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Casiella

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Re: You aren't godlike enough.
« Reply #105 on: 15 Jun 2012, 19:29 »
I don't even need to be in a roleplay corp to roleplay, and certainly not a full IC one. Without even counting FiS actions as RP, there are a number of avenues. BarP be damned, there's science to be done! (Or aspolosions, take your pick.)
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hellgremlin

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Re: You aren't godlike enough.
« Reply #106 on: 15 Jun 2012, 20:37 »
Quote from: Vendrin on 14 Jun 2012, 02:16
Just a note hellgremlin there are a few capsuleers who are actually happy to be transhumanists, and you should know that already. We don't show much up on the igs, but mostly cause we are just bored with it. This is what I posted last time I was there.

Herein lies the problem, G.
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Halete

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Re: You aren't godlike enough.
« Reply #107 on: 20 Jun 2012, 00:11 »
My name is Hatele and with these simple steps (at just the low price of $5 per self-help video) I'll have you RPing like a boss in no time.

Step one: find a crowd.
Step two: RP.
Step three: RP LOUDLY.
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Matariki Rain

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Re: You aren't godlike enough.
« Reply #108 on: 20 Jun 2012, 04:33 »
Quote from: Hatele on 20 Jun 2012, 00:11
My name is Hatele and with these simple steps (at just the low price of $5 per self-help video) I'll have you RPing like a boss in no time.

Step one: find a crowd.
Step two: RP.
Step three: RP LOUDLY.

I think it varies. Not so keen on crowds, myself. My best roleplay has usually involved two to six players.

A few times a year we'll do something big, with 30+ people chatting away, sub-channels for tables or rooms or whatever, and things scrolling as fast as you can read, but I prefer something where you get to chat properly with a few people.
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Morwen Lagann

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Re: You aren't godlike enough.
« Reply #109 on: 20 Jun 2012, 08:53 »
