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Post by BugHunter on Sept 6, 2003 22:57:13 GMT -5
oh, but if umbreall is surrounding the city and not letting anyone get out THE HOW THE HELL ARE WE GONNA LEAVE.and if the power is out then there is not lights and no lights means NOT BEING ABLE TO GO INTO DARK PLACES like buildings and walking on the streets basically nowhere. and don't you even say oh everyone can carry a flashlight. Well thats exactly the point - "how the hell are we gonna leave?". Hell, i see high possibility that we all end up dead, lol. (just a thought) Not all rpg's have a happy or preferrable ending. Do the rest of you guys remember what happened in our very first rpg way back during the Blizzforums days? Our base got overrun in our bug hunt and we all had to leave the planet, remember. Are we gonna have all the events happen in one night? There is gonna be sun to provide light, at least with places with windows... And dont forget that the important places we're suppost to go to have back up generators, remember? Like the lab, or the police station (just examples). Hey, maybe theres a full moon to provide some light. Oh, and dont forget about fires. And why can't we have our characters with flashlights  ? And if the situation does arrive, I'm sure we're not gonna go like "oh hey, i somehow conveniently have a flashlight right here in my pocket". We can always find stuff. And batteries do work! Well actually, you can get infected when you're alive. But you wont turn into a zombie until you die first. Remember the situation with Sheri (the little girl) in RE 2? But then you'd need the antidote. Are we gonna have to find the antidote? But anyway... Hey Will, what do you think of my ideas? And if Dan ever gets to read it - Hey Dan, what do you think of my ideas? |
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Post by Tassatul on Sept 7, 2003 12:47:55 GMT -5
Maybe (just a suggestion) we could do like a jump forward in time. Everybody gets to a position where they could basically 'do nothing' for a few days, then we say, 'a few days later. . .' Therefore, we just jump right into zombies and not being able to leave the city. And we dont have to worry about a bomb going off in the powerplant or describing the chaos of the military and terrorists, we could get to the better parts of the RPG, where its every man for himself
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Post by Cobra5 on Sept 7, 2003 12:53:50 GMT -5
Yeah, hey. We could just jump in time a little, me and Dan wake up, and the powerplant is damaged but not destroyed (So some buildings might be out, others might stilll have power) How it got damaged isn't important, and our characters wouldn't know anyway.
I don't like the idea of umbrella being forceful though. Like holding people in the city and murdering survivors. They normally work through undercover actions... and besides, they WANT people to be infected (you find out that the whole Racoon City incident was done on purpose by Umbrella, from what I understand).
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Post by DOOFY on Sept 7, 2003 14:21:47 GMT -5
well i still don't like the power plant thing, a jump in time might be good and it might not be, i have alot of ideas i wanna use for my character so lets not jump to far ahead.
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Post by BugHunter on Sept 7, 2003 14:28:38 GMT -5
But they dont want it to spread anywhere else, right? Its a "controlled" experiment  . And i was thinking that they wouldn't be killing everyone they see, they'd just be stopping everyone trying to leave without their authorization and stuff. For ex: Some survivors get up on a roof of a tall building to signal for help. The Umbrella guys across the river (or whatever body of water that surrounds the city) see them, but dont do anything about it. And they dont shoot them just because they see them either. Oh and i also had this idea that since the Umbrella corp. was really quick in this lockdown thing that some of the terrorists actually got stuck as well. And hey yea, I think that jump forward thing would be a good idea. We'd get straight to the part we created this rpg for  . My guy would be like "In two nights this town has really gone to hell. I dont even know what the heck is going on anymore. Or why wont those guys come in to help us? And I've been stuck here all by myself and stuff". And yea, my character is nobody like me, so he wouldn't know all the details about whats going on anyway either  |
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Post by Cobra5 on Sept 7, 2003 14:32:51 GMT -5
Well, if umbrella was here, that's probably what they'd be doing, I guess.
