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Title: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Statua on July 24, 2012, 11:30:29 PM
Time and Date

Date: Today's date +5 Years
7 Hour War Date: August 11th 2015


Location

Unofficial List

Cities:
City 1: New York City, U.S.A.
City 2: London, United Kingdom
City 3: Moscow, Russia
City 4: Anchorage, U.S.A.
City 5: Montreal, Canada
City 6: Islamabad, Pakistan
City 7: Berlin, Germany
City 8: Tokyo, Japan
City 9: Oslo, Norway
City 10: St. Petersburg, Russia.
City 11: Lhasa, Tibet
City 12: Seoul, South Korea
City 13: Pyongyang, North Korea
City 14: Paris, France
City 15: Cairo, Egypt
City 16: Ankara, Turkey
City 17: Kiev, Ukraine
City 18: Stockholm, Sweden
City 19: Venice, Italy
City 20: Tunis, Tunisian Republic
City 21: Madrid, Spain
City 22: Prague, Czech Republic
City 23: Mumbai, India
City 24: Lisbon, Portugal - Citadel
City 25: Jakarta, Indonesia
City 26: Osaka, Japan
City 27: Shanghai, China
City 28: Manila, Philippines
City 29: Los Angeles, U.S.A.
City 30: Kolkata, India
City 31: Lagos, Nigeria
City 32: Dhaka, Bangladesh
City 33: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
City 34: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
City 35: Hong Kong, China
City 36: Toronto, Canada
City 37: Phoenix, U.S.A.
City 38: Kharkiv, Ukraine
City 39: Athens, Greece
City 40: Melbourne, Australia
City 41: Cape Town, South Africa
City 42: Istanbul, Turkey
City 43: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
City 44: Brisbane, Australia
City 45: Bucharest, Romania
City 46: Cologne, Germany
City 47: Pune, India
City 48: Monterrey, Mexico
City 49: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
City 50: Lima, Peru

Other:
Ineu Pass: East Romainian Mountains
Nova Proskpekt: East of Sevastopol, Ukraine.


General Knowledge

Freeman: No information known by the public.
Black Mesa: Authorized people.
White Forest: Authorized people.
Canonical Characters (Alyx, Eli, etc): Authorized people.
UU Locations (Nova Prospekt, etc): Only high up UU personnel.


Administrators, feel free to add to this list. If you want to correct something though, it should be discussed in the admin only section.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: GamingZealot on July 25, 2012, 08:38:21 AM
Sorry but I'd been told ever since I started playing on the server our 7 hour war was during 2015 not 2014. Either I was lied to and I need to change my applications or it was changed recently.
Title: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Statua on July 25, 2012, 01:08:36 PM
I heard that too but theres a big problem with that. HL2RP on cg started early 2011 which would be early 2015 however waffle said there was a year between the war and the date hl2rp opened. Which either means its 2017 or the war happened in 2014....


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-ADD-

Alright after some digging, I found out that the war date WAS in fact 2015, however the year today is 2017. If you look at this diary entry I made May of last year, you'll see what I mean. http://www.catalyst-gaming.net/index.php?topic=1674.msg11699#msg11699
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Scratchie on July 26, 2012, 02:18:23 AM
As soon as the next update (which fixes a few things and adds a few new features) the time in game will be 100% fixed and will reflect the proper time, date, day that the game is set in.

General reference to in game time: The current time and date of the GMT +5 years
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Vandal??¢ on August 27, 2012, 10:27:50 PM
I read from another topic (Not sure where, lost to me) that C-45 was located in Vienna, Austria.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Statua on August 28, 2012, 12:07:34 AM
Ok well this one is the official one so go by this thread. C45 would be located in either Romania or Ukraine.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Orange - Cisco Certified on August 28, 2012, 05:27:10 PM
I think it's funny how many Americans live in the Ukraine and how there's a weird lack of Ukraine people in Ukraine
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Tyrone McNigga on December 12, 2012, 10:15:40 PM
Like how City18 is located somewhere in Eastern Europe but 3/4 of the people there are British (Xq28, which has horrible Metrocops). The best we can assume is that there are a lot of Americans who relocated to 45 for some reason.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Sexy Frog on December 12, 2012, 10:45:44 PM
Like how City18 is located somewhere in Eastern Europe but 3/4 of the people there are British (Xq28, which has horrible Metrocops). The best we can assume is that there are a lot of Americans who relocated to 45 for some reason.

