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[madopal]

Encom International

[hughesst]

As for the blinking cities, I'm sure people have already worked on this but I was bored so there. The definite ones are:

LA, NYC, Lima, London, and Tokyo

The two stand outs for me are the ones in Norway and Australia. One would assume Oslo in Norway but the dot doesn't match up, and there's really no city near that location that would make sense. With Australia you might automatically think Sydney but that's also in a completely different location and the dot matches up with Darwin as best as I can figure.

[spaceboy]

At the moment, I don't think there's anything to it other than adding some more depth to the game. I'm sure it will come to serve a purpose at some point though.

I'm unsure about the blinking cities as of yet. They might represent places where Encom tech is about to go live or something. Maybe the misplaced dots were just errors?

[hughesst]

Just for future reference if need be:

Flashing:
LA
NYC
Lima, Peru
London, England
Oslo, Norway?
Tokyo, Japan
Darwin, Australia


Non Flashing:
Vancouver, BC
Seattle, WA
Denver, CO
Houston, TX
Minneapolis, MN
St. Louis, MO
Washington, DC
Hermosillo, Mexico
San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Barquisimeto, Venezuela
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Punta Arenas, Chile
Glasgow, Scotland
Dublin, Ireland
Marrakech, Morrocco
Madrid, Spain
Paris, France
Berlin, Germany
Bologna, Italy
Joensuu, Finland (Maybe Helsinki)
Chisinau, Moldova???
Istanbul, Turkey
?, Mozambique
?, South Africa
?, India
?, Philippines
?, Taiwan

[spaceboy]

Good work, hughesst. You are a true geographer. All of that could very well come in handy later.

[Broklynite]

Hm. In the forums they talk about the importance of GPS. Maybe some sort of coordinates (lat and long?) from the cities will glean some info?

[Waterborn2o2p]

I tried to enter the GPS coords for the screenings in the derez site with no luck, perhaps trying the 5 flashing locations (minus the two "misplaced" cities) will lead to something?

Just saw the link is included in the resources thread.

[DarkJaguar]

I was thinking the samething, Waterborn.

[Broklynite]

[DarkJaguar]

SO...
Press Conference...
(http://www.aintitcool.com/node/44125)

I have a conflicted theory...
If we take the message literally.. it's a -convention-... which there's no tech cons, and about a dozen comic/sci/fan cons "forthcoming" (i'm giving it the window of the first half of the month.)

If we assume that, per usual AICN style, it's a paraphrasing...
then the best bet would be the Game Developers Conference in San Fran March 9th-13th....

Any other possibilities?

[DarkJaguar]

[quote="Broklynite"]

[Nighthawk]

[NickButler]

[DarkJaguar]

Even sooner Emerald City Comic-Con (Seattle, WA) and MegaCon (Orlando, FL) are March 12th-14th.

And just a random note, that's not really anything to note... but just to be accurate...
on /offices.htm

that's not Seattle. That's Portland, OR. The next one up is Vancouver, BC.

[MrToasty]

GDC is next week; however, while it fits the in-game company profile, I doubt it suits the real-life campaign.