Some RP Ideas

[ebonyviper]

Here are some RP ideas that I've come up with:

1. Western
2. Boat/Ship
3. Space Opera
4. On the Racetrack
5. At War
6. Magic and Demons
7. Stranded on an Island

If anyone's interested, I will explain more on a new thread.

[Insane Pirate Dragon]

Some of these aren't that bad and might be able to have an RP that won't die out so easily.

But I don't know much everyone knows about boats, but I don't know that much about them.

The Space Opera confuses me a little.

[elizar]

It is hard for me to see myself joining some of these. Strangely enough if the Racetrack is going to be a remake of the TT, I can maybe see myself joining, but with more refined character. Dumping Joltsen for good.

Magic and Demons. I can bring the evilest version of Egill to that, though he is that powerful that only something very interesting catches his attention, or I can have a plot attack and see what he does. So it could be possible for me to have the reoccurring villain in this. I will though need to work on his weaknesses.

Space Opera... That is going to be out of the questions for me if there are cars in it, sorry. And same goes for if there is magic. The only reason why I liked B5 even for Psi-cops is because they had so much more to fawn over.

Now, I need a nap, I had a dentist appointment, can't really eat or do anything lest my mouth be blood fountain.

[ebonyviper]

I know some RPers who can play boats and ships well so they might be interested in a Boat/Ship RP.

Space Opera is basically an adventure in space where explorers discover all sorts of things about the planets, stars, and galaxies. It could be humanbased... or maybe it could be that the cars send humans out into space because they can't go out themselves. They want to see if they could benefit from what the humans discover or something like that.

The Racetrack might be a remake of Time Track, but maybe with a different storyline. Or it could be like that European Rally RP that I think either Lizkay or Suzidragonlady started last year. A different setting could probably help.

Magic and Demons RP could be made into a tournament of magic-users where demons might try to sabotage events or something and the some of the participants could possibly be willing to stop the demons.

This is what I came up with.

[Insane Pirate Dragon]

A change of view might help with a new race one.

But the magic one is sounding that it might work. A lot have users.

[ebonyviper]

The race one could be like a cross-country rally where participants of any make or model could join, but I'm rather unsure which one of my characters could possibly be in that. I'm thinking Ebony, but I don't know.

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And there are a few people here who have users and some have demons (like Tracker89 does). I know that I have a few users in my repertoire.

We would have to plan out events for the magic tournament, though.

[Evangeline]

The space opera thing sounds interesting. There could be humans, adapted aircraft and small specialist vehicles (such as forklifts). Fuel-dependent cars would be severely limited in space because they are not so well-equipped to deal with that environment, especially freefall conditions, and the long-term functioning of their systems is much more dependent on gravity, in addition to their great mass which is so much more to lift from the gravity well. They could manage in large space stations/habitats with their own centrifugal force, but the only time they could move around on a spaceship (prior to the invention of artificial gravity systems) is when the spaceship is under acceleration or rotation.


The race sounds promising as well, as long as it's not too much like Track Time. Maybe an around-the-world race or some other circuit?

[ebonyviper]

So the space opera one could be doable if a suitable plotline is found for it.

And as for the race one, I don't think it should be similiar to Track Time either. I was thinking of having it supposedly in Europe, maybe in France or Germany. Although, the Around-the-World idea does sound interesting.

[elizar]

Eva's version of Space Opera is what I would go with. Whole new slew of characters, and we can let it be in SA-verse.

Did ya know the first time around I felt forced to create user because it appeared that everyone and their dog was a user in the RPs.

What if there is a race just involved about going from point A to B, and then you got to choose the road, and the roads are legal roads. So you also got general traffic and rules. If in Germany, it would be requirement to go the Autobahn.

[ebonyviper]

Would be a good idea to put the Space Opera in SA-verse. That's what I had been thinking, too. (been reading the SA archives)

And yeah, I kinda felt that pressure too way back when the original Main Cars RP was still active. That's how Tempest came about.

And general road rules would be less restrictive.

I'm hoping that this might open up more possibilities for more players.

[Evangeline]

The "race" would be more like a rally then, with separate legs and an optimum completion time for each. They would have to respect local traffic and traffic laws. Each time might also have spotters, especially helicopters and small planes, to go on ahead and alert them of upcoming complications or obstacles and pick out alternate routes. There would also be support staff, publicity people and other assorted hangers-on.

As for the spaceship idea, I was thinking of a first-generation insterstellar craft with a Bussard ramjet OR an Orion-style nuclear propulsion system which works like this: You have a store of what amount to nuclear fission bombs, which go down a chute to the end of the ship, and detonate within a massive hemisphere-shaped shield. The blast is contained so that the force is directed back. To quote Larry Niven, that sucker is going to MOVE. There is also a system of laser propulsion that is promising - ship lifts off on a beam of light. The crew would be working and going into coldsleep or some other form of suspended animation in turns, and they have been cruising through space at sub-light speeds for a while, maybe for a generation's span or more. To what purpose? Maybe they have located a star which would be good for an orbital habitat, after every good spot in the solar system has been taken. Future interstellar expeditions will require additional "stepping stones" to go further out, and this is what they're doing.

[elizar]

I am slightly more in favor for FTL. I kind of dislike the real options, since it takes about 40-50 years to get to Alpha Centauri for Orion class, and even longer with ramjets. They are though faster and more conventional than current space travel engines.

I did create a FTL method for one sci-fi that I wrote long time ago, which actually fits okay with SA, since it is kind of similar to what Julian does. I wish I kept my calculations about it however... I had put down on paper some calculations regards of how fast the FTL was. It took about 20 years to go from one end of the galaxy to the next. All I can remember is that the calculations included the number phi (1.618---). Not to be confused with pi. Yes, I like math. Feel free to ignore this.

Maybe this rally can also have some mini-events between places. Like dirt track time racing like the real rally. You don't pass anyone there, it is just about making the best time.

[Evangeline]

The FTL idea also sounds good. It's just a matter of maintaining the plausibility factor.

[ebonyviper]

The anime, Outlaw Star, maintains the FTL plausibility real good. IMHO, I would go with that, but that's just me. I don't want to get too technical, though, or I'd lose interest.

Crash course of Outlaw Star for anyone who doesn't know.

[elizar]

The FTL was simply that they did use ramjets, but they had also different kind of engines that also required nuclear power because of what they did. Punch a hole in the universe and close it. With that hole, they traveled to another 'verse, which was much older, dead of anything including black holes, and was collapsing. The process would take long time, but because it was much smaller, traveling few meters there meant traveling I don't know how many kilometers. Though my old calculations, now forever lost, measured things in lightyears. The plausibility factor is there in the SA, because of Julian and the Amber 'verse.