Techbot Alpha

Ahhh. Alpha is having a dense moment XD Hmn, that's not so bad, then. Not sure if I want to take fly or super jump, the problem being that fly makes burn a problem. Although I wouldnt be using fly in missions, so a slightly moot point...

Right, thanks for pointing out my Derp there guys XD *toddles back to Mids*

Or, rather, the lack of.

I didn't notice before, but does Plasma Shield really give only Sleep and Hold protection? What about Stun? I know the set has a KB hole, but at least thats pluggable with IOs. Immobilise is a pain when you want to take fly and the only other option is Burn, but....seriously? No Stun protection?

I really want to give Firey Aura a try...but I also cannot be damned with a Scrapper that can't do it's job without getting mezzed halfway to hell and back. I mean, what the point? I love the look of the rest of the set, and Fire/Fire looks fantastic...but the gaping mez holes really turn me off it.

Yeah. I liked the writing I did for Leon and the DeFeurards, but as far as im concerned, this is retcon territory. You can ache on as much as you like. I will continue with the rest of Open Season, because for the vast majority it's been fine, fun and interesting. But I'm skipping on this part.

Major problem;
People in-game who don't read the forums. Its...such a huge detach that on something this scale, there is no good way to handle it. It'll just lead to IC confusion and mess-up, OOC annoyance from both 'sides' and...it really doesn't seem worth it to me. *shrug*

Designing an NPC?
/e rollneck
/e knuckles

In the words of The 'Cole Train';
"Bring it!"

This is all getting really damn petty and silly now.

The be all and end all of the matter is; the event is simply implausible in the setting its in. There would be large repreccusions. As there is no reasonable way to portray this in-game and barely so even on the forums, I would seriously reccomend that the event gets retconned. Either that, or we'll be circling in this same arguement for ages. Or the majority of people will simply ignore it, and carry on with the more fun part of Open Season, which was easily explained and played.

I know it's coming back to the St Johns event again, but I would frankly make this reccomendation;

Retcon it. Yes, its clunky and horrible and ugly. But it's either that or major, unavoidable fallout for the Court. Is everyone who plays in it ok with that? The people who play with them? Because there is no realistic way this can be side-stepped.
Heck, it'd give Alpha the excuse to fire Reason at Castle Bathory. Because he could. Very easily.

Before people ask about that, he avoids using the railcannon on, say, a daily or even weekly basis for a number of reasons. OOC, its because I cannot be bothered to truck back to Warburg and stock up on the nukes I use as the In-Game power. IC, theres a long list.
1) Every round fired, and the energy needed to fire it, is incredibly expensive. That Alpha can get away with it at all is due to the fact that, hey, he's a criminal and a tech genius. He can leech money with comparitive ease.
2) Keeping cards close to the chest. For now, theres little more than dark rumour that annoying the Techbot can get you in a big heap of trouble. The sparse usage keeps people edgy and worried, their imagination doing more work than a high-cal shell could ever do.
3) Secrecy. Reason is a big investment and one of Alphas top pet projects. He keeps her running quiet and cloaked on the dark-side of the moon, in geo-stationary orbit. He does not want it advertised that she's there, or someone would go up and either try and commandeer it for irressonsible(er) use, or to destroy it. Both of which would require him hunting them down and killing them.

/tangent

Give it a zone plot, field base (hospital, trainer, store, diff contact) and contacts?
/Signed. Very much so. No need to change the zone art, its perfect the way it is. Just give us something to DO there for pete sakes.

I think if enough warning and planning is done, then slightly larger plots can be possible. Before I tried to kick off Operation Escalation, I did make sure to ask around...practically every day, really, for a good couple of weeks. And that was nearly a month or more before the thing even kicked off.
Well, in fact, if you count the attempt I was going to do until I14 kicked off and everyone got distracted, the thing was in the pipes for over a year.

My own time getting limited and RL stuff occuring, along with....communciations breakdown, lets call it, lead to it being more a caffuffle than it should have been. That, and RPvP only works when you have even numbers. The Heroes, facing a mass of VEATs, were understandably a little miffed by the end of it, so it wa probably best to call it a day when it did.

I think the line is, and always will be; Have consideration for other peoples chars and the implications of the plot, and a clear goal of what you want to happen so you can keep things on track, while trying not to railroad too much.