Synergy-1<p>Don’t you love when you’re <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Worldbuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Worldbuilding</span></a> and you suddenly have an idea that’d greatly simplify something you were struggling with, but applying it would require major retcons and scrapping major established details? 🙃</p><p>That just happened with me as I’m still drafting an article on my project wiki about the Skillset system to categorize characters by their skills but got stuck; I already wrote about it on the blog with the launch of version 3 and a bit before that, but it was clunky so I’ve been writing a refined draft. </p><p>I’m still not entirely decided how OSes would fit into this system, but I just had the idea pop up in my mind that being an “Operating Superstar” could just be a title for many of the characters. </p><p>That’d be so much simpler than what I have in mind with them being a skillset based on programming and versatility (and one that wasn’t present from the beginning of the setting’s history) that has an unusual and complicated initiation process. </p><p>I have how to write about that somewhat figured out, and I like the angle that developed of OSes as a group trying to find its place within society, but I keep going for the complicated ideas because simpler ones don’t always immediately cross my mind. </p><p>However, if I went with this simpler angle, I’d have to retcon out everything about the initiation process that I already covered when I recently updated the “I Was a Software Developer…” chapters with the worldbuilding changes of version 3 😔</p>