FOR THE MOTHERSHIP! Let's talk Bandle City before Narrative retcons everything.

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I wrote another thread on this a while back. I thought I'd set up another.

Some people complain that Narrative "isn't doing anything." In a way, I hope they're right. My impression, though, is that right now Narrative is furiously working in secret on the next wave of retcons. I have a strong suspicion that Bandle City is one of their next targets.

Narrative has essentially said that, while they might come by and talk about their new material after it's released and locked in, they're not interested in following the Riot model of community engagement—discussing possible changes with the community early enough in the design process for community feedback to make a difference. The most we've wrangled out of them are some noncommittal remarks that they might sometimes read the boards and maybe sort of think about what we say.

The Bandle City rewrite might already be finished. They might have already spent money on fancy visuals and animations. It might be too late for anything we say here to matter. On the flip side, it might be that nobody's even working on Bandle City right now, and whatever we say here will go unnoticed because there's no development process into which it could be incorporated. But maybe, just maybe, we're in that Goldilocks zone, where people have started planning their retcons to Bandle City but are still in an early drafting stage.

So, assuming that's the case—what are people expecting Narrative to do? What are they dreading that Narrative will do? If you had five minutes with Narrative to talk about Bandle City, what would you ask them to keep? What are the most important parts of Bandle City's community lore that you'd like whatever rewrite they do to remain backwards-compatible with?