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Crimson Knights? What?

But if it sounds like whatever that is, then i guess we can't use it.

But if you did want too, you don't really need sub forms for factions. It would be interesting, but I'd keep them as an NPC kinda thing till you get more people in this guild.

Did they have a counter organization to order in that?

Drama is a good idea, another issue that could be presented is that the game. Have one of the more timid girls start falling in love with a game character, then when they meet in real life, she could be really disappointed. (could that be Mao and Red? maybe)

or, maybe even some of the NPC's or programs or even bosses could start gaining free thought somehow, and you can tie that in. They start to question their existence, and not being able to take the fact that they are just creations of a higher being as a game, they try to organize themselves and attack players, it may even become so serious they are even able to target some of the root towns.

Alright, get creative.

that could work.

also on the BBS, post possible larger quests and whatnot, or things to investigate, we should try to make it a more "convincing" experience.

Mirai has the idea, get a few of the NPC characters to start freaking out, or requesting for help or somthing.

and we need more "involvement" in quests, i'm sure it's fun and all to write how the quest would go, but i imagine most people would make it so they would win, or win by a sliver or somthing.

I mean like in terms of battles with creatures, one of the Mods could play as a character nearby, or even the monster, so we don't have a low level character being all badass and taking out a large monster or something stupid like that.

if you guys need help with managing things, i can help.

Yea, control the bird.

And Mao always appreciates gifts, because Mao is awesome, Mao is great, Mao says these things to himself in the mirror every morning.

I dunno about anybody else, but I like to determine what happens to my character myself--obviously there needs to be some control, though, whether directly by the mods or through indirect rule. If we're going to use a randomizer for success in quests, I suggest that we have a percentage chance of completing the quest successfully before the quest is started, thought up by the mods based on the quest, the characters' classes, and their levels. After that (and also before the quest begins), we use the built in random number generator to create a number between 1 and 100 (perhaps a new subforum would be useful for threads to hold this info), and if the number is above that percentage, the quest fails, and it succeeds if it's below or on it. The lower the number is, the easier the time the character can end up having with it (though we could leave direct monitoring and control of that up to the player, I think, and reprimand them for godmoding, etc., if such occurs), and the higher the number is, the harder the quest is for that character. Mods/NPC-players can throw in extra obstacles, etc., if the character has rolled a particularly high number.



An example: Say my knight character receives a quest to retrieve the orb of fire from the depths of the volcano of Gurgu. I can invite two other players to come with me, but only one of the ones I invite is able to show, a black mage. Gurgu Volcano is a mid-leveled area, but our characters are about level 80, so the monsters won't individually present much of a challenge for us; there is a fairly high level boss at the end, though, fire elemental of course, but our wizard has some good ice spells. The mod who issued my character the quest determines we have a 75% chance of success.

Now. Say I get a 60. I and my partner determine while questing that our characters will successfully complete the challenge, perhaps running out of healing/mana-recovery items on the way there, so that the final challenge becomes quite difficult, but is still safely overcome. We retrieve the orb of fire and are rewarded with the space helicoptor.

Say, on the other hand, I get a 10. We determine that our characters will run into virtually no trouble, and face only a couple of random encounters. We'll be well prepared and well-equipped to defeat the boss, and we come through without much trouble. The orb of fire is ours, and we receive our space helicoptor award.

But perhaps I get an 80, and we are doomed to fail. We'll have a hard time of it, certainly, but we'll manage to make it all the way to the pit, and face the fire-demon boss, who we come close to beating before our characters are defeated.

And, heaven forbid it, if I happen to get the dreaded 100, we would be forced to make our characters face unsurmountable odds. We'd run into much higher level monsters than we would have expected, and our important healing items would be stolen or exhausted early on. We'd be defeated before we even got to the second level of the dungeon.



That's the general idea that I was thinking might work, in any case. Nitpick away. xP

EDIT: I got a 91. OUR CHARACTERS ARE DOOMED! DOOMED!

Thats a good idea for overall roleplaying, however there has to be a few balances to the equation, like if a lvl 80 character goes into a level 5 dungeon, then chances are there should be some kind of restriction, like if they are an extremely high level, they are almost guaranteed to succeed, which your going to have to factor in.

So.

I like how the .hack world, or at least in //SIGN, seems to have near limitless possibility coded into it, with code written on top of it to make it more of a game than a separate world. There're elements of that in this roleplay, too, and I was thinking another part could be a change in the way safe zones work--rather than making the weapons disappear, keep the weapons around, and simply make it so that players can't cause damage while in the safe zones.

Wddythnk?