Agonus

My main rule of etiquette on teams I lead, as long as the team has been formed to satisfaction before getting to the door, is to wait for everyone to load in the mission before starting.

As for pet peeves, if someone catches me after we've already started a mission and wants to join, I try to give them an idea of how far along we are. I appreciate the same thing in turn. For example, if you're in northern Nerva and almost done with your mission when you invite me, warn me about that so that I don't waste time traveling to the mission door and zone in for the mission to be completed 3 seconds later.

Also, within reason, listen to the leader. I remember one time when the mission objective was a glowie, and there were at least 2 mobs well within site of the glowie but solidly out of aggro range. We get the glowie, and another player starts talking about going after the remaining mobs. Leader says exit the mission. The other player started -arguing- with the rest of the TEAM that you always clear a mission. No ifs, ands, or buts. That's how it was done.

Depends on the incentives included therein. Though the early access to load the game before launch -is- always nice.

Best use I've ever seen of a "Gather for X" buff bind was a Defender light RP stripper type character. Her version was something like "You want some of this?" timed with the ***-smacking taunt emote.

I also completely forgot about another method I've seen used. Working under the premise that group commlinks are sophisticated enough to be able to translate most languages on the spot, for a character that constantly spoke in Japanese, the player simply prefaced everything they said (similar to [OOC] style binds) with a variation of "Translated" or "TFJ".

And elaborating on the characters I mentioned, the Peruvian was psychotically insane and somewhat simple minded. He switched back and forth at random between Spanish and English, and did not know complex English words.

For my main, on the other hand, I play it that he is willfully ignorant of learning any more than basic, formal English. He has no desire to do so. Sort of like how, well at least in my day, High School foreign language classes only taught the basics and acknowledged that there were multitudes of dialects that did things differently. Anyone who uses heavy slang or pop cultures references might as well be speaking another language altogether to my main.

On the rare occasions I venture into D, and I still do from time to time, I have a personal rule to try to avoid spitting out life stories to complete strangers as small talk. I do, however, actively look for more morally inclined conversations I can pipe in on, as I love playing devil's advocate.

Wow, I've never even thought of the possibility of an online source for dialects. T'would be all sorts of nifty to have an international one.

That's the main thing that's held me back from playing a Japanese character, doing the speech pattern justice, but I finally broke down and decided to give it a try recently. My main method is having "Speaks with a Japanese accent" in the typing bubble and to toss in words picked up from online translators. The character is also somewhat formal, so English slang and contractions are out too.

I have a character from Peru who speaks in broken English with what little I know of Spanish thrown in, which is all fun until I come across someone who knows more Spanish than me. >.<

My main is supposed to be Egyptian, with Arabic as his native language. A usually calm character, he also speaks very formally, as he only ever bothered to learn basic English, but the more agitated he gets, the worse his English gets. His "accent" has sort of mutated into Ebou Dari more than anything with some verbal tics and Arabic mutterings thrown in.

I've come across people who can pull off native Russian and German characters ridiculously well, and then there are those that go so over the top it borders on parody.

Been wondering for a while with the arrival of so many game features we were initially told were never going to be possible. What's the word on the possibility of ever having AT's that can gain experience and level by crafting? Something like an Inventor Blueside and a Mad Scientist Redside. Make them pure crafting classes or split it up with some low damage ranged powers as the primary or secondary in addition to a primary or secondary geared towards crafting bonuses?

Strongest build - lvl 50 SS/WP Brute with perma-Rage

Most fun to play - Rather fond of a Thugs/Pain MM who just hit 38 last night.

Least fun to play - A toss up between a Level 50 Mind/Psi Dom and 50 Inv/Energy Tank. Blech. Got both up to 50 at the last Double XP weekend just to get it over with.

Best of luck. We've tried expanding on the casual tone pre-determined outcome RPvP we've done and had a blast with in our group to little success. In my experience, most RPers won't touch even casual PVP with a 20 foot pole, and most PVPers won't touch RP with a 30 foot pole. To say the least, it's incredibly tricky finding the right balance.

Global Handle: The New Black
Forum Name: Agonus
Server: Virtue
RP Characters Heroes:
Bombshell Girl
Dr. Star
Sky Spectre
RP Characters Villains:
Agonus / Lord Agonus (same character)
Ahreman the Red
Burning-Star
Silver Scourge
Greywolfe
Steelbane
Type of RP: Mature Roleplay, which I think of as adult subject matter. Redside, I tend to enjoy finding ways to explore various levels of megalomania and Darwinism. Not on Blueside as much, but my heroes are a lot more light-hearted.
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