And I like that necro-post.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: tics on December 12, 2012, 11:05:01 PM
Like how City18 is located somewhere in Eastern Europe but 3/4 of the people there are British (Xq28, which has horrible Metrocops). The best we can assume is that there are a lot of Americans who relocated to 45 for some reason.

And I like that necro-post.
Posting on stickied guides/topics really can't be considered necroposting.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Lone Wanderer on December 12, 2012, 11:41:30 PM
I think the whole reasoning by relocating races of people to different locations (English->Eastern Europe for an example), is so the people aren't too familiar with the region they are in. Also, the infrastructure being of a different language means that English speakers can't read it as easily, therefore making navigation/organization more difficult. Overall, I'd say the whole reasoning behind it is that it makes an organized resistance more difficult due to the unfamiliarity with the region.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Mr. Pettit on December 13, 2012, 01:11:57 AM
And then there's also the fact that there is a certain amount of areas the Combine made into "Cities". Larger cities were probably leveled in the war or harder to maintain and establish into a Union designated city, and rural areas are obviously not the best place to establish a new one. So they probably had to fill up a handful of cities in an area with a lot more people than they can fit, so they relocate others to places that are less populated, closer, etc.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: raged on December 14, 2012, 03:28:11 AM
why is english the primary language spoken if we're in romania
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: The Doctor, RIP Juggernaut on December 14, 2012, 08:42:33 AM
why is english the primary language spoken if we're in romania
Most likely because everyone here is English speaking?

Truth be told the combine would have most likely standardize too a single language too make communicating easier(From what I understand English the second top most spoken language and is a lot easier to learn the Chinese)
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: rBST Cow on December 14, 2012, 07:01:54 PM
why is english the primary language spoken if we're in romania
Most likely because everyone here is English speaking?

Truth be told the combine would have most likely standardize too a single language too make communicating easier(From what I understand English the second top most spoken language and is a lot easier to learn the Chinese)

This. And what Lone said. Chinese speaking people could be in America or something.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Reimer on December 18, 2012, 10:07:16 AM
why is english the primary language spoken if we're in romania
Most likely because everyone here is English speaking?

Truth be told the combine would have most likely standardize too a single language too make communicating easier(From what I understand English the second top most spoken language and is a lot easier to learn the Chinese)

This. And what Lone said. Chinese speaking people could be in America or something.


Yeah, even if English is in second place, it would be easier to have all the Europeans, South Americans, and others learn a different language with their own lettering than the hurpty durpty Chinese letters.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Anzu on December 18, 2012, 10:37:47 AM
English isnt eaiser for asians just because they use symbolish letters instead. English is probably as hard for them to learn that it is for you to learn chinese, and to be honest, i didnt find korean that very hard. Makes a lot of sense.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: kmp on December 22, 2012, 06:46:33 AM
updated yay
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: YankeeSamurai on December 22, 2012, 07:22:32 AM
City 11 is in Tibet? The map looks European, though.

So does City 23, yet Statua says it's in Mumbai, India...?
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Reimer on December 22, 2012, 07:25:21 AM
You can only make a place look so eastern with HL2 mapping props, which all come from C17.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: YankeeSamurai on December 22, 2012, 08:10:39 AM
Yeah, well were those maps even intended to be eastern? I heard somewhere that C23 what meant to represent Amsterdam or some shit.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Dallas on December 22, 2012, 08:25:48 AM
Hmm... So this looks like City 38 map will be in Ukraine. So by extension we'll be a metaphorical stones-throw away from Nova Prospekt?

