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Roleplay in VO
Some ability to roleplay in VO, restrictions as well as abilities to do things. It's a very vague suggestion, I know, but I can't put it into words too well. I'm hoping others can help.
Mostly because roleplay in VO consists mostly of D20-like paper-and-pen style roleplay, ie stories and nothing but. At least in real life, there's a game master to say "No, you can't be master and savior of the universe".
Not every Massive Multiplayer Online game is a Role Playing Game
Mostly because roleplay in VO consists mostly of D20-like paper-and-pen style roleplay, ie stories and nothing but. At least in real life, there's a game master to say "No, you can't be master and savior of the universe".
Not every Massive Multiplayer Online game is a Role Playing Game
"No, you can't be master and savior of the universe"
But, but, but...
how would Miharu exist, Moldy?
But, but, but...
how would Miharu exist, Moldy?
As the good people of Home Depot say...
Not my department.
Not my department.
I think I know what you mean, moldyman.
I'll try to say it as I understand it.
In this world, there are lots of people. This multitude results in a great diversity in skills and expertise. But some people actually excel at one or more things to a point that makes them geniuses.
These people are few and far between, however, that does not diminish 'the rest'.
For in order to carry out the great ideas conceived by such people, a great many others are required to do the work until it can be done, or the work that is required to do it, to realize it.
The question how these individuals should be selected in VO is a difficult one, however, and I do not see an easy solution.
I'll try to say it as I understand it.
In this world, there are lots of people. This multitude results in a great diversity in skills and expertise. But some people actually excel at one or more things to a point that makes them geniuses.
These people are few and far between, however, that does not diminish 'the rest'.
For in order to carry out the great ideas conceived by such people, a great many others are required to do the work until it can be done, or the work that is required to do it, to realize it.
The question how these individuals should be selected in VO is a difficult one, however, and I do not see an easy solution.
Sort of.... a system for roleplay. It is easier in games such as EVE and WoW, since they are the D20 style many people know. One roleplays their characters by advancing them along a certain skill line, giving them certain equipment, taking certain quests but not others. In VO, a predominantly twitch based game, it is lacking.
And a system for a twitch game as opposed to computed dice rolls is a wee bit more difficult, hence the thread to churn up ideas.
And a system for a twitch game as opposed to computed dice rolls is a wee bit more difficult, hence the thread to churn up ideas.
Think of ships like your characters....so..
The types of ships you fly. The weapons. The colors of your ships (and someday, the armor, the configuration, the painting patterns)
How you fly, the missions you've done, your medals...
The types of ships you fly. The weapons. The colors of your ships (and someday, the armor, the configuration, the painting patterns)
How you fly, the missions you've done, your medals...
I think this thread wouldn't have happened, and hence didn't need to happen, if only more of the people hell-bent on role-playing were interested in playing a role of someone other than an angsty teen in front of his computer.
Speak for yourself...