Big_Lunk_EU

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I know the risks of creating characters like that. That's why as a failsafe, my character projects a deliberate degree of uncertainty about his status in RP, it's treated as myth.

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Of course one could look at all vampires as being like RL vampires: a bunch of nerdy emos who self harm and like to go "Blaeh" while claiming to be immortal, despite being born 20 years ago in Devon to middle class parents.

Not what i do, i just refer to them as parasites, but the option is there.




anyway, on the subject of community acceptance of cannon.
'purely' theoretical example.
Say a certain well known RPer wrote a piece of fiction where her male peace bringer character has its way with another slightly lesser known player's main male power suited blaster, including tentacles and crying like a little girl.

If the entire community decided that this was cannon, and became common knowledge, and that player B's denial was purely IC denial of something he was (understandably) ashamed of, would it then become "player cannon"?

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she does chew on Freakshow arms tho FFM ..P

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I'm sure he means while doing heroey things, what she does in her private life doesn't count :P

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Before I tried RP in CoH, I'd heard all kinds of stuff about "RP nazis" in other games. I've not even sniffed one in CoH.

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They're about, and usually im proud to wave the banner myself, but i've found the "RP Nazis", or elitists, in CoX are more prone to correcting you when you make a mistake, and helping you improve, than going "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG! GO DIE SOMEWHERE, SUCKY NOOB! WREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"

It's rare that a newbie is considered beyond hope of improvement that the community shuns them, but there are some puff tailed flop eared examples of this.

It's a conspiracy. The US government is covertly training us all for war. The rikti, hellions, trolls, malta... they're all cia operatives playing a role.
When they implant your medi-port chip with your licence, what they're really doing is implanting a receiver, which causes pain or paralysis depending on the projector device fired at it.
PROJECTOR DEVICES THESE MOBS (cia operatives) HAVE BEEN GIVEN!

they effect you differently depending on a signature code in the "weapon", giving a scale of "danger" up to a "level" they consider you to be at the peak of the training.

Just you wait and see, one day they will orchestrate a terrorist attack from the planet Puppulon, and we'll be tricked into war!



(opinions stated within may be the product of a deranged mind, detached from reality)

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Actually... Security level is a totally valid RP concept. I think you're getting mixed up with power level, a separate entity. Your SL is a measure of the trust the city puts in you.

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I've heard them used interchangeably, which is the annoyance.
SL is what keeps you out of the RWZ at sl2.
We do not (or at least most of us do not) explode in a flash of light and suddenly become more powerful when city hall pages us that our SL has increased.

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If you claim to be so powerful that you could wipe out scores of Rikti in a thought, I'll invite you to the warzone in an 8 man group and watch you solo it

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I did that with a 7 man team while the others where elsewhere. IC that fits.

I also duoed the Lady Grey TF with a sidekick, up to and including beating the weakened hammidon. IC that shouldn't be possible.

The argument "prove it" does not always work.

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Story canon > Player canon > Game-mechanic canon


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This^


Also It actually irks me to hear game-mechanic terms ic. The "class" thing can be passed off as bureaucratic pigeon-holing for the licence, but mention of security level is the big one. There are so many factors that tend to make the SL void when RPing, that it can break immersion for me to hear, especially as some form of gauge of power.

getting back on topic of what sounds like a rather interesting out-of-continuum idea...

Having had run ins with gods, and being agnostic himself, Lunk would definitely be opposed to some omnipotent being interfering with stuff, and would aggressively resist, even at the cost of mass collateral damage of 'lost' people.
His own connections to mythological beings, his magic using wife, and uneasy truce with Morrigan, means he'll likely hover closer to any mystical or old-religion type resistance groups.
KM-Tech would be put on full production of Eve/Acp units for as long as possible in order to help fill resistance ranks, before going underground.

Yes, RP is generally done whenever possible. When a team of RPers get together for missions, it's common that someone will ask "IC or OOC?" (in character, or out of character). In other words, sometimes RPers RP in missions, some times not, but it does happen.

Usually this amounts to the use of macroed and typed quips and one liners, and banter between instances.
If the mission is part of a user run plot line, other things may also be involved, such as examining something, questioning an NPC, or Captain Fantastic taking a bullet to the liver for "teh dramah"

Big Lunk: my fourth char ever made (way back when), after several attempts of getting a char i felt comfortable with, usually due to the names funnily enough.
I wanted a name Incredible-Hulk-ish: short and seemingly powerful (although Lunk is very unlike Hulk).
His real name, Ben Campbel, is a mixture of my real name, and a false name i used to use when the need arose. Big Ben Campbel had a ring to it, even without the pseudonym.

