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So I guess I don't see myself as a bandwagon-jumper. I never imagined Disco Fever as anything other than bisexual.

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Not to say that you are or aren't, but I ask one question of you...

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(Hm, I might activate my old completely unleveled character, Disco Fever - if anyone would stick it to either gender, it'd be him. And he's got the funky disco powers to back it up!)

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Why? ... or more accurately, why are you considering it now?


Disclaimer: I didn't mean to attack anyone. I simply wondered, and perhaps tried to make those 'bandwagon jumpers' to "think before they leap" (god I love it when a saying fits so perfectly). I don't want to rain on anyone's parade (or bandwagon in it). If you want to do it, then do it.

Some of my responses to things said in this thread.
They are my own personal views, which may or may not be shared by you, your characters or my own characters.


Humanity stinks. The human race is a voilent race bent on domination. And it's human nature to herd together.

Individuals may be anything they like, but a group of people is usually equal to the least of it's members.. and half IQ at that.

A character in a book once said "I have no faith in human kind, I have faith in individuals".
Things like mass-hysteria, peer pressure and hooligans are great examples of this.


On equality... there is no equality, it is an illusion. You (who ever reads this) and I (the writer of this post) are not equal.
I may be smarter then you, you may be smarter then me, I may be stronger, you may be bigger, I may be male, you might be a woman. The differences mount up and we are no longer 'the same' and so no longer 'equal'.

Nice example:
I might be a carpenter, and you a farmer.
You need to have something made or fixed, so I hold power over you.
I need to be fed, so you hold power over me.
We are not equals. We will never BE equals so long as I am not you, and you are not me.


And to finish with an uplifting message..
I think there are more and more individials that are kind and benign. And as more and more of such individials appear, peer pressure will work in our advantage for once.

Hmmmm...


I now sense in influx of posts going
"hey, I'll make a **** character"

and I wonder... why?

Because they want to play one?
- then why haven't they already?

Because it's suddonly hip to play one?
- it was hip to be a catgirl, it was hip to be a clockwork, it was hip to be a robot, it was hip to be a teen... only 20% of those hip catagories remain, the ones that were already there.

To fill a void that appearantly excists?
- and what good will that do, I wonder.

Because they suddonly are aware of the option?
- and what good will that do, I wonder.

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*imagines Red curling in a ball shouting "Ze Horror! ZE HORROR!!!!"*

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Not likely. Red IS a War Veteran.

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If even the last year of GG hasn't made him curl up in a ball shouting "Ze Horror! ZE HORROR!!!!" ... then I don't think a little war will phase him

In Canon (or at least how I remember it) the Nictus often bond with ... weakened humans, who have undergone a lengthy time of near starvation and such and become weak, primairily mentally.
This is so that the victim agrees to the bonding (it has to be agreed to)

some rescued captives of such there are stories (or rather clues) that some have retained most of their will and rejected the bonding.

It might be plausible that instead of the Nictus overpowering the victim's mind, the reverse is also possible (though less likely due to selection of host)

Oh, and Nictus are the badguys, Warshades are different only in that they've turned away from the evil.

as I recall it from ingame canon.

there's also the part where there's an abundance on female characters, compared to male ones.

I was in Pocket D once and there was a crowd of about 15... and one of the women practically bounced up and down asking "where are the guys?"

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Sadly, a lot of them are still brushed into the "kiddy with his pants down" category which is enormously frustrating.

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What does this mean? (probably some british thing I don't understand... yet again)

and perhaps that lesbians are more socially acceptable then male homosexuals?

Probably because it's mostly males that make up what is socially acceptable...
(I hear more about men beating G-people... I've yet to hear of women beating up L-people)


And in the typical male testosterone fuelled mind:
Lesbians are hot
Homosexuals like men, so must like me, so will come on to me... and that makes them a threat in some way.

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Good question.. How IS Grav Mistress going to deal with it?

/me sniggers!

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OI! Cheap shot!

You know what I want to know?



How are GOD characters going to deal with this... you know the kind... The ones that can snap their fingers and worlds are born/destroyed. Can lift mountains (pretty decent ammo, I'd say) ... or say, create a black hole?

