Pepperm1nts

Nemesis: Star Wars meets Hunt for Red October

<Snipped quote by Pepperm1nts>You seem to be difficult to please.
My current concept is actually a "strike frigate" centered around the spinal gun(s) and providing area denial with the rest of its equipment.

@Willy Vereb

That's pretty much what mine is. It's basically an experimental space submarine, with its primary armament being the spinal gun. It stays undetected and strikes hard. If it is spotted and gets into a battle, it uses other weaponry such as rocket pods. My ship is set apart from the rest because of it and I would really prefer if you'd just find something else to make yours unique. I don't want us to have what are practically the same kind of ship.

As for the spinal guns being common in Sci-Fi - yeah, they are. But not in this RP. Here, humanity is still new to space combat. In my sheet, I mention the concept of spinal guns was developed near the end of the Vorqhul war when humanity was looking desperately to find a weapon that could pierce Vorqhul ships. So they are actually not common, and my class of ships is probably the only one with spinal guns.

Nemesis: Star Wars meets Hunt for Red October

I have seen too many RPs die because people argued over unnecessary details, or spent eons writing huge sheets that go into irrelevant information that they're never going to even talk about IC. What matters is telling a good story in IC. Spending too much time doing anything else just bogs RPs down and eventually kills them, sometimes before they even take off.

As for the gun thing - If I am completely honest, the gun thing is what bothers me the most. That, I think, was the thing that made my ship unique from the others. Not to mention that (combined with the stealth drive) it's what makes it like a submarine, which is another thing that set it apart from the rest.

Nemesis: Star Wars meets Hunt for Red October

I don't really care about the specifics. Getting into the gritty details of tech just bogs down RPs. The point is that it has a very advanced Vorqhul stealth drive.

Now, I don't mind interchanging ideas. I took the idea of a Vorqhul stealth drive from Flagg, after all. (Well, I was going with an experimental stealth ship, so I figured I needed the best of the best, and he had already introduced the concept). My main issue is the ship-sized gun and the whole submarine thing, just because it's a bit too much of a similarity. It makes my ship obsolete. If all your ship had was the stealth drive, I'd be fine. But the stealth drive, on top of the ship-sized gun, PLUS the experimental, submarine role is just too much. It makes our ships practially the same.

Nemesis: Star Wars meets Hunt for Red October

Every time I've poked my head into an RP you're in, you are arguing about technology with the GM or other players. It's very exhausting to watch two people spit pseudo-science at each other for several pages.

EDIT: Which, now that I think about it, is starting to happen here. So I'll stop.

Nemesis: Star Wars meets Hunt for Red October

I wrote all of those things I pointed out down days ago, you just didn't read them. Or you did and didn't care about doing exactly the same thing.

I predated your idea by over a year dude. If anything I could assume the same.

I am not claiming some kind of copyright over the idea of stealth ships and/or ship-sized guns. Neither of us created those concepts. But in this RP, I was the first to include the latter. The Vorqhul stealth drive idea was Flagg's, but at least his ship and mine are very different, with the stealth drive being the only similarity. My problem is that you came into the RP and, intentionally or not, ripped pretty much every single thing that makes my ship unique.

As for your suggestion that maybe I stole your idea - No. I don't read your posts. Not because I haven't come across them, but because I avoid them and any RP they're in.

EDIT: Oh you freshed up your profile?
When I copy-pasted my ship here it only had a few bullet points for info.

Holy shit, this is a straight-up lie.

My last edit to that post was a few days ago. You only posted your sheet today. And the relevant information was part of my post before my last edit.

Nemesis: Star Wars meets Hunt for Red October

vaguely similar

>Both ships are experimental stealth ships

>Both ships have a main gun that runs the length of the ship

>And now you're saying your ship operates like a submarine, which is exactly what I said about my ship

I don't want to say you intentionally copied anything, but the similarities are not "vague."

Nemesis: Star Wars meets Hunt for Red October

I don't like how your ship is so similar to mine, not gonna lie. It's mostly my fault for not finishing up a sheet quicker, but it still bothers me that my ship isn't nearly as unique anymore. Both use experimental stealth technology, and both have a gun that runs the length of the ship as the primary armament. I was hoping to have some variety with ships, and mine was supposed to cover the stealth, huge-gun role.

Nemesis: Star Wars meets Hunt for Red October

You can probably make changes to your sheet, just be sure to let Gorgenmast know.

I was talking to Gorgenmast and we seemed to have agreed that your cruiser is pretty small. I think he said 600 meters long or so should be the max for cruisers, and yours is nowhere near that.

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Nemesis: Star Wars meets Hunt for Red October

>implying you'll participate in the overarching story