Eiserner Drache: Long since deleted due to not being used, i still like name. Iron Dragon in German, so called for the winged armour suit he wore.

I think the problem is that Arachnos troops don't fit the mould of a standardised army.
They're a mixture of army, police force, swat, and special opps, so trying to come up with a rank system that covers them all will be nearly impossible.

What is more likely is that there is a rank system (likely not corresponding to normal military rank) within each arm of the Arachnos forces. For example there could be a "sergeant" and "private" analogues within both crab spider (SWAT according to their bio) and wolf spiders (army i think), but that doesn't mean a crab spider sgt is a commanding officer over a wolf spider, same as a police sgt cannot give orders to a private in the army, or vice versa.
The only person with any command over all being the arbiters.

Of course that's just how it appears to be to me.

I'll be there as an observer, should be a good bit of entertainment

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The lack of Story Arcs (and poor quality of existing ones compared to CoV Arcs), the amount of hunt missions

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Although i prefer villain ATs, i always found CoV to be the one lacking in content. Unlike heroes where at several level points i have multiple zones to chose from, CoV is very linear.

2 tips:

1 you don't HAVE to do hunt missions. you usually get given a choice of 1 hunt, 1 instance outside of arcs. when a contact only offers hunts, move on.

2 organise a regular Duo with a friend so you've always got someone you know to play with. CoH ATs work a lot better working together. A tank and Blaster, or scrapper and controller makes for good teaming.

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About half way through I realised that the pixel limit was 80 x 80, which would entirely bork up the image.

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It's all a question of optimisation to avoid jagged blocky pixels, Timothy.
Anti-aliasing, selective sharpening and softening. That any use to you?

and nice pic, btw

I know Censorship is planning a world dom group, or atleast revolutionary/paramillitary.
Dont know much about it detail wise, but i already have a concept earmarked for it.

((sorry for disappearing like that, but my connection decided it would be a great time to [censored] about.

For those left hanging, just assume "Evalyn" made her excuses, and slipped off))

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bored with AoC finally lunk??

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Welcome to last month
you are, however, going to have to remind me who you are, and why that comment is important.

... or connected to the topic of traditional costumes for that matter.

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Smooth, silky, black Cyclist's Lycra is kinda sexy though.

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I don't care, i still don't want to see you in it :P

Urban=street clothes. not as in urban hip-hop fashion.


I'd say most of my chars dress in light body armour and cloth, my spandex heroes and villains tend to have a very short lifespan, as they tend to look silly (like the classic x-men do)

Spandex is so 1940s, Kevlar and leather is where it's at these days. :P

Oh wow, more redundancies
Seems like they're happening everywhere.


Dropping the guys who do the marketing at events seems to be a pretty dumb idea, but then I've never seen a batch of redundancies yet where they don't get rid of at least one good team member (not that i'm saying anyone in NC is a slacker, mind :P)

Fingers crossed, here, for the lot of you.
You guys are the greatest MMO community liaison team i seem, even better than your US-side counterparts. NCsoft reps are always more part of the community than just moderators/faq answerers that many others are.

[u]Briefing room, Paragon City[u]

"If I can have your attention gentlemen? thank you."
Around the room, the assembled team sit in varying states of relaxation, while a grey haired man addresses them from the front.

"For some time now, we at the United Nations Security Council have had a problem. There have been times when we have had need of intervention where our normal Peacekeeping forces will not suffice, where direct and precise action is needed, and where it is too sensitive to send in the average hero-on-the-street.
This is where you come in. You all have proved yourselves in countless occasions to be capable of getting the job done, no matter how high the stakes.
You will be formed into an elite team who will operate independently from any nation to strike hard at the threats to all nations.
You will have as much resources at your disposal as we can allow, and all you need worry about, is getting your missions objectives complete, in any way you see just.
You will be given a uniform, expenses, and an operations facility, how you choose to use them is down to you.

You are the United Nations International Tactical Squad. Codename: Red Griffin.

Dismissed."



((okay, in case you haven't guessed it yet, its SG founding time again!
A few people where getting bored with the lack of gritty, harsh, 'realistic' RP, so among us four, we've come up with a plan to save us all from saving kittens from trees.

So what is there to know?

