have said, Time Skips are fine and even essential to empire building stories. Nobody wants to read about a day by day replaying of brick layers building a wall. Besides with droids doing 90% of the construction on things like a star port and city infrastructure or laying the foundation for a Shipyard and A-Wing construction lines in can't imagine it's be a massive time skip. Months at most would be my bet. A small "this happened" chapter containing what's changed (maybe as a sort of look back) would make alot of sense if the changes are milestones. My only concern is Yoda. Dude doesn't have alot of time left so depending on length he might die off screen as it were.
Fortunis
2025-01-05 17:57:15 +0000 UTCTimeskips are essential in stories that involve a lot of logistical work in the background. Particularly sci-fi. They aren't building a city or planet up any time soon without it, nor are they building a fleet or recruiting enough people for it. A timeskip allows a lot of leway in that regard and gets us past the boring interim. If you feel there is something important that could have gone on during the timeskip, but wasn't worth dragging us through the boring stuff to get to it, then you can always do a recap/flashback chapter to explain it in more detail. Maybe something triggers the memory of it or something.
SwiftFate
2025-01-05 02:20:00 +0000 UTCAre you talking about Marvelous Mage, the inspired inventor one? Because while Battlemage should absolutely keep studying over a timeskip, it's not an automatic increase, and him rocking up with a dozen new spells and some perks doesn't seem like it'd be that disruptive to me
Mr Mouse
2025-01-04 19:19:04 +0000 UTCThe only concern I have is that unlike other hero’s his power doesn’t stop growing. I forget the exact time frame but every month or so he gains new powers. That doesn’t lend itself to time skips. It makes it too easy to pull out deus ex machina
Jeffrey Smith
2025-01-04 18:43:11 +0000 UTCwhy not have mini flashbacks not one big flashback but mini ones to show what been going on or even have it look like a new report on the star wars' internet or as a propaganda new report!
david potts
2025-01-04 18:05:20 +0000 UTCIt's why the last one shouldn't really be an option. Fun is entirely up to interpretation to every individual if you go based on fun a lot of people probably aren't gonna have fun. You prefer drama and the interactions between characters. I prefer the battle scenes and the strategy build up.
John
2025-01-04 17:39:51 +0000 UTCBOXI’S RESURRECTION
Nicholas Rambusch
2025-01-04 17:21:34 +0000 UTCI would say the last option but I’m worried about what others consider fun. I personally skip any battle scenes unless they are messing with canon characters or show off new abilities.
Kyle
2025-01-04 17:21:05 +0000 UTCI think time skips are important. Both long and short. Without timeskips a story ends up unraveling unreasonably quickly in-universe. As you already likely know with the 'meteoric rise' of the SV. On the other hand, we're on a rather active period of the war. All in all, I think you can comfortably use time skips much like how SW itself uses them. Skipping forwards to more exciting events. But I personally wouldn't mind seeing a bit more of the mundane life of the Skyforged during this time skip. If you know A Nerubians Journey, they do half chapters (i.e 20.5, 30.5...) where they show more daily life, or events that don't really fit into the overarching narrative. This could be a nice way to get other POVs and show what's going on during a time skip.
DrettTheBaron
2025-01-04 17:12:25 +0000 UTCA 10 year time skip would put this story firmly out of the Empire Era and into au/legends era. Or worse Disney canon.
John
2025-01-04 17:08:08 +0000 UTCSo a chapter giving a brief overview of the progress made on those 2 projects and then continue on.
John
2025-01-04 17:06:58 +0000 UTCTime skips can be a great narrative tool, like a movie used a montage lol. Just please don't gloss over awesome shit happening, lol
Cole Deucalion
2025-01-04 17:06:11 +0000 UTCI feel like specifically for the rebellion era they've done extremely well for themselves. However, recently they have attracted the personal attention of Vader. With that said I feel like Deacon would probably take time to build up both Nirn and probably spend some time supply running. So I could definitely see a point where maybe a couple months go by while they get built up. Maybe the other teams do some light raids that aren't worth mentioning but overall the main priority is just building up the settlement at nirn to include the starport as well as set up the lucerhulk as a defense platform.
John
2025-01-04 17:05:51 +0000 UTCI don't mind time skips as long as they aren't like 10 years long lmfao
Probably_Satan_NGL
2025-01-04 17:00:27 +0000 UTCI'm fine with them as long as they're helping the story move along. I'd rather a time skip than a bunch of filler chapters.
David Zimmerle
2025-01-04 17:00:23 +0000 UTC
