Doctor_Temporis

Hmm. I was due to get some skewers for tonight's meal of pork and pepper grilled kebabs.

However, with all this stick-poking, I don't think I want to give Ellie the weaponry.

Despite my protestations, Hiki has forced me to book for this event *sigh*.

Thus, you can expect our company Friday / Sat / Sun.

*sobs* My lovely money... gone... *sob*

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Cyberpathy: Similar to Telepaths, Cyberpathics are able to see, hear, and manipulate electronic communications.

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And if you really want to nark one off, wave one of Doc's devices at them.

Sorry Hannah!

I was going to use CSS, to be fair. I just didn't have the time when Hiki started pouting at me for a paper layout an hour before she wanted to publish.

That's because the paper didn't use CSS.

I bashed together a lot of ugly nested HTML tables because I was in a hurry. Ugly? Yep. Difficult to update? Sure. Tough to change layout and position? Hell yes.

Works in every browser?

Yup.

EDIT: It's also why, buried in the code for issue 1, can be found the following comment:

<!-- If anyone wants to give me grief over using Tables instead of CSS Positioning to layout the page, or multiple FONT tags rather than defining Styles, bite me. This was a quick bodge job. -->

Warning: Personal Viewpoint

I wanderered around the outskirts of the MERP (back when it was the Mos Eisley RP Community, and for a month or two after the shift to Mos Entha). The intent - as far as I could tell - was to allow for a common playing field for RP characters in the same universe.

This didn't have all that much impact on the groups of us who just used to hang around the Mos Eisley cantina and generally RP - which, to all intents and purposes, is what the Galaxy Girl meets are like.

Antitroll Acknowledgement: GG is not the entirity of CoH RP, etc etc

From an OOC point of view, it depends on a structure of 'GM' like figures. Since people tend to run their own plots, the political issues surrounding something like this (particularly for those many heroes not affiliated with SuperGroups) are large.

From an IC point of view, the potential for powers-conflicts when attempting to impose a level playing field is also an area of concern. Who gets to say what does and doesn't work? Whose powers break the gameset?

When you contacted me over tells, SW, I got the impression that there was something specific you wanted Doc to do or information to provide.

I'm afraid that I don't at the moment have the free time to join this RP on the boards, since your PM just provided a situation. Essentially I don't mind being an NPC under GM direction if you tell me what you want me to do or information you want me to give etc and I'll write the post to get the characterisation right, but I don't have time to be a PC at the moment.

Not got your PM, Silver Weasel, will wait, or if you don't need it any more, just PM me that.

Doc T

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I don't think distance from the Expo will be a problem...

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It will be if those staying at the Expo for longer than the Sat want to get drunk. Hence, walking distance is good. Because Sake is nice. But thanks for the offer :-)

Teppenyaki is very nice. But it stops conversation with more than the person on your left or right, because you all sit around a huge table-sized cooking plate with a space for the chef in the middle.

Cutlery: I'm sure they can provide you with a spoon. But yes, it's chopsticks.

With regard to Moshi Moshi:

A PDF of the 'menu' can be found here. Note that this only lists the platters and bento boxes which you order as you would a normal restaurant. The place also has the 'conveyor' system in which you select dishes priced by the plate. This is useful (not to mention fun) because it allows you to monitor your consumption-vs-meal budget. There is food other than fish.

There is a Teppenyaki restaurant in Brighton, but it's rather pricey and rather noisy. Plus, it's not within easy walking distance of the 'con, whereas MoshiMoshi is by the main Brighton carpark.

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mmmm, eating disorders, now there's a thought...

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You know that 'Stop the Nerfs' Avatar? I need a 'Stop the Angst' Avatar, but I don't have time to mess about with GIF animation at the moment.

I'll be the guy in the Blue and Gold power armour.

Better get on with the vaccum forming. The only problem's going to be eating with the gauntlet on.

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Just to be clear, this was, in fact, a joke.

Hold it in Manchester? Why, we would need sherpas and a camel train for civilised people to reach it. Anywhere north of London is Forn Parts, everyone knows that.

We're good as regards transportation, but thanks for the offer, FFM.

Regardless of proposals presented, opinions sought, or points refuted, please can we all refrain from ad-hominem attacks, especially ones directed at named individuals.

In addition, retracting a statement and replacing it with an insult, regardless of provocation, might be considered to be inflammatory. Ninja-posting often occurs, and retractions can be followed by accidental further insults. Best to stay safe.

While I cannot say I have seen a character called Divination or Netherbeetle at a Galaxy Girl meet, and am a regular attendee without alts, everyone is entitled to their opinion. It would be fruitless to argue the toss over such a subjective subject.

I wish you luck in finding a roleplaying enviroment more suited to your preferred style of roleplay.

This works both ways, however. For example, a magical field that nullifies anyone's magical powers but Lalane's. The fact that unless you have an amulet of uberness, you have to be able to breathe cyanogen. The fact that gravity may not exist.

All the above: why dimension-hopping without recon can be a bad thing.

The 'super hero' genre does encompass quite a lot of different genres, however. Some methodologies aren't in genre for a particular superhero style, hence the logical thing for one hero wouldn't be that of another.

In the same way that the Punisher could wander through a Teen Titans episode and machine gun the bad guys instead of having wacky hijinks. Nothing says that it shouldn't work, but it, well, might surprise the kids watching.

The M word is 'muppetry'.