The Kings Row teleporter plants you very close to the Yellow line, also a nice point.

My main bonded with a Peacebringer, and as the main has a strong personality and the Peacebringer was wounded at the time, my main is only a little influenced personality wise, but she can let the Kheldian take over.

Hehehe, nice one Max

I guess you're right, Lunk.

Hmmm... maybe Tower of Power can out do his uGG version and park a Rikti Mothership in the Northsea... without loosing his team and slip in to a year long coma...

Maybe Grav Mistress will once again take command of the Peregrine Defence Force until being relieved by General Hammond (as in the Requiem War)

Maybe Roselin will fight side by side with Lady Patriot for Paragon... maybe she will just keep her shop open in Port Oaks and keep the Rikti and looters out of her jewellery shop.

Maybe Rosalin will be locked inside her birthlab... maybe she will be out Head(man) hunting?


I'll wait for it to hit test, hope my overall mood over the theme will have improved a little, and hope test will show me it's not all that bad... not holding my breath, though.

What I'll be asking myself is... how can I ignore this for my characters...


edit: Please bare in mind that I am the official first Naysayer of i10... the theme, that is, not the features which I think will rock.

I would expect a coalition to be for such defenses.
I don't think they should work for attacking, though.

The Monkey Fight Club was originally like the Paragon Dance Party ... a zone in between zones, with 3 entrances.
So, like the PDP and now PD, it was a short cut zone for most, with lounging ability.

There's a 'house' on a hill in Cap Au Diable (or was it Port Oaks?) that has stairs leading down to a sub docked there. It has the red "Boxing Monkey" painted next to it's door still, that used to be one of the entrances.


If CoV has one MFC, why can't CoH have one PDP too?
That place'd be pretty much deserted!



Part of the reason GG was picked was because it has a function besides RP. So that people could come there on a mission, look and wonder what's going on... in the hopes they get interested.
The other one was so that lvl1's could get there easily and without threat.

Actually, demo recording doesn't work for bases.
As all the base material is online, not client based... you get no visual of any base item.
Probably why bases take longer to load..

The right styling of a military cap?
with the nice gold trimmings on it?

I personally wouldn't choose the tall one... but it might work for you (personal prefference and all)

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I'd like to see a general consensus between all of us in the RP community to build our own unofficial time-line of all the events, both major and minor

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A general consensus? I wish you luck with that.
Even as wide spread as The Requiem War was, it did not have 'general consensus' (although probably as close as it gets for something so... worldchanging). One of the excuses used was a temporary alternate dimension, started and ended by requiem.... some were in it, others weren't.



And those catgirls? They don't march en mass on a city.. they slip in solo or in small packs, then... once they're inside and with sufficient number.............

Gratz on an other lvl closer to 50.... and beyond!

Happy birthday!

and I do believe most (if not all) are found under the "desks" tab
Which has desks, counters, tables and such

WOW!

When I saw the uncoloured, I thought colouring might ruin it. The black and white theme fits the 'ace of spades' part so well.

But now that I see the coloured version, I'm baffled at the level of debth it adds, the nuances of black, the hues of gray on the gloves and boots...
It's raised it to a new level!

It'd also be nice to actually be able to check the info without having the prestige

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You have some good ideas ther ShadowGhost, especially the cobwebs and the Lab,

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Thanks, but I'd like to point out that idea, and infact that entire post wasn't mine... just copied from the other thread.


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I would like to see...
More construction items...in particular larger stairs (raised platform down to sunken one)
Personalised workbenches, teleport pads...etc...

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Hmmmm... to add to those ideas...

A DIY nut's workbench (with the tools and such, both cluttered and neat?)

As for the stairs... how about making them modular?
We have the normal 'one tier' stairs that go from ground to 1 up? How about we get a from 1 up to 2 up, which would bridge the gap between the first stairs and the 2up floor level? And of course the 2up to 3up stairs?
And while I'm at it... a square to fit in with that theme, stackable with itself so you can make stairs go in a corner as well as straight?