1: The Red Griffins are a hardcore RP group. This means there is a certain level of role-playing competence expected of all its members. The ability to discern between IC and OOC, accepting of consequences, and trying to maintain a certain level of believability are among what we hold to our core.

2: Gritty is good. Fluffy is nice occasionally, but some times you just want to beat up some guy and jam his shattered tibia through his chest... and sometimes you want to RP that too. Batman Begins > batman & Robin.

3: We're harder to get into than a gnat's chuff. Some SGs have open door policies, and take on anyone who is generally a nice guy. For varying reasons, the core 4 disagree with such recruitment methods. Here, you wont get in without someone first vouching for you, an observation period, and a short trial period. Hassle, yes, but you know at the end of it your let in for a reason other than bumping member numbers.


we now return you to our scheduled program))

"If your here to look for nukes, you got the wrong guys, we don't deal in such crude b****cks."

The gigantic figure of Ben Campbel stands arms crossed behind his back, the tail of his coat flicking in the winds from the propellers of the helicopter which landed moments ago on the KM-Tech mobile factory in the Atlantic ocean.
Two suited men in black sunglasses walk towards him, one with a hand outstretched in greeting, which is ignored as the giant turns on his heels, and strolls away.
"I'm positive you'll find us above board. Make this quick"

One of the men calls after him "Mr Campbel, this isn't a weapon's inspection, we came to offer you a job."

"I have a job. Your standing on it"

"Mr Campbel, in light of your previous criminal activities, i think it would be beneficial for you to accept."

The giant pauses, turns, and marches back to the agent, leaning down into his face "Was that a threat?"

Leaning back slightly, the suited man laughs nervously "no, no, it was a ...eheh... i mean it would help your public image... doing good for the world..."

After an uncomfortable silence, the giant smirks "Fill me in."

((The following is a RP project brought to you by Franklin's Baked Goods Boxing.
"no one punches a doughnut quite like Franklin's"))




[u]United Nations Headquarters, New york.[u]


"Sir, I have the Interpol files you requested"
A grizzled, black suited man looks up from his desk to the young male clerk brandashing a fistfull of manila folders.
"Good, Simmons, take a seat"
"Are you sure these are the right people, Sir?" the younger man asks, as he drops the files on the desk and sits.
"This squad has to be ruthlessly officiant, Simmons, these are men we KNOW can get jobs done."
"Yes, Sir"
"Read them out to me."
The clerk clears his throat as he repositions the stack of folders in front of him, reads the first sheet in each before placing it aside.
"Murumbi, Noah. Kenyan national, part of the Maasai and a top grade marksman. One of the only candidates of the, uh, Kenyan super soldier program. Excellent, if unorthodox, stealth operative.
Campbel, Ben. British national, trained black-opps soldier, former mercenary, assault specialist. Strong pro-Europe patriot, unlikely we will have any trouble getting him to sign up.
O'Bannon, Cormack. Irish Republic national, former IRA, no prizes for guessing his speciality. Insurgency, firearms, good, better with explosives and better in a fist-fight. Known to drink a lot, and there's something else: He's a Vampire.
Renaru, Erion. Extra dimensional entity, large, blue and hairy. Specialises in the supernatural, and able to control the elements. He's a risk however, being a non-terrestrial, although his record shows no run-ins with the law, and Azuria, the woman who deals with M.A.G.I recruits in Paragon, speaks highly of him."
"Good. Bring them in, and begin looking for next wave of recruits"


((Further information to follow after these messages...))

i'll be on, semi-afk most of this evening, drop me a tell at @Big Lunk, and wait a couple of minutes for me to spot it :P

make sure you let me know who you are, too, otherwise i'm going to be stuck playing guess the globals.

((aaand that's it folks :P
okay, took me a while to decide, but the winners are....

His_Hairiness: 50 million inf.
Good length, good reasons, and IC the orphan angle is something that would catch Lunk's attention.

Ashley gray: 25 mill.
Fanservice: 25 mill.
Both well put across. Liked fans' jetski comment (humour is always good) and Ashley's mention of references.


Special surprise bonus for Merrow and rebekah: 1 million each for taking part.

Prizes are going to have to be claimed before the 22nd of may, and as i'm a wee bit busy, post in this thread the best time to drop the inf across to you, and i'll get there.

If it cant be done before the 22nd, i WILL try and leave the prizes with a trusted 3rd party, and let you know in this thread.

once again, excellent work, all of you. and thank you for taking part ))