Nope, this operation is Juan Ross's gig, and Doc T has asked his necessary questions of Minako, taken what action he considered necessary, and wished them luck.

His part will be staying behind trying to distract Minako from any suicide attempts if things go badly.

I would have preferred to see a flat rate based on base size, but it's not quite as doom as all that, just as with taxation.

Earn a hundred prestige, you'll end up with 99 prestige. Earn a thousand prestige, you'll still end up with 990 prestige.

What it does do is slowly trickle stored prestige away, though it would take over 920 rental periods to reduce an amount of unincreased stored prestige to 1% of its original total (due to the nature of percentage-of-the-whole taxation).

This figure is of course misleading since in most cases the prestige will not be liquid capital but spent base items. Accordingly there will be a strong requirement for continuous rather than 'stockpile and stop' prestige gathering, probably an impetus to ensure that people have to do the 'inf or prestige' balancing question more often.

This presents a difficulty for the 'gather and expand' method of base building, however, since as your base enlarges, there is no potential cap on rental payment. This means that if you spend a year slowly earning influence to buy a large base, you will need to spend correspondingly large amounts of time earning prestige to support it, and if your (net gather in tax period) is less than your (1% taxation), you will never be able to switch your base on (though your debt cannot grow). While it seems logical that the larger a base gets, the larger the rental should be, this does mean that there will be a point at which no matter how long a supergroup of size 'x' plays the game and stocks up prestige, they will not be able to expand their base further.

Concerning Base Rent

Information from the US boards indicates that 'rent' is based on a flat percentatge of the SG prestige total, both in 'unspent' prestige and in 'spent' prestige. The rate apparently starts at 1%, and tops out at 3% at 170 million prestige.

Thus, for our hypothetical elementary base of 1,491,000, assuming we had no 'unspent' prestige and had placed no personal or auxiliary items, the rent would be 14,910 prestige per rent period.

I have yet to track down the rent period, though indications are that it will either be biweekly or bimonthly. Let's hope for the latter. However, biweekly would not be unsurmountable since that is only eight man-days of collection, or roughly one of the full group.

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On that basis, merging the groups is not going to work and, humbly, neither is the Concordat unless it is a roleplay group. I've had a non-RP SG for roleplayers for ages on Union and the only people in it are my alts and one of Aisla's.

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I agree that without a motivation to unify, a nonrp RPers SG might not do too well. However, the intent behind the Concord - initially - is to provide the benefits of a functional base (non-raid teleporters between zones, resurrection within bases and reteleport to missions, inspiration selling items, and so forth) to the RP community.

I concur that it is perfectly possible for an alt-padded single or dual person SG to create themselves a nicely decorated huge room within a base. The idea here - besides getting all my comrades into a supergroup to actually enjoy the game in team rather than now-limp solo mode, one of the primary drivers - is to provide the benefits of a functional base (you may consider them unnecessary, that's a personal choice) to fellow RPers.

Personal spaces could be an added option for 'villain groups' within the Concord, that would of course take more prestige and so longer. The more people involved, the less time it would take.

However, it would seem easier to establish something like this in CoV since we currently lack pre-established SGs which have their own goals, likes, and dislikes, necessitating seperate decoration / base provision.

For current purposes and the ability to have some supergroup-chat-coordinated activity (due to the lack of global chat) in City of Villains, I have created a supergroup on Union CoV called 'The Concord'.

While this will be for RPers, it will have for the moment (until and unless substantive plans change on the subject of smaller SGs) no RP agenda for itself, merely acting to provide co-ordination and a chat channel, rather than an backgrounded grouping.

For an invite, PM 'Doctor Macavity' or 'Professor Prion'. I will update people to contact as we increase the numbers. All GG crowders are welcome, and it will help folks bimbling onto CoV to find people to level alongside.

Alts are welcome, with rarely used alts / temp alts to go in at 'Assistant' rank, regular alts to go in at 'Concordant' rank, and people's mains will go in at 'Unity Advisor' rank allowing them to invite other people.

Issues of base construction and so forth can wait.

For 1,491,000 Prestige we can obtain the Basic Functional base with an RP room in the center as a hub, rather than having to use the control room as a hub. This will give us more raw floorspace, at the cost of a further 150k.

ZIP File of Baseplan with RP Room as Hub and Teleporter

Note that we will also have to budget for decorations.

I have also noted that if we utilise the potential for arcane fixtures correctly, magic and tech oriented 'personal spaces' could be created even from functional rooms (such as the power room). I personally don't recommend this though since it's always annoying to have your carefully decorated room trashed when you need to install a bigger generator

I've heard nothing specific about rent *costs*, but nonpayment of rent doesn't apparently preclude access to your base, it just deactivates items dependend upon control and power (i.e. all crafted items with uses, rather than the decoratyness we RPers love).

I'm not sure exactly how you managed to fit those rooms in, since no base room walls may touch. E-mail me the xls sheet in which you managed it.

Incidentally, there is no restriction on what decorative items you put into what rooms. Apart from the fact that it needs a power generator in it, there's nothing to stop you from decorating the power room as a bedroom or office or whatever.

The rough figure for a 'bare bones' base with

1 Entrance room leading onto free 8x8 plot
1 Control room with a mainframe
1 Power room with a generator
1 Infirmiary with a resurrection device
1 Workshop with a basic worktable (either magic *or* tech)

is 910,000 prestige.