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NUMBER ONE: TECHNOLOGY

This has come up in the rp lately, and a few members have complained, and personally I'm getting a bit fed up with it. So we're going to have to define it very very well before I godmode will off everyone abusing it.

Nathien Bloodguard was a moderator for me before this rp was even thought up of. He's from the older guild rp. But he's volunteered to look up time periods and what was available weapon wise so we can decide what "time period" we're in and around what "country" since Japan came into the possession of gun powder much earlier than Europe
(I can't believe we're actually having to use that. Evangel was actually getting kinda mad because we didn't say if we were medival Europe or Japan!)

Anyways, We need to come up with some specific rules and guildlines about this.
Can we or can't we have guns?
Explosives?
Teleporter machines?
cannons?
the list goes on and on...

NUMBER THREE: Down sizing the moderating task force

This is one that I feel will be inevitable. There's just not enough work to do. When I give out projects it only takes 1-2 people to do them, and half the time the people I give them to don't do them. I give out the projects for your benefits as moderators. If you're not an active mod, then why be a mod at all? i'm not saying it to be mean, it's more meant to be a fact.

The way I see it right now, there only needs to be four moderators, myself included. One for each element. Whether or not you're in that element I will have one of my remaining mods keep the peace and enforce the law. That doesn't mean you have to follow "water" people aren't the guild, you're not their babysitter. Just keep up with what's happening in your "country"

It's going to come down to who's the most active. And not just rp wise, but moderator wise. Who tries to help out the members the most? who answers questions and tries to calm fights? Who takes action?
If you get demoted, I'm sorry. I hope with all my heart that you chose to stay and rp, because I still think you're awesome. I just need to down size a bit.

it is now open for discussion. If you wanna start working on one let me know. The ones I really REALLY want to get out of the way are the profile and occupational ones. However the technological ones are still very urgent aswell

I believe every character on their profile should have a set of abilities their character is capable of, and to pull out random magic that takes care of any situation like some kind of godmod makes no sense. Characters need to have more limitations. Many many more limitations. I don't like guys with big dragons and impenetrable bodies shrugging off every bit of damage that comes their way. Call me biased against dragons, but people who control dragons seem to think they're invincible.

The crush thing was optional. I got the idea from an rp I was in, but they had theirs because they used it to keep track of royalty and the cheating princes and princesses. I think that instead of Crush it should be changed to marital status, I still want to keep it.

Dragons are pretty durable...and I agree with Phae that it should take a lot of people to bring them down. They are bigger than buildings most of the time. However, I think we might even have to describe some of the races, give them weaknesses and strengths. For certain species we may even consider putting down how to kill them. Not just Dragons, but even sirens or banshees or things like that. Because it's kind of hard to kill a siren which can bewitch you, or a banshee which can break your ear drums

A set list of abilities is a good idea in my opinion. It would keep people from creating more every time they were in trouble.

I think we may have to more closely narrow what fire can do. You can't make an explosion out of nothing. Fire balls? That's a bit iffy. But I like to tihnk of Avatar (and I know it might be cheating). Look at the stuff they could and couldn't do. I don't recall fire being able to make explosions out of nothing

I've also thought about the whole temple thing...temples only work if we create dieties. THey don't have to be rp'd by us (like they were before, that just causes too many problems). We could make a chain of temples. But if we did that, I would suggest that we did like D&D and put a spot on their profile for their Diety.
The purpose of this would be that we could go on the mule and either reward or curse their characters based on their actions. Like...say we made a diety who was for love and birth, and they killed a pregnate woman (not likely I know) but they'd get cursed for it. It's just an idea, but it would help give a moral value system in a sense.

Personally, and I know if might just be me. But I think of science and technology like this. Back in some year, doesn't matter to me, but a long time ago. There was both science and magic. And people instead of trying to pursue the path of science, chose magic instead since it defies the laws of almost everything. It doesn't mean science doesn't exist, but it would mean that it is extremely not developed much at all. Why?
Well, if you think of it this way, why would they bother trying to figure out how to create light with light bulbs or anything if they could say a spell and create an orb of light that could have any intensity they wanted for any amount of time they wanted?
I don't know if they would have a connection sometimes as opposed to others, I'd need an example. As for how far it is in evolution, I'm not sure about that either

Well, the thing about science is it provides a deal more reliability. Arcanists can counter-spell one another on the fly. Magic storms and anti-magic fields can put a damper on spell casting.In WoW Gnomes chose both technology and magic. They seemed to excel at both though. It's more of a give and take measure, some intellectuals didn't do so well at magic but did better with engineering and vice versa. It's like Why do archery if you can just toss javelins with enough force and accuracy? Or why focus on using a sword if an axe is a much better chopping weapon?

Also I know I keep prodding you about this but occupation and character class are fundamentally different in most cases.

@Phae: I keep forgetting that...but which are we going to use and how??? I've never really seperated them that much, never had to. And I'm sure a lot of other people don't get the difference. So would what we have now as occupations classify as classes? Could they be changed into them?

@Sewn: I know the profile thing is daunting. But if you fill it out? It seriously isn't that bad. And a lot of it is just expanding on other things. Some of it (like the old one) will be optional, like the pets again.

Let me explain how some of it will work.

Elemental Abilties:
These are things anyone can do, but if its a bit more unusual to your element and you do them, they'd go here. For instance...Mine for Lus might include Controlling and Manipulating Strong Air currents in the atmosphere. Being able to catch what people say on the wind and carry it to my ear.

Occupational Abilities (might change into class abilities):
These are things that wouldn't neccesarily be in the job descriptions (that will be created) they'll be things that you specialize in, or they could be directly from the description. It's to keep track of bizzare happenings. An example for me would be my replicas. Illusion is very good at replicating, whereas for FPS he might put down for Mor that he's god at creating nightmares.

Equipment/Garbs:
Even if you have a picture, I'd still like this filled out. Because it helps lessen confussion when your character all of a sudden has armor when in your pic or description she's/he's hardly wearing anything at all.

Weapons: Some people have multiple, even if they're not their main ones. And if they only have one? They only need one "-"

Talents:
such as being able to talk into someone's mind. Seeing in the dark. Transforming into a frickin dragon.

Biography:
Doesn't have to be as detailed as it is here, but it's not like it has to be a three paragraph story. I want to know where they're from, and why there's wherever they are. Unlike Orin and his whole "I'm a traveling person who just happens to be insane and can kill you I think"


Having a lot of members is a good thing, but it's not worth it if it brings our standards down. I'm making a poll, based on that it will or won't be changed.