"No Brothels to be in DA4" as per Mark Darrah Tweet.

Make it an S&M dungeon, I guess? Chips, dips, chains and whips with Kelly LeBrock MC'ing?

In all seriousness, I agree. If it doesn't add to the story or push the narrative why have it?

This is a public forum for everybody to read, and so I make my posts understandable for people who may not have that knowledge. It’s something I won’t be changing, sorry to say.

It has never been my argument that there is complete chaos, I’m saying that the more chaos you introduce (needlessly) to a city, the less culture (unique to the history of that place and the traditions of those people) will be displayed. And that this sliding scale will continue until there’s complete chaos which will resemble almost every other place that is in complete chaos. Thus more chaos = less Tevinter culture. "Instability" is a vague and quite useless descriptor, TBH.

It doesn’t matter whether the riots are confined to one portion of the city, the entire city will be affected because of this. Classes do not restrict fallout of actions to one section of the city because a city is reliant on ALL classes to run.

With regards to narrative needs, the impending threat of an invasion doesn’t disrupt the daily lives of the people there too much, and that the Imperium is unstable ultimately means little. Neither of these are compelling narrative reasons to have riots in the city upon arrival, it is optional and if pursued by Bioware a rather BAD option, narrative wise.

The nobles not noticing the slaughter of the elven servants is called convenient storytelling. If it wasn’t in a game it would be called bad writing. Nobles are entirely reliant on servants, pack their bags, make their food, wipe their arse, be human shields, do pretty much everything for them. So yeah, the slaughter of their servants (their PROPERTY) would be noticed, not because they care for those servants but because they are their property and essential to the estate. To say that nobles don't care about peasants so they won't notice an entire wing of servants being slaughtered is just so convenient for a story ...

I wouldn’t imagine Tevinter would stomach rousing revolutionary songs in the street. Secret meetings could happen but that doesn’t affect the limiting of certain parts of the city or disruptions of normal services, which was the original point you were making I believe.

At the end of the day culture is the way people behave and interact, and during times of peace the way people interact and behave are limited and moulded by the constraints specific societies and cities place on them. These differ from place to place which is where you get the differences in culture from. Secret meetings and pamphlets are still fairly peaceful activities and doesn't disrupt the every day life, limits, and constraints people will need to experience so it doesn't really lessen the Tevinter culture that much. However as that peace breaks down those limits are broken down and people’s behaviours become more and more the same. If you want to know about the culture specific to Tevinter, then yes you need to visit during times of relative peace.

You tell me since you're the one raving about "PC" just because gay and trans people aren't being hidden away.

By "takes over" I meant it engulfs the whole city, I didn't mean that the city would lose A siege would be such a horrible way to arrive in the city. Generally speaking sieges are the same and the way people respond is similar, and the city would be a poor reflection of Tevinter culture Cities by their very nature consume more resources than they produce. You will have food shortages and rationing, beer shortages (you’d better hope your water supply is up to scratch and pollution free … which London’s famously wasn’t back in the day.) Where will the food go? How is it rationed? The powerful would consume most, but now there's a shortage for the poor, how would that work out?

Common siege tactic -> fire flaming things over the top of the walls. Now all wooden structures are burning down and people can't escape the city.

Common siege tactic -> throw rotting corpses and carcasses over the walls. Uh oh, disease and pestilence running rampant, however will they cope?

Guards and police and pretty much everyone that can fight are needed on the walls, how does that affect law and order in the town?

Trading disrupted, what now? Generally speaking everyone just concentrates on survival, customs get thrown out the window, the way a city operates get thrown out the window ...

It is true that Origins didn't start in a city, so maybe. I just hope we don't start the game in the wilderness That's usually boring

My original argument is that the lack of a brothel could very well lessen the Tevinter culture conveyed in whatever city we're going to experience, but that also has to do with how they depict the sex trade over there. I disagree with you that the narrative concerns mean that disruptions and upheaval should be already happening in grandish and public ways when we enter the city. Yes the city is decaying, that should only expand the sex trade not confine it btw, but the way the city operates is still upheld. Grand shows of unrest could place the city under equivalences of martial law and conflicts start to arise and that's when culture really starts to go out the window. I would like to know how Tevinter operates before things start to boil over, and I don't think that's an unreasonable thought. 

This is what people refer to as projection.

You really are blind, aren't you? Hey, if it's the only may you can lend credibility to your argument, go for it. Just know that the rest of us see through it and regonize the true idiocy.

Thank you for proving my point.

Why would I? I'm not the one claiming that the existence of gay and trans people is evidence of some nefarious "agenda".

What did I misrepresent? In your inane list of "proof" that the game's are becoming more "PC", you listed "ugly women" and the existence of gay and trans people.

So, acknowledging the existence of gay and trans people is extreme? Designing female characters who aren't pornstars is extreme?

In TW2 they did railroad you into a relationship with Triss even though you chose Shani.