FloatingFatMan

He DID say "out of scale god-mode characters".

It's pretty common to have plots lay dormant for ages, due to other players being busy with RL, their own plots or just plain not interested. Hell, I've had loads for Ellie that I've just dropped due to that sort of thing.


I'd contend that you also need an appropriate toon for Pocket D roleplay as well. And you have to not mind enourmous amounts of "WTF!?" too.


With the Rikti, that's mainly due to them being near constant when its raid season. We have stuff we'd like to do, and having it interrupted for a game mechanic when the devs don't seem interested in progressing the story is damned irritating.

If some gameworld progression was going on with it, I doubt we'd mind. As it is, the Rikti, like the Coming Storm and Rularuu, are a stagnant plot point.

As for "global plots", all some of us ask is that it be made possible to not get involved, if we the players don't want to be. If something big happens in front of us, we're effectively bound to respond ICly, and well, you know, it could quite easily be interrupting something we're already doing!

Hell, when Ellie broke out the other week, I quite intentionally did it to one side of GG so that people not interested, could ignore it; but those that would be, could see something going on.


Sure it can happen, and used to more often than now. But then you have the problem of either having to wait for one person to post something, which could be hours; or ignoring their input and carry on without them. I've just never found them anywhere near as much fun.

Now, on the other hand, sometimes we do episodic fiction, such as the Zero Hour thread when the Rikti first returned, or the Requiem War stuff. Things like that are totally AWESOME!

I have to wonder who told you that you couldn't do that... Fairly sure I didn't! It's not for me to say who can and can't do what! If she'd been annoying, I'd have put her on ignore like I have certain other characters; but she never even got close to my ignore list. As I have a VERY low annoyance threshold, I don't think she was annoying.


The argument was bascially down to certain people telling others how to play their characters, or that they HAD to be a certain thing whether they liked it or not. Things like that are just not on and WILL cause strife, guaranteed.

Which is why I think at least one of those posters was deliberately trolling, because he knows how to push people's buttons.

Of course, I can only speak of the official forums. Random forum RP for anyone to drop it isn't gonna happen on SG's own forums, is it?

Lobotomising the "villain" within the first few minutes of the plot would tend to do that.

Thing is, though.. Forum RP never really massively caught on in the EU side. We tend to prefer our RP live and raw, where we can react in real time to things as they happen, and not have to wait 8 hours for the other person to wake up or get home from work.

When the forums were first merged, one of us tried that. It was an unmitigated disaster as the styles of RP just.... didn't mesh... At all.

Should we have persisted? Maybe... But it just seemed like forcing things. Who knows though, maybe someone will try it again, or maybe, when they eventually merge the servers (I consider that inevitable), things will gel better.

Shadowe is being wise again. I'm often considered one of those personalities. I'm loud, opinionated, and don't tolerate those I consider to be fools even slightly. I've gotten far too old and crusty to put up with that kind of shizzle. People like Z usually do a good job of cooling me off a bit, but there are some people I really should learn to just put on ignore.

I don't think calling it "clique" is fair. That word tends to have many negative connotations, and we really DON'T try to be negative at GG unless someone is being a jerk.

It IS, however, difficult to get in to. As I mentioned to Gangrel, it's a social setting with long established groups of friends. New people are welcome, and we get them often; but you do need to treat it like a proper social setting and wait for some part of the conversation you can involve yourself in.

Walking up, and just standing there listening, never speaking and waiting for someone to notice you, rarely works.
Walking up, announcing yourself loudly, and interrupting peoples conversations (as often happens) is just going to get your character labelled as a jerk.
However, walking up, listening for a little while, then introducing yourself during a pause in the chat, or maybe interjecting with a comment on the topic, usually goes down pretty well.

Hey, just remember dude. You owe one of the main groups about a gallon of coffee!

It's an unfortunate side effect of the social setting at GG. There, it's heroes in their off-time, when they've had a hard day usually kicking villain buttski, and they just want to kick back and unwind a bit with their friends.

Think of it like a pub, but without the booze. Getting in to established groups of people out of the blue is always hard in RL too. You need to listen for a bit, look for a hook, and then chime in; just as you would in a RL social situation.

Oh, you have NO idea...

CB, a simple fact. People will play their characters, and interpret their power levels HOWEVER THE HELL THEY WANT.

What you think they should or even "must" do, is completely and utterly irrelevant. No one cares if you think they're doing it wrong. No one cares how you play it. All we care about is having fun with a game that WE pay to play.

And now, back to what the thread is about. How will people be interpreting Incarnate for their characters?

Ellie isn't going incarnate as per the game mechanic. Instead, she's evolving into something more than she was.

Cara already has the potential for being an "omega" class mutant (as she's modelled loosely on Iceman and has his abilities in potentia), so she'll just develop.

Eloise won't bother as she's not level 50. Nor will Novastar, as I don't play him,

See? Now you're just deliberately trolling to cause an argument.

That, or you really ARE completely incapable of understanding a simple thing as IC and game mechanic differences.

You're confusing game mechanics and story with roleplayer ICness. That's probably why you're having such a problem understanding what people are on about here.

Player IC has NOTHING to do game lore unless the player WANTS it to be. Otherwise, pretty much no one's characters would be possible, including your own.

If that's what she claims her character is, that is for HER to decide, nobody else.

It's accurate to YOU, not to anyone else that doesn't share your viewpoint.

The security/threat system has NOTHING to do with RP. It's purely a game mechanic and has little to no bearing on RP if you don't want it to. Once again, you're trying to tell people how to play their characters. If we're getting in to THAT, then I'll tell you go kill off Tomb permanently.

Actually... He kinda gets up my nose.

Ooooh! A mainlander! *shoots*

Wait... What? No... Arguments?

*scratches head*

Hang on.... Let me think about this for a second.

No.

Arguments.



Hmmmm.....


Nope... Sorry, that just doesn't make any sense at all, y'know? We're Europeans, dude. We've been arguing for centuries longer than you colonials have even had a country!

Asking us to not argue is like... I dunno... Asking an American to give up his gun! Does not compute!

Something that immediately springs to mind is the computer interface portrayed in the movie Minority Report. Looked loads of fun, but hugely impractical due to the severe muscle fatigue you'd get after a while.

Therein lies the inherent problem with such motion based control interfaces. The Wii, Sony Move, Kinetic, even the old Eye Toy... They all have the same problem; large movements to control a computer just are not good for more than a short period of time!

Still, it's a fascinating subject and I'm really impressed with what you've shown here. Can't wait till you release something!

I think that's reasonably unlikely. My way with Ellie, for example, cannot possibly impugn on anyone else's character at all.

This is what I've been saying all along. The ONLY person who gets a say in how they interpret what Incarnate means for their characters, is the player. No one else's opinion matters one tiniest little bit.

You mean Paladin? One hit, no.. But Paladin is a really weak GM and easy to solo.

As I remember it, the lore has it that the box has been opened many times before, and each time results in a surge in superpowers for a few generations before it dies back, but that there are ALWAYS a few exceptions. Beings with powers beyond those of normal men, so that handily explains Nemesis.

Though TBH, I think he's another Incarnate.

I don't see anyone claiming they're better than the NPC'd incarnates. I don't even see anyone claiming they're better than AV's. You're imagining stuff again.