On second thoughts, after looking them up on google earth, it appear to be pretty much the same distance as C45.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: The Doctor, RIP Juggernaut on December 22, 2012, 10:36:09 AM
Phoenix is on the list but not Houston?(4th largest city in the US).
Not to mention, most the city's should be eastern European for the larger housing units and further away from "Ground zero"(Where the portal storm would have been, Over black mesa) Assuming they spread out to all the near by cities and the destruction caused the surrender, Houston and Phoenix would have been almost totally wiped out.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Statua on December 22, 2012, 11:32:03 AM
KMP made those changes, not me.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Khub on December 22, 2012, 03:31:42 PM
KMP made those changes, not me.
You had a good chance to make change to the edits made into this thread. Don't blame KillmePlz for making a change, you had a chance to notice yet you didn't.
We'll discuss the points you have brought up in this thread and make further edits if we deem it necessary.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: kmp on December 22, 2012, 03:38:51 PM
Changes can always be made.

Phoenix is on the list but not Houston?(4th largest city in the US).
Not to mention, most the city's should be eastern European for the larger housing units and further away from "Ground zero"(Where the portal storm would have been, Over black mesa) Assuming they spread out to all the near by cities and the destruction caused the surrender, Houston and Phoenix would have been almost totally wiped out.

Portal storms occurred across the entire globe with equal chances to appear in the U.S.A, England, China, etc. Black Mesa was destroyed by a nuke, not portal storms. Plus Black Mesa is somewhere in southern New Mexico, where Phoenix is out of any nuclear blast zone. The overwhelming force of the UU invading was what caused a surrender, before they even came the storms were happening for years and everyone took housing inside the cities, assuming most of which were destroyed or abandoned after the invasion.

It would also be kinda stupid if most of the cities where in 1 continent and in that continent they only inhabited one section of land.

Quote from: YankeeSamurai
City 11 is in Tibet? The map looks European, though.

So does City 23, yet Statua says it's in Mumbai, India...?

Can't put every map made on this list correctly. I've never even played City 23. Where would you say City 11 is?
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Reimer on December 22, 2012, 04:03:28 PM
Changes can always be made.

Phoenix is on the list but not Houston?(4th largest city in the US).
Not to mention, most the city's should be eastern European for the larger housing units and further away from "Ground zero"(Where the portal storm would have been, Over black mesa) Assuming they spread out to all the near by cities and the destruction caused the surrender, Houston and Phoenix would have been almost totally wiped out.

Portal storms occurred across the entire globe with equal chances to appear in the U.S.A, England, China, etc. Black Mesa was destroyed by a nuke, not portal storms. Plus Black Mesa is somewhere in southern New Mexico, where Phoenix is out of any nuclear blast zone. The overwhelming force of the UU invading was what caused a surrender, before they even came the storms were happening for years and everyone took housing inside the cities, assuming most of which were destroyed or abandoned after the invasion.

It would also be kinda stupid if most of the cities where in 1 continent and in that continent they only inhabited one section of land.

Quote from: YankeeSamurai
City 11 is in Tibet? The map looks European, though.

So does City 23, yet Statua says it's in Mumbai, India...?

Can't put every map made on this list correctly. I've never even played City 23. Where would you say City 11 is?

I heard it said from a number of people that C11 was in Bath, England.

(This was back when we were still playing on it, and I must say, it has one of the coolest nexus's that I have seen, but canon might'v changed for it.)
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Statua on December 22, 2012, 04:29:18 PM
KMP made those changes, not me.
You had a good chance to make change to the edits made into this thread. Don't blame KillmePlz for making a change, you had a chance to notice yet you didn't.
We'll discuss the points you have brought up in this thread and make further edits if we deem it necessary.
Uhh dude? I never said I disagreed with this... I just said if people are going to complain, dont complain to me. I just noted KMP was the last to edit the thread.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: The Doctor, RIP Juggernaut on December 22, 2012, 04:30:16 PM
Changes can always be made.

