@dillinger Not to hijack this thread but since you are peddling bullshit and the comment hasn't been moved, I guess I need to ask: do you believe in anything you just said, or are you just not that bothered by their human rights violations including, and not limited to, actual concentration camps for religious minorities and rampant racism?
Just curious.
Btw, love that the game has a CoD codebase! Wish you luck, dude!
Updates:
We should be opening next week, Monday or Tuesday. Our coder still needs to test a few things, the wiki needs some ironing out, but we are all excited about it!
We might share the address earlier so people can connect, talk with us and each other, plan ahead of time before you can actually send your applications. 
Responses and pitches have been amazing. Thanks everyone who sent one!
@tempest imagine banning all those people to flex your (very very minor) authority only to be forced to reconsider it all because you went absolute mad over the very small bit of power you were given.
Pretty wild. Some would even call it pathetic. And creepy.
@phase-face This is a story-driven game, and we want players influencing the game through story. If the Brotherhood is being hunted down by the Avengers, the X-Men can choose to intervene to protect them, for example, or do their side of the plot. Maybe a X-Man slips to a SHIELD agent that Xavier's is the home of the X-Men, and that will have consequences too.
The idea is that the Brotherhood and the X-Men, although opposed in many ways, are still together in the 'we are all mutants' front. Our storytellers are here to provide the opposition, be in the form of the Avengers, Apocalypse, Marauders, Sublime or what have you.
In general, our plots will aim to provide both sides with different approaches that will have consequences if done one way or another. If players don't react, then we will provide an 'all things remaining constant' scenario and go from there. We want these ideologies, and how these characters live them, individually, to have an impact in the story. This is why the Pitch comes first. It is the most important step of the app process.
@ganymede said in Season of Endings:
You are, and always will be, a gentleman of the finest distinction.
Vale, magister.
Out of touch and creepy.
We are taking people through the process like any other player, yeah.
That being said, we won't be doing 'competition' for apps. If someone gets to a character first, they get the chance to app them first. Although we are willing to refuse applications based on if their pitches match or not the theme and vibe of our game, nobody on staff is willing to decide 'who loves/understands a character more than another player'. Even if players handle that superbly (which in our experience, most people do not) it is just so subjective and, quite frankly, unpleasant that we decided to go with the alternative.
@ganymede Accepting responsibility would be stepping down from your position. You fucked this.
@boneghazi Absolutely sad. This guy knew his art, he knew his writing, and he did it superbly. One of my absolute favorites and he will be missed.
Great replies.
I want to touch on power levels a bit. As @Arkandel mentioned, there are only two instances where that is an actual concern, and both of those warrant a talk from staff if they become a constant with any player of our game. As we have plastered all over the wiki, sharing the fun is paramount in our game.
Likewise, most of the extremely powerful characters are getting hit with a friendly nerf bat to diminish (but not eliminate) power disparities. Most characters are younger in this timeline and are still learning themselves. Even Exodus, who is old af, is not the 'final boss' version you see in the comics, and he would have been been banned if the character didn't fit the theme so perfectly.
On to the relationship thing.
I am surprised at the responses. I was not expecting this to be so accepted, but I am thrilled to have been wrong about it. We will be pursuing that in Mutant Genesis and we promise to take all the care in the world to make it so the people who abuse it are caught and dealt with. No sense in eliminating a neat addition to the game because someone might try to abuse it.
We will get to it!
Okay, everyone, the address is mutantgenesismux.com and the port is 2017. Feel free to join us there, although the game will only actually open Monday or Tuesday! Join us, talk characters, etc.
Folks who asked for characters and sent pitches should have gotten their passwords. If I forgot anyone send me a message.
@seraphim73 We will run some scenes for the late night people from now on. When you have time, drop by!
I really wish you would just find something else to do with your time. If you are a troll, you have become a stale one. If this is you, I think you are unwell and you are not finding any help here. I know many of us are drawn to the obscenities you come up with like a slow mo trainwreck you just have to see unfold, but enough is enough. Rethink what you are doing, man, one way or the other.
Yes, the hobby is very much on its last legs.
Original games are rare, and from the looks of the forum, the playerbase is too tired to RP (even pre 2020). Most are too busy to start new games, or dont have the juice/setup for it.
I firmly believe that if Arx bites the dust, the hobby is over, as I don't consider 10 player games as anything but a remnant.
I dont like to be a doomsayer, but it is what it is. This hobby is entirely player driven, and the players sound tired and done with it.
@ghost Awesome! This is a tidbit from the wiki on the Brotherhood:
Brotherhood
"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." - Malcolm X
The Brotherhood follows the footsteps of Magneto in the belief that mutantkind must inherit Earth, or they might be wiped out by humanity. Their pragmatism is a response to hate and the awareness of humanity's propensity towards violence. Although many brothers are uncomfortable with the team's methods, all of them they understand someone needs to do what must be done to protect their kind. The Brotherhood is home to the disfranchised and those who will not suffer abuse, and will not tolerate it, not now or ever again.
Playing a Brother or Sister means playing a character that, although they may not be comfortable with it, believes Magneto in that humans will draw first blood. With the X-Men representing the hopeful dreamers of mutantkind, the Brotherhood looks to the future and sees there might not be room for two species on Earth. Humans are too aggressive and too uncivilized to share it, and if push comes to shove they will have to go, letting evolution do its thing. If a character believes that to be unacceptable and finds fighting violence with violence to be reprehensible, they join the X-Men.
@ghost The FC List is basically everyone save for a few bans. We have two restricted characters right now (Sabretooth and Juggernaut) which are restricted because they don't really don't give a damn about mutants to be involved, but if a player comes along and pitches us a nice idea for them that fits theme, like post-Sammy Marko, we could reconsider! So... basically anyone.
Wiki comes later tonight, probably!
@Wolfs It is meant to be simple, with a focus on your pitch for the character more than mechanics. We want to know what is your take, where you wanna take them, more than we want to know if you know whether Wolverine is faster than Cyclops or if you can copy/paste Comicvine good.
@ganymede All aboard, the more the merrier!
I've been getting lots of PMs from people, and so far we've had people express interest in the following characters, and I felt comfortable enough to let them lay claim:
X-Men: Bishop, Emma, Gambit, Iceman, Magik and Phoenix
Brotherhood: Domino, Exodus, Marvel Girl, Psylocke, Rogue, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver
Undefined so far: X-23, lots of people, all OCs.