And if the powerplant was damaged, but not destroyed, we'd have the best of both worlds. Each player, as long as they are alone, could decide Wether or not the power is on or off in their area. So if yo don't like the idea of the power being out, just say it is on in your area. And if you want it off, then vice versa. See what I'm saying?
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Post by DOOFY on Sept 7, 2003 14:36:56 GMT -5
yeah i see, i'm gonna post one last time in the rpg before you jump ahead in time.
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Post by Dr. Dan on Sept 7, 2003 14:38:59 GMT -5
How about you (bug) stop trying to run the rpg? This rpg is a solo rpg, we can make whatever we want happen. If I walk into a building, there are plenty of reasons the lights might not be working, we dont have to say that the powerplant was down or anything.
Lets set down this rule: No person is allowed to state something that will drastically change everybody elses gameplay. What I mean by that is: No person is allowed to say that the city water lines broke, because then EVERY character would be unable to turn on the tap water. This is trivial, but you get the idea. No saying Powerplants down, or that they are being sniped by unbrella people (which, by the way, would never work because the government would certaintly find out about that and get EXTREMELY suspitious), or saying that this was planed by umbrella and its a controlled experiment. Nothing like that, just play...and if we COLLECTIVALLY decide to make a decision like that, then a unanimous vote must follow. Just play YOUR charcter. Ok all?
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Post by Cobra5 on Sept 7, 2003 14:41:59 GMT -5
No, not OK. This is not a solo RPG, Dan is the only one who is working alone. Everyone else is pairing/grouping up. And if we each go off and do our own thing, while it sounds good in theory, it would lead to complete chaos and each person would be playing a seperate RPG.
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Post by DOOFY on Sept 7, 2003 14:42:36 GMT -5
i agree with dan, and about the jump in time, lets only go a few hours, this way the city is somewhat infected and the unconscious could wake up.
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Post by Cobra5 on Sept 7, 2003 14:43:50 GMT -5
A little off topic, I just want to let everyone know that in the next version of the proboards server they are fixing the messed up pages problem...
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Post by Dr. Dan on Sept 7, 2003 14:44:25 GMT -5
So will, its OK to have bughunter blow up the powerplant and have the lights go out for all of us? Read the end of my post again please...I said vote...
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Post by DOOFY on Sept 7, 2003 14:45:43 GMT -5
i vote that the powerplant doesn't get messed up, and that umbrella isn't shooting people and blowing up stuff.
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Post by Cobra5 on Sept 7, 2003 14:49:34 GMT -5
So will, its OK to have bughunter blow up the powerplant and have the lights go out for all of us? Read the end of my post again please...I said vote... No, read my post. I already explained that. The powerplant will be damaged, not destroyed, and each character will have the opertunity to decide weather the lights are on or off. Isn't that what you want anyway? As for the umbrella people shooting/blowing things up, they arn't. They're simply on the scene, observing, that's all. I think that's what he's trying to get at. |
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Post by Dr. Dan on Sept 7, 2003 14:52:44 GMT -5
Yes but what I was trying to get across was the fact that no one person should make a decision that affects the rest of us drastically.
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? And if the situation does arrive, I'm sure we're not gonna go like "oh hey, i somehow conveniently have a flashlight right here in my pocket". We can always find stuff. And batteries do work!
. And i was thinking that they wouldn't be killing everyone they see, they'd just be stopping everyone trying to leave without their authorization and stuff. For ex: Some survivors get up on a roof of a tall building to signal for help. The Umbrella guys across the river (or whatever body of water that surrounds the city) see them, but dont do anything about it. And they dont shoot them just because they see them either. 
. My guy would be like "In two nights this town has really gone to hell. I dont even know what the heck is going on anymore. Or why wont those guys come in to help us? And I've been stuck here all by myself and stuff". And yea, my character is nobody like me, so he wouldn't know all the details about whats going on anyway either 
