[quote=“Profugo Barbatus, post:19, topic:12815”][quote=“Subhazard, post:18, topic:12815”]Problem with EMP is that it would wipe out ALL tech, including everything else.
Problem with ‘cloud’ is that you wouldn’t be able to access that data unless you also turned on the entire cloud.
So, those both have massive logical holes.[/quote]
Its possible (And even somewhat common) to build a concrete structure to accidentally behave like a faraday cage. So the EMP effect could be nullified at random due to some amusing engineering quirks. Not to mention all the nuclear war preppers that already exist in the universe, they’d probably have caged their buildings too. Military infrastructure would be similarly shielded, as would most vehicles.
Cloud wise, the entire cloud wouldn’t have to be turned on. Caching is an extremely common thing, and would be even more important in a full-cloud world. With the right computer skill plus a bit of game-logic sprinkled atop, you’d be able to view the last few pages accessed on the machine. Doubly so if the computer is running, and they just left it up.
Really, the logic isn’t that hard to work around. Its ultimately all gonna be inferred by the player as opposed to told to them. They’ll see a handful of working machines, or recoverable drives ,and the majority just broken or unrecoverable. If they come to the forums and read lore-posts, they’ll see reasons, otherwise they’ll probably come to their own conclusions which make sense to them. A few might question it, but ultimately its a story telling method, not a critical game mechanic. If there’s any holes, they’d not matter much.
Either way, I’d accept “recovering the last thing viewed” from some machines/drives. Keeps most information relevant to the few days leading to the cataclysm, and makes enough sense internally for me to take it.[/quote]
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Okay but then you’d have fully functioning computers in these ‘shielded’ buildings.
EMP is very sloppy.
Also, all cars wouldn’t work, because the computers would be wiped out.
We can do better. We don’t have to use the first idea we come up with and then try to forcefully cram it into a logical world. We have time.
Why not a power surge along the grid that knocked out most computers, so you have to recover hard drives to get to the data. Would allow for mobile devices to be unaffected, and would explain why all the lights are off, and the appliances dont work.
All the fuses are out, basically.