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Open-World Ship RP

Well, the plot should work no matter what you decide to do, whether it's piracy, merchant work, mercenary work, etc. I was hoping to have everyone discuss what is to be done as far as the kind of crew we are, but if a decision isn't made by the OOC stage, it'll most likely be piracy since this stemmed from a disagreement on how a space pirate RP was built.

Open-World Ship RP

Five months from now, and it will last two months. I'll be in basic training.

Open-World Ship RP

If you're up to it, I usually appoint a co-GM to keep things up when I'm unavailable. I have a pretty long absence coming up soon here, in about five months.

Open-World Ship RP

So I recently tried to join up in a space piracy RP, but the GM was building it in a way I disagreed with. In this setting, firearms will be discontinued entirely, with magnetic weaponry being the primary form of armaments with experimental laser weaponry in existence. Ship armaments will mainly be railguns, with a few Gauss railguns in existence (but not on our ship). I will have control of the captain, but they will never be seen, so whoever is elected as the captain's messenger will be able to make decisions as if they were playing the captain. The reason for this is because I have a side plot in mind to drive the sandbox actions and to keep things interesting. The plot involves discovering how physics works in this setting, so I'll have to hold that info back for now.

As for what the purpose of the ship is, that's up to you guys. Anything goes, really, just as long as it's something fun and interesting to wander around as.

Any takers?

Space Pirate RP? or not?

Freeshooter92 said
Holodeck, Replicator, Shatner's acting.

Holodeck is actually possible. It's not that different from today's virtual reality, just applied to an entire room rather than goggles.

I still don't see how there's extreme stress on a Gauss gun, or how it can possibly be expensive to make. That full-auto rifle I showed you probably only cost around 20 to 30 bucks to make, and most of that price is the metal. Electronics are dirt cheap even today, and they'll only get cheaper and better. If you're not gonna be realistic about this and go for futuristic fantasy instead of science fiction, I'm out. I was wanting science fiction, not fantasy.

Space Pirate RP? or not?

Silver, I'm not arguing for laser weaponry. I'm arguing for magnetic weaponry (meaning coilguns and railguns). Those projectile weapons in Red Dwarf were most likely magnetic in nature.

Draco's pretty much summed up what I'm arguing here. If you're going to do a custom SciFi RP, you have to consider the science as well as the fiction. There's a big difference between science fiction and futuristic fantasy. Star Trek is science fiction, while Star Wars is futuristic fantasy. There's actual hard science backing up Star Trek and virtually none backing up Star Wars.

So please consider the science. Do you really, really think that the Browning M2, to use your example, would really continue being used centuries, or even decades, from now when it's barely used today?

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Space Pirate RP? or not?

I just fail to see how Gauss tech was considered a deadend, yet railgun tech wasn't. The two are extremely similar in nature. The only real difference is made obvious by the names: railguns use rails, and coilguns use coils. The coils allow a Gauss gun to become far smaller than a railgun, which requires a pretty long barrel. Railguns are usually ship-to-ship weapons, while Gauss guns are typically for close-quarters combat between people.

I assume our ship will be mounted with railguns from the start, since modern cannons as we know them will be totally ineffective in a vacuum.

Space Pirate RP? or not?

...Dude. That's not plausible at all. You don't seem to realize that in most SciFi, Gauss guns and railguns totally replace firearms. That's why projectile weapons are not affected by polarized hull, due to the fact that coilguns and railguns fire polarized projectiles by their very nature. I was kinda willing to ignore the fact that you said a weapon that's a relic even by modern standards is still used here, but this is getting a little ridiculous, to say that a weapon that's only getting cheaper to make and more practical as time goes on just suddenly stops being produced entirely.

If you already have everything laid out, why would you even ask for player input and say you haven't developed anything yet?

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But fresh meat is what you are.