Phoenix is on the list but not Houston?(4th largest city in the US).
Not to mention, most the city's should be eastern European for the larger housing units and further away from "Ground zero"(Where the portal storm would have been, Over black mesa) Assuming they spread out to all the near by cities and the destruction caused the surrender, Houston and Phoenix would have been almost totally wiped out.

Portal storms occurred across the entire globe with equal chances to appear in the U.S.A, England, China, etc. Black Mesa was destroyed by a nuke, not portal storms. Plus Black Mesa is somewhere in southern New Mexico, where Phoenix is out of any nuclear blast zone. The overwhelming force of the UU invading was what caused a surrender, before they even came the storms were happening for years and everyone took housing inside the cities, assuming most of which were destroyed or abandoned after the invasion.

It would also be kinda stupid if most of the cities where in 1 continent and in that continent they only inhabited one section of land.

Quote from: YankeeSamurai
City 11 is in Tibet? The map looks European, though.

So does City 23, yet Statua says it's in Mumbai, India...?

Can't put every map made on this list correctly. I've never even played City 23. Where would you say City 11 is?
The nuke blowing up black mesa set off the lamba core(Which on top of the cascade that caused HL1) which in turned, cracked our universe and sent portal energy in to the atmosphere and that caused the portal storms/allowed the combine to access our universe.
Logically following those chain of events, the epicenter(Or ground zero) would be black mesa its self, the combine invading would have destroyed an already crippled US military with shear strength in numbers. The rest of the nations seeing this and the incoming forces would have agreed to the deal that Breen struck with them(When, I don't fucking know) this causing the end of the Seven hour war.
It was already confirmed by Eli in EP2 that the combine forces came through a super portal like the one in the game, they also created it using the same basic methods(The cracks most likely would have healed/the combine would have fixed them over their 20 year occupation of earth) so again, the logical ground zero would have been black mesa, meaning the major cities(Where you've already stated that they would have ran too) nearest to it would have suffered the most damage from said invasion.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: BltElite on December 23, 2012, 07:13:57 AM
Phoenix is on the list but not Houston?(4th largest city in the US).
Not to mention, most the city's should be eastern European for the larger housing units and further away from "Ground zero"(Where the portal storm would have been, Over black mesa) Assuming they spread out to all the near by cities and the destruction caused the surrender, Houston and Phoenix would have been almost totally wiped out.

The cities were not based off population and size of cities.

They were done through location and at points of choosing ones that were in suitable places.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Hazard Time on December 23, 2012, 07:56:32 PM
Also, you have to take into account the fact that killing about 6 billion people in only 7 hours requires some pretty destructive weapons.  I would think that most major cities around the globe would have been leveled or at least rendered largely uninhabitable.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: The Doctor, RIP Juggernaut on December 23, 2012, 09:17:42 PM
Also, you have to take into account the fact that killing about 6 billion people in only 7 hours requires some pretty destructive weapons.  I would think that most major cities around the globe would have been leveled or at least rendered largely uninhabitable.
Still trying to figure out where people came up with this number.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: [ACS Cpl.] Midnightspy007 on March 04, 2013, 06:37:32 AM
Yeah...... The 7 hour war was in 2015 unless they changed it which I doubt they did.
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Teitoku Ippan on March 04, 2013, 08:32:13 AM
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City 11: Lhasa, Tibet

yeah no, im fairly certain city 11 was another eastern europe city when we were on it at one point

sorry but i wouldnt call this thread 'official', for the cities they should just be given a location as we go along like we've had people say certain cities are in certain locations in logs/storys/etc and then this thread
Title: Re: Official In-Character Information
Post by: Statua on March 04, 2013, 10:23:26 AM
The dates are correct. The cities im not so sure. I cant remember who did them but i think they just slapped names beside numbers cause like you know, city 7 is toronto, the only canadian city.
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