Foster

How do you like your Mechs?

If we're talking exclusively about single-seat mechs, I tend to err to the side of them being more to facilitate more mobility and lethality to the average infantry-squad. Kinda like a rather potent power-armor while still being a bit of a squishy glass-cannon in the grander scheme of things.

As for controls, really it'd depend on what iterative generation of mechs it is (or if it was the budget/militia/pirate model).

And of course, all the tech making mechs viable ends up also going to the conventional heavy-hitters, hetzers gonna hetz when you don't need no stinking micro-fusion core invented by General Motors in the 90s.

By the time you've got power-armors with Spartan-IIs/Ultramarines inside them, you've still got enemies that can throw them and/or doomguy around like a ragdoll. That said, having just one show up is often enough to turn the tide of a firefight decisively in your favor, let alone a whole dropship/drop-pod full of them just steamrolling through the enemy formation like an avalanche.

The other approach is mech-hunters, ofc. Because everybody likes a story about slaying the latest technological dragon of the battlefield.

Greetings, RPG!

Between 15 years for the nation-RP, to 1 years ago for the American-Jedi /w/ [@Silent Showers]. To be fair I haven't posted all that much this year. Interest in such things is kinda somewhat consistent around here.

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"Adept-Cadets are expected to review and put in bids on the first of their Adept Guard so that they may begin to form their team and start training which will be starting in a week's time. I have forwarded this year's adept guard candidates to your data-pad."

.... "Fuck."

Looks like he wouldn't be living alone for very long. So, he spent the next day and a half picking through hundreds of profiles while trying to make heads and tails of all the information they were giving to him. It all felt so sudden, almost forced, the way they were forcing him to commit despite having essentially zero knowledge of how anything was supposed to work. Were they putting him on the back-foot on purpose? They didn't even let him leave the suite, instead making regular meal deliveries three times a day seeing as he had everything else he'd need in the room.

"Ugh, Alexa, just put in my bids on the top five candidates on the list and keep going down until someone accepts."

The AI seemed to pause for once before replying. "Please confirm you wish for me to take this action."

John frowned. "Confirmed."

"Order and permission have been logged for official reference. Submitting bids."

Weird, wonder what that was about...

"Please note, whoever accepts the bid will be moving into your suite once they've accepted the request to join your team."

"THEY WHAT?"

[@Silent Showers]

Meanwhile in the mess-hall for the mundane, Felix was busy eating her typical stewed-ration when her datapad that that of several others chirped to life. A quick glance indicated one of the new adepts had made a bid for them, all at the same time. However, as she swiped to accept, the bid vanished. The meaning of this was clear, they only wanted the absolute best guarding them. She calmly finished her meal, acting as though nothing happened while the rest of the mess-hall descended into chaos as everyone was trying to see who made the cut, or to challenge them for their place. She left just as she heard a tray slam into a wall and the noise of breaking furniture. In the distance she could hear station-security rushing to the scene to calm the situation.

Well, there is one problem with recruiting good soldiers to guard you.

Good soldiers, follow orders.

But don't worry, they mundies just numbers to the adepts.

@Foster

Greetings, RPG!

Anyways... one of the more fun interactions in the sci-fi nation RPs I had was one person willingly portraying something like Tau Spacemarines/techpriests with a universal translator that replaced all proper-nouns with fish-sticks and fish-stick accessories. Halibut.

I took more of the Billy-Bob Space-Trucker route of using stuff like the USS Discovery from 2001 as a heavy cruiser in a universe where starfighters were a viable thing. A little behind everybody's tech-curve but we were really good at throwing rocks. It didn't take long before they found out we could just as easily throw space-marines directly at our problems. Cue the other factions start thinking we're some sort of Jedi.

Then there was an RP about space-wizards with mech piloting monster-girl bodygaurds. Basically America-Wizard in space for how unhinged the premise was as it evolved into a legally distinct offshoot of the Clone Wars.

Greetings, RPG!

@Foster Yoo what, I've never heard of that theory! where can I learn about it? I'm intrigued

@Imperial Fox

Old theory. Predates actually seeing how he survived Order 66. But it was sorta an explanation on how he was seemingly clairvoyant and had a weirdly disjointed word-order. Aside from the more mundane possibilities. Basically he had to fight every urge to say "told you so" in the council-chambers.

The other of course was if Jar-Jar was a sith lord.

Kinda funny how Clone-Wars softly borrowed choreography from Starship Troopers (that or was softly giving a nod in their direction).

But then again: "I said put your hand on that wall!" had to get its inspiration from somewhere.
-My next-door neighbor pointed out that when he was put on the transport-plane to be dropped off behind enemy lines without a parachute into razorgrass up to his head was when he realized just how expendable he was. 32-128th Reg.

Greetings, RPG!

@Imperial Fox Yeah, us old-fart got the Merlin-timeline, knowing how his story ended the entire time. Although to be fair, I'm pretty sure it's hinted that the perception of time gets a lil funky with the force-sensitives like Yoda. Fan theory is if Yoda/Grogu is in mortal danger they basically time-travel/teleport and can basically be the same person living in an inverse time-loop.

Otoh, we also had the 90s. Some of it has held-up better than others.

Greetings, RPG!

Ah, the generation that had a 50/50 chance of seeing the Star-Wars movies starting from episode I and working up through the original trilogy after finishing clone-wars.

"We've been expecting you." ~ Anakin, Episode V.

NSFW RP Noob! Help pls!

Unpopular advice:

If you're new to roleplaying, maybe start with non-lewd RPs to get a feel for what sort of story you're interested in? Plus the feedback from a small-group will likely be more varied and well-rounded while feedback from 1-on-1 interactions tend to be a bit more niche to the individual.

But I'm sure we all appreciate the energy.

Hi !!

O_O you're a child asking for crazy old men to come fornicate over you..

There are better sites for that but uh

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@Moonberry

Well, to their credit they appear to know what they want.

Problem is when I was 18-20 my interests can be best summed up as a particular stack of memes:

Send dudes.

You mean nu--

DUDES. We're taking the hobbits to Isengard.

Your guess is as good as mine as to who had more fun as a teenager. But I do know that I was playing towards my strengths at the time.

Call it a little pragmatic, but those sorts of RPs hit the same feelings differently.

Ban the User Above You

banned because I thought your profile picture was Adam Smasher?

@iibread

banned by two grakatas.

Ban the User Above You

Banned for letting the nurgling win.