Milkyway64 Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Welcome one and all to the discussion/info thread! Here I will clarify a few guidelines as well as list every player and link back to their character sheet. The cast: Milkyway64 as General Milky - http://starfox-onlin...826#entry303826 ajc3000fox as James - http://starfox-onlin...acked-charcter/ Fluxy as Nick - http://starfox-onlin...post__p__303538 Redeemer as Red - http://starfox-onlin...post__p__303433 Shadow Matrix as Daniel - http://starfox-onlin...9-daniel-storm/ Icantlose74 as The Other James - http://starfox-onlin...for-milkys-rpg/ Xort as Xort - http://starfox-onlin...post__p__301370 The list shall grow as more people show. A bit of discussion now, mainly on some things I should have went over sooner. For those not aware, powerful characters are discouraged. It's fun to blow all your problems away with a hyper beam, but we're not going for that here. A little restraint will go a long way. Just know that your character isn't about to be a one man hero or superweapon or anything. Second, I will personally be laid back for most of this. I'll influence the story some, but mostly this is your guy's thing. Thus, it's only fitting we're on the same page on a few NPCs. You are allowed to take control of the goons. However, not to any significant degree when a certain other character is present, which will be clear soon. Whenever it's kosher for you to use them, follow these guidelines: 1. Not all of them are organic, and they are all rather smart. Not running around with Tweedle A and Tweedle B here. 2. You may only take your liberties when it directly affects your character in someway. That is to say, you're not allowed to decided what they do at base or on the other side of the city. 3. My intervention is god. If something happens by my writing, it happens. I may amend this as needed. I'll close with a reminder to read this: Quote Okay. I promised this was coming, and then procrastinated and was chastised. Well, I regret none of that at ALL, since I have just drastically improved this. I wanna know what you think. First, some backstory. So there I was, browsing http://am2r.freeforums.org/ and appreciated my custom Fire Emblem avatar I have there. So I began a train of thought, starting with Fire Emblem being an RPG I need to give more love. RPG - G = RP, of which reminded me I was procrastinating on a different forum. That reminded me of this thread, and with the character portait of General Milky fresh in mind, it made me wonder how the characters in this RP could scratch him if he wore armor, like in an FE game. Then it hit me. This needs a number system. But, but, I also want this to be a story RP and not a poor man's tabletop game, so I brainstormed ways to have both. I think I've got it. So then, the point of this thread is for you all to unite and take Milky down? Why not promote bonding? And therein lies the system. Every character will have a static pair of stats, attack and defense, and so will Milky. So do you go out and fight monsters and such? Hell no, this ain't D&D, I ain't gonna reward you for punting squirrels. Instead, you all will have an invisible "achievement" system. These will be feats and mile stones on a list only I will have. Each achievement will modify your character's stats, which will serve as your growth. To avoid players grinding them, I will alert people their achievements over PM, and ask that you don't speak of them until the finale, which will be the only time this number system becomes relevent. I repeat, this stat system will only matter any amount of beans in the final march. So how is this going to work? Basically, this will be an ordinary roleplay for the most part. However, any character, solo or party, can at anytime decide to go face the evil General. If things are unfavorable, your character will almost surely die. To suit the focus on bonding, I'll tell you the formula I have in mind, using an example I already pitched to a friend. Mark and John are hiding from a resistence sweep. The building they are in is surrounded by Milky's commandos and armed sentry bots. Should mark and John survive, they will walk away stronger, more resilient people and thus will be awarded the achievement which grants a +1 bonus to defense. But there's more, should John and Mark be in the same squad infiltrating Milky's lair, their sharing of that achievement will multiply the bonus to 2. Their bond, from surviving and experiencing hell together, strengthens their resolve to survive. Now, say if a Mary was also in the same sweep Mark and John were earlier, and also was in this squad. All three of their +1 def achievement grants them a much better +4. The idea behind this is that experiences make people strong, but a single person can only be so much. There needs to be a bond, an emphasis on these people operating and fighting off of eachother's strength rather than their own, and the resolve to keep eachother safe makes them stronger than raw physical ability experience alone. This is why any squad attempting to fell Milky may share their collection of achievements, to apply bonuses to achievements they share. Milky's stats will be hidden to avoid breaking the immersion and turning it into a "grind until we are ready" approach. I want players to come in as a group uncertain of the outcome and connect them much like the characters themselves are. So how will the stats themselves be used? They will be used to determine an RNG. I'm not exactly sure how I'll be doing this yet, but it'll run off percentage compared to Milky's stats. For this example's sake, say Milky has 100 defense. Any character with an atk stat of below 50% of that (say he or she has 47 attack) it'll always fail. Milky will always be unphased, dodge, or some other godmod action to nulify the attack. The opposite holds true, too. Any character with +50% will always wreck the General. There'll be a balance in between, being a 50/50 chance of success or failure at an even stat and scaling up and down from there. I don't know the exact percents or formulas I'll use yet, but it will be something along those lines. Any questions or objections? Anything to add maybe? For you skim readers or those easily chased off by long walls of text or complicated systems, I'll sum it up. You get secret awards through PM that will help out in the finale, which can be any time players choose with no limits. Keep these to yourself until you're ready to go for it with other players (if applicable), at which point you share with those involved. The RP is finished when someone succeeds. Lastly, read up on some of the threads explaining how to be a decent RPer. At the very least, I expect you guys to try and write well taking everything into account. Be descriptive. The basics, you know. There we go. I'll update this as needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redeemer Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 I think my posts are too big. I get carried when I write. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arashikage Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 That's fine, I enjoyed your long post =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xortberg Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Come on, people. We need contributions. Get to posting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluxy Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 I gladly would get more commonly involved if Shadow Matrix would post more often. Lol, naw, probably got busy. Just so long as he posts soon, I'll be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redeemer Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Come on, people. We need contributions. Get to posting! Yeah guys, I'm coming to get you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Matrix Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 I gladly would get more commonly involved if Shadow Matrix would post more often. Lol, naw, probably got busy. Just so long as he posts soon, I'll be fine. LOL I do post. Problem is I can't do it right away. I'm not always on the site you know? I'm not on it 24/7 Hitting the "F5" button refreshing the roleplay list to see if a new post comes out and I have to reply to it. I'm sorry but I'm not that type of guy. I'm dedicated to the story Milky made its fun and I will always post. But your going to have to give it like, half a day or so. Of if I'm online for an hour and your posting, Ill post back and etc. you know what it is lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluxy Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 LOL I do post. Problem is I can't do it right away. I'm not always on the site you know? I'm not on it 24/7 Hitting the "F5" button refreshing the roleplay list to see if a new post comes out and I have to reply to it. I'm sorry but I'm not that type of guy. I'm dedicated to the story Milky made its fun and I will always post. But your going to have to give it like, half a day or so. Of if I'm online for an hour and your posting, Ill post back and etc. you know what it is lol. I'm not attacking you, and even said it was alright, and that was like, last night. I already even said you were probably busy, sooo... Yeah, you saying all those reasons is kiiiinda not needed. I'm not attacking you at all, bro. Calm down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICantLose74 Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 I laughed at how you put "The Other James" Milky that made my day right now. Thanks. As for the status and everything that Milky had mentioned when this first started how I'm probably going to do this is I'll play it by ear, besides I'm more of a follower than a leader in RPGs anyway, tell my guy to do something and most likely he'll do it lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkyway64 Posted June 24, 2011 Author Share Posted June 24, 2011 NO! This is your story! Carve your path through! Make expectations your bitch! ROCK THE GAME WITH YOUR INPUT!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Matrix Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 I'm not attacking you, and even said it was alright, and that was like, last night. I already even said you were probably busy, sooo... Yeah, you saying all those reasons is kiiiinda not needed. I'm not attacking you at all, bro. Calm down. Lol never said you were. I am calm. If you see me post "LOL" What I responded to your post, I laughed at myself. I wasn't offended, I omly said that stuff so you guys wouldn't be like. "Oh maybe he doesn't have time for it. " and etc. You misinterupted the writting i put in my post. I never was like pissed off at you or anything I was just laughing. I am calm bro don't worry. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICantLose74 Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 NO! This is your story! Carve your path through! Make expectations your bitch! ROCK THE GAME WITH YOUR INPUT!!! YES SIR! *salutes* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Matrix Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 Yo Milky, I think the links of the characters of the cast of your fan fiction are messed up. I clicked on everyone of the character links and I can't see them... It maybe my connection I'm not sure. But can you or anyone else check and see if it works please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xortberg Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 Yeah, I pointed out the same thing to him. He's just too lazy to do anything about it right now Shouldn't be too hard for you to find them manually in the meantime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arashikage Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Okay, so I bet at least a few of you read my post, but I'm gonna need some interjection here, I can't keep this up forever, y'know? So I was wondering if one of you guys could help me out here, Preferably a member of the resistance, but I'm not too picky, could be interesting to see what happens if someone else intervenes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Monroe Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Milk, I know this has already started but I may want in as a bit role, or something. I'll chat with you about it on Steam :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thu'um Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 The coalition against milky needs to pick up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redeemer Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Yeah guys, get to it. I can't post again until others have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICantLose74 Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Let me know what I can do to help this problem as I REALLY don't want to see another RPG go down the drain. So just kinda let me know what I need to do and I'll see if I can push others twoards doing it I guess, I mean I know Im more of a follower than a leader but if the RPG is at stake here than I'll do whatever I can to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkyway64 Posted June 30, 2011 Author Share Posted June 30, 2011 It's not going to die, although I have noticed a major problem in that a lot of people who signed up didn't show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Matrix Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Yeah guys, get to it. I can't post again until others have. Same here lol. Guess everyone is too busy or something.. It's not going to die, although I have noticed a major problem in that a lot of people who signed up didn't show. Yeah your right.. I saw like at least 4 pages of people saying they'd come to RP yet I only see the same 6-7 characters plus myself.. We should have like... More then 10 users rping on your RP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arashikage Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Okay sorry about my leave of absence, really I just had a bit going on what with camp counseling and all, but now I'm done with that, and I can start posting again, I just need to figure out what to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluxy Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Okay, so seriously. I'll keep this short and simple; AJC, and ICan'tLose need to stop god modding. Myself and quite a few others are noticing this going on; Including Redeemer herself. Seriously, just play correctly and no cheating. This is still early on in the RP, no one has to die, and if the Resistance is always on the winning side, that just makes for a shitty RP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thu'um Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Okay, so seriously. I'll keep this short and simple; AJC, and ICan'tLose need to stop god modding. Myself and quite a few others are noticing this going on; Including Redeemer herself. Seriously, just play correctly and no cheating. This is still early on in the RP, no one has to die, and if the Resistance is always on the winning side, that just makes for a shitty RP. sorry, i'm not very good at this sorta stuff, i'd liek it very much if you'd guys pointed out what i'm doing wrong. I needs da help bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xortberg Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD Dear God, people. I see walls of unbroken, unformatted text and it makes my tears cry. Please, an RP is a work of writing just as much as a novel. If I can't be arsed to read your post because it makes my optic nerves scream in protest, you're RPing badly. Please, please at least glance over the topic I linked if you haven't already. This is ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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