Techbot Alpha

Wait, what?
Thats wrong. The stun still takes effect. And Knockdown. And, yes, you can still be two shotted by them. At least thats happened recently when playing my PB.

Someone should probably check that though.

Everyone will, infalibly, get shouted at for having an opinion by someone else at somepoint in their life.
On these forums the people who shout loudest tend to have the least of a leg to stand on.
The ones who have facts and evidence and understand things post much more legible posts

Current RP situation?

Your not a good example, FFM.
You've ALWAYS had login troubles, even on the old forums!
Well, that and/or double posting. Did you ever offend the forum gods?

Its PFTG.
Pretendy Fun Time Games.

Slightly strange, but there are some of my characters as well that I play, type for, and think; How the hell am I coming up with this??

One of my SoA's, now deleted due to need for the slots and Rp-fadeout, was the stereotypical bad cop. He stole everything that wasn't nailed down, and even then he stole the nails if it was.
In real life, Im about as far as you can get from that. In game? It just...clicked. Lines came out of nowhere, mannerisms flowed naturally.

Characters do have lives of their own. Things evolve in ways you cant even dream of. Thats what makes for the best RP. Its a good thing.

(This is partly why I do still wish that PvP will one day be fixed. For the sake of Heroes vs Villains things that can be RPd somewhere other than a forum fight which, as always, doesnt work so well when their are multiple people involved. Egos and expectations get in the way, on all sides.)

^ This

I like them as the bad guys. In the sense that, without a strong and threatening foe, any story or game will suck.

Besides, it's a bit daft taking all this as anything other than a game. Especially a game which lets you be the bad guy.

I know you guys in the States are still very 'Omg Nazis Killkillkill!' and such. Anything including 'Nazi' might as well paint itself black, red and grow horns.


In real life = I'd never even consider anything to do with them, except maybe arrest
In a Game = Pretendy Fun Time Games. I like making stories, even about villains and anti-heroes and suchnot.

Also, Canon wise, the 5th aren't really Nazis anymore. Their leader is a gas-faced space alien hybrid looking to rule the world. Dictator, maybe, fascist? Only to Kheldians, probably

Well, it was that or a thread title that would have been somewhat hypocritical

This is the sort of thing I mean.
I know that it's 'Always been done that way'. Does that mean it's right?

It's probably more annoying due to the circumstances, and genuine new players would be much more interested in actually joining in the fighting. Maybe.

But I would hazard a large guess that, if people gathered in the park rather than by Ms Lib, people would all group there instead.

For anyone arguing that 'People wouldn't know where it was'...
If you failed to see the mass of blue names and/or the explosions and powers going off all around, you would have to be so blind that you actually shouldn't be able to play computer games. (Without being plugged into it, like Cerebro or something.)

For the arguement of 'Go somewhere else where it's safer' etc. It's still a matter of convenience and/or QoL. Trainers are a basic feature of the game. Yet they are not 'safe zones'. By rather strange comparison, WWs is. Thats a basic but not necessary part of the game. That just strikes me as...wierd, frankly.

Although the drones are, theoretically, supposed to keep enemies off the plaza, that doesn't help if they erupt right out of the ground/appear out of the ether, does it?

Treachery. Backstabbing. Bribery.
The way all inferior organisations come to power.

And, hopefully, the 5th are going to get some well deserved payback now

And, as always in RP, YMMV.

Some people hate it. Some people love it.
The MOST important difference is this;

OOC =/= IC
So long as you are an easy person to deal with OOC, so that agreements and such can be had, IC will run fine. Sure, the characters might hate each other, but both the palyers will be enjoying the RP.

And yeah, coupling a dark side with a personable face tends to be the best bet.
I have one actual Archvillain (as in pure evil, most of my redside's would count as just Villains)
He's completely evil. He's the one character I allow to be completely so, manic laughter and all.

As for other examples;
Ceasar the Troll. He's a troll. He runs his own crime circle. He will do anything to get to the top and beat the daylights out of those there or who get in his way. He's still a good people person, because dat's jus' good business, eh?

So is the park just in front of it. Or the areas nearby.
It's pretty hard to miss a big clump of blue names with all the auras and shields up

Isn't that all the more reason to make trainers out of bounds for Invasion spawning? No one likes being ganked. Being ganked when your afk sucks worse. Being ganked when your immobile, in a supposedly safe place on a different screen?
Hmm.

By the same arguement, the invasion hunters could move a grand total of a couple of hundred metres, have the exact same invasion with the exact same numbers and with the added bonus that people who aren't taking part can go about their business as normal.

Just general replies, by the way, and explanation of the reasoning =]

^
/Signed

And yes, to whoever mentioned animated tails. And make them look less like things on bits of wire!

Hmmmm...dried frog pills.

Sure they make you hallucinate, but at least they make you hallucinate that you're actually sane!

I sue for inequality!
Criminal rights!
...
Oh, wait, I already have that...it's called a ten foot robot with laser cannons, a flamethrower and swarm missile racks.

Democracy: Overrated
Robot superiority: Guaranteed
All your world: Are belong to me!


Still miffed I didn't get the chance to put my arc forward, seeing as I didn't notice this alternate competition =[

We don't talk about the Room of Doom!

We just don't...>_>

It's a perfectly valid one.
The person I duo my angel with plays a warshade. He has burned wings, and teleport.
Some people use the little wings just for looks. They might have any or none of the travel powers.

They can still get around the game with NO travel power whatsoever.
The point is moot because, if it limits travel, it won't happen. And no, you CAN Still run and SS and suchnot around place like Grandeville. NO map at all has places that cannot be accessed by foot. It's just incredibly difficult at times.

Not all robots are big hulking juggernaughts.
My namesake is an ideal example. He's smaller than human sized. He won't DIE if shot, cut and beaten up. But it's not particularly hard for a big enough and tough enough person.
Thats IF you can bet past his minders, who are not only big but they pack laser cannons as standard.

The point is again moot. Even against a tower of steel, a bullet has every chance of slipping through that tiny gap, or busting a weak plate, or somehow getting into the internals which, the more complex the robot, are more likely to be very fiddly and balanced and, therefore, vulnerable.

Thats a potentially game breaking issue, rather than an issue of travel. Slightly relevant, maybe, but it doesn't hold up to comparison.

Travel AT ALL in a zone = Requires a power = Broken
Character cannot be exactly accurate to mythos that would break the game = balance

If you don't like it, roleplay that your character has to go up for air, or adapt some other arguement for it. As does everyone else, myself included, who cannot quite match the vision they have for something. Which, in all other cases, is not as broken a context as this.

Not comparable.
It actualy is possible to see through walls, too. Buy yourself a slightly crappy laptop, crank the graphics all the way down to minimum. The walls will, at certain points, become visible after the enemies are visible. While its handy once or twice, it quickly gets disorienting and very, very annoying.

Wrong, it assumes you start with the same base-line stats as any other character, before AT modifiers. Yes that is slightly annoying, but it is necessary for reasons of balance in general.

And how is FORCING someone to take a power a better alternative than giving everyone access for free, while allowing them the access they already have to handwave things and/or come up with their own unique reasons for doing things?