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Originally Posted by SentaiStriker

You do know the only person you actually stole from was one of the guys you thought was awesome, right?

Originally Posted by MagicFlyingHippy

You aren't interested in advance warning of someone who sees no problem with stealing hundreds of millions of inf?

Originally Posted by Archimedes

Hey, who let Spartan have an idea? I thought that there were laws against that kind of dangerous stuff...

Originally Posted by Clobbertime

There are 4 dudes in that picture.

Originally Posted by Eat_Me

You mean like an entire SG made up of Spartans right after the movie 300 came out? Or an entire SG made up of the signature heroes when they were younger?

I seem to remember a certain someone playing a "Mini Manticore." Not ragging on you bro... but people in glass houses and all of that.

Originally Posted by Verene

Why would they care if you copy their property in their game? Are they going to sue themselves?

Originally Posted by Schismatrix

Spoken like a true paragon of uninformed assumptions. Taking a variant of a canon character's name and spinning it into a whole new persona that starts from the same roots and goes in a totally new direction is not usually the definition of plagiarism. But speaking from position of total ignorance you wouldn't know that, now would you?

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!
*thud*
*falls over*

Originally Posted by PeteyCat

Demetrios Vasilikos, MD, better known as Dr. Vhazilok.

From the wiki.

Originally Posted by ChaosRed

So it's a hot topic, one I think deserves a deeper discussion than "just play your own damn game".

Originally Posted by Demetrios Vasilikos

Funny thing. I just came back to CoH aftera few months checking out champions online. yeah I know I was weak and thought maybe cryptic actually wouldnt frell us over again. Silly me for thinking companies actually want to make a long lasting and successful game. I think those days might be in the past.

Anyways I actually dont have alot of complaints about CO except one. With no specific servers, and the population scattered across the shards RP is pretty much a lost cause. Especially random lore driven RP like I enjoy.

In CoH I find the most common flavors of RP are complete non lore based stuff mostly from new players who just make up whatever pops into their head. Nothing really wrong with that but it tends to give me the desire to say um wtf are you talking about.

The next is the SG based RPer. These are the kind that stick largely to SG rp creating complex stories that have no bearing on the general world nor much to do with it. These will often show up in TF in groups of 3 or 4, and if running the TF will be especially bad. It will fill team chat with endless babble and inane conversation about things taht can often be offensive enough to some to end up on my ignore list.

The final flavor is the one I fit into and get along with best. These are Lore based characters, flexible and ready to adapt to new information be it from a new issue or a player able to offer insight on a topic. These are not at all forced into specific boxes and often like me take what is and spin it into new directions while keeping the basics the same.

For example I have long owned a private sg base named for Crey and my and my bros alts are all members and have built up a nice little lair. We spin crey as not evil but morally neutral. Thier goal is very much to protect earth and humanity. We rp those that yo fight as not even rogue crey operatives but infact longbow black ops performing questionable actions and using crey gear and uniforms as a way to frame crey while hiding thier own misdeeds. Even created a AE mission that isnt to long or hard but very much gives evidence to this conspiracy.

By drawing from lore you can be as much a part of the world as statesman or a npc walking down the street. If all your RP draws from and has direct connection with game plots then when you discuss new players might actually assume what your talking about is indeed game fact. Older players will likely know something about what your speaking of and be able to join in without even being to much of an rper or even be OOC and still add to the coversation without it being to obvious.

Examples: GI Joe and Barbie Doll are joining a TF. They are part of the 80s toys rpsg. They fill the chat with banter about thier SGs latest rp event which had to do with several other SG members love triangle, and the fact one was a clone of another from a alternate timeline. Sure it probably is really interesting. To those who took part in it and know the other SG members. But to the 6 other guys in the TF its worthy of being put on ignore for and soon you relize your on a tf and cant actually talk to anyone else.

Now Demetrios my favored RP main goes into the club and while i am checking bios sees one mention being a former crey employee and does a good job over all. I go up and use the Didnt you use to work in a lab down the hall from mine intro. We get into chatting and soon are in a heated debate over the merits and morals of cloning and artifcial life forms. Since I am one myself IC and infact endorse Creys operation I speak of it froma purely hypothetical but potentially world saving science. She speaks of how she was a scape goat of a labs illegal research and crey hung her out to dry and left for dead in creys folly when things went bad. She makes use of the fact crey is always scott free of wrong doing. how her hero identity is so she can function without persecution as her real name brings with it.

We spend alot of time discussing our own stories but each is as familiar as it is unique and easy to follow and interact with. When we leave maybe she wonders if maybe crey wasnt the one who left her for dead but longbow ops who played her the whole time, and if a clone can be more human then the one he is cloned from.

Random long lasting indepth RP between to strangers that have alot in common because we use lore to its fullest. Ive even met one toon that was practically the eve to my adam in build and background connected to crey and the paragon protector creation. Its strange yet when you meet someone with a background as well formed as your own and a build as nearly perfect its a pretty cool feeling worthy of something out of a comic like when cable first met X man.

Originally Posted by Limedolly

Okay but think about this.


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