Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26372030-20151206001252/@comment-25467429-20151210062216

It might be just me, but it feels like a lot of people are taking the circumstance of AC3's events in-story being a simulation and saying you can just toss it out the window, but that ignores the purpose of a simulation. If most, if not all, of the component factors do not exist in the real world as they do in the sim, then the sim is almost entirely poinntless in terms of providing useful information. That's why I suggested that even if not fully functional at the time, it seems very odd that a keystone tech like a space elevator would be left out of the story, and to alleviate that pressure, placing the timeline of the story after 3 would be the best course.

I suppose there is the possibility that through some means a space elevator would be less practical than a rocket launch or a mass-driver, but that would in turn raise doubts on the very concept of a space elevator, let alone what appears to be the large expenditures on protecting it, or the willingness to attack it.

Ending of 7... I'd say the bittersweet is the best/most likely of the three. The idea of ripping off what would surely be seen as the "Star Wars" twist probably wouldn't do AC any favors. and while a cliffhanger might work, I really don't think fans would tolerate that twice in a row, especially when from all prior accounts the fact that 7 even exists was a ffight and struggle, so the hope of an 8 is probably too much for them to bake into the cake of 7.