WilsonTurner

Planetside 2 roleplay(mid-casual)

*cough*
I though the OOC was nearly done?

And thank you, Derp. I know there are plenty; I just need one at my school so I can experience this strange, foreign thing called a 'best friend,' that you can seek out for anything and always stick together through everything. I've never had anything remotely like that, since everyone abandons me at one point or another.

The Relics (No Plot/Fantasy/Character Driven/Worthy of Skepticism)

Does the 'spells' affect non-sentient beings, like animals? If you were in, say, a forest, and needed to cause a distraction, then setting that spell off would send all kinds of trouble through the area. Larger animals would attack other animals or humans on sight, simply because they'd get the dread, then turn that into fear and it'd just grow and grow.

Or does it not do that? idk. Just a thought.

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AlienBastard said
Wilson my nation idea is different enough from yours right?Since I looked at the nation sheets and noticed your civ is similar in how it situated itself.

Mine isn't necessarily all negative traits, but it is primarily defensive on the ground side, and primarily power-at-range with heavy ships, and just too-fast-to-get-hit with smaller ships. Less focused on armor, more on speed.

Essentially a we'll-hold-till-air-support-comes-then-hold-some-more.

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Why does everybody double or triple post? If my screen goes white, then I just hit the little bookmark that I have for the subscriptions, and I just go back to the page. Or, I just click the address bar and hit enter.

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Mantido said
I believe it does matter. Technological development is a logical process, not a piecemeal collection of random advancements. Don't just slap some magical flintlock revolver rifles into your army because you think it's cool. There are people here who just don't seem to know how this kind of firearms technology worked, and that's not a statement against them--it just means someone should clarify so that things make sense and it's not some weird alternate universe of helicopters or whatever alongside muskets. Armored airships means that one of the first things to be developed in warfare would be a way to reliably pierce that armor repeatedly from long distances, unless you want every battle with airships to just be an aerial Battle of Hampton Roads where we just ping useless munitions off each other, or throw heavy rocks instead of dropping bombs. This is why one of the first things they did in aerial combat was to stick machine guns and autocannons on planes. The same goes for ship-based combat, where most ships were armed with autocannons rather than any giant guns. They're an easy and effective countermeasure, and logically they'd be one of the first things developed for that purpose.

Also, more efficient use of hydrogen to keep airships aloft would be a prime research area. The first big airships would be very large, and easy to hit, not being able to really sport any armor. Then they'll get smaller and more efficient, keeping or even gaining firepower and armor, while losing size. If the world has had airships for quite some time, as the traits and the like suggest, then I would think that, in the current time period, there would be a variety of ships, with a variety of options for lift. I wouldn't go so far as to say they have helicopters and the like, but planes would've undoubtedly been, at the very least, thought of and maybe sketched, while at the most, experimental types had been made. This is a world that has significant focus on air power; planes to take down airships would be quite valuable, especially since some nations have powerful dreadnaughts in their fleets.

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Cool, thanks.

Now I know when to hope for the BAR
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darkwolf687 said
Even by the very late 1870's proposals some people are making, the M1 grand isn't in, I don't believeAnd yeah, we should wait for Gowia, considering he wrote the traits and one says "Musket misfires" while we also have metal airships and stuff. He needs to set the tech level

Ok, good, so we're not that far. We've got muskets as the norm, and rifles as the increasingly-norm, with giant metal airships but not metal boats, we've got heavy guns [since a flying dreadnaught, I assume, will have heavy artillery pieces], but not any kind of rapid-fire weapon.

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I think the Gm/Co-Gm need to start talking, setting out what is and isn't invented, what can be quickly and what will take time, etc. etc., since there's this big debate.

Also, would a weapon LIKE the M1 Garand/originalname be in the near, or distant, future of the roleplay?

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Duck, I've edited out the grass from my app, and removed the population part. Anything else I should change/edit?

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True
Just looked up the time period; had my internal historical timeline skewed; had WWI about 30 or 40 years too far behind.