Posts made by Carex

@Ganymede

Think of it like making a super-hero movie. Would the majority of people rather go see..

A) A super-hero movie told from the perspective of a street-cop who would one day become a great super-hero but they have to sit through two hours of non-stop flashback then a cliff hanger ending before the movie where he actually gets his powers is released a year later.

B) A movie about a cop who gets super-powers at the start of the film and gets to meet the interesting characters right away when he starts to hero about with his new interesting powers?

I think most people would choose B).

If you trying to let people skip the boring parts of being a new character, that's a great goal. I wholeheartedly approve of this idea because we should always strive to tell the most interesting parts of our stories. A multi-tiered, confusing system with weird confusing names seems a poor method to do it instead of just allotting everyone an XP bonus from the get go to flesh out their abilities more. It would let people skip to the fun parts where there characters aren't as useless as a level 1 D&D character.

@Botulism Looked at the Character Types page with stars, guest stars and all that then thought to myself, why would a new player want to play on a game where having over powered elites who could kill you on a whim is a FEATURE of the game? I understand that there will always be people who earn power over time, but those players tend to be fairly stable.

This looks like you are setting up a system that just encourages wild power level inequality from the gate. You might as well hang up a banner on the page that says, "Come be a disposable minion for our staff's alts!" because that is exactly what this system looks like: A justification for creating powerful characters for the people staff like and crippling the progress of the people who don't kiss staff's ass.

That might not be what it is but that is exactly what it looks like from the perspective of someone who has seen way to many games fall apart because of staff abusing their power.

Don't get me wrong. I see that you are going for letting people spend XP before they earn it so your character isn't lame when you start playing but if that is your goal, why not just give everyone extra starting XP once they finish chargen?

You've created a complicated and confusing system which could easily be replaced with a XP bonus that is no different from starting everyone in your party off at level 5 in D&D instead of being a lame level 1.

I asked Aqua about the mummy sphere for you and the reply was:
Aqua(Q) pages: Er .. that doesn't look like a plan for Mummy. And we're NOT doing a clone of CoH ... we're picking up from New Prospect (which was a forking from CoH, admittedly) ... so, no, at this time, there's no plans for it, just as there was no Mummy sphere at the beginning of CoH, and never had been on NP.

Half of which I don't understand because I stopped playing MU back in 2012 so I missed all the forking but I think Mummy is not in their future plans.

@Jennkryst That got shot down. I actually went to the other Prospect game and am playing there. 23.92.76.139:5555

Almost the same game but with more activity and you don't have to wait for approval to hit the grid. It's softRP till things get rolling.

A little bird told me that there is some drama between the possessed and the werewolves that could be the reason my app is taking so long. Which if that's true they could have just told me something was up and I would have apped something else but instead I've just been in limbo so I just went and apped at the place where you don't have to wait.

Free market at work. New Prospect Home Page

Yep, that's me. I wanted to make a support character first to get to know the place. I was going for a healer type who would be kept in some safe place away from the main grid that a lot of people still visit like a caern or something. Then I could have alts out in the public spaces without them overlapping.

I just started playing City of Hope or at least I will... eventually...
There seems to be a line of 20 people just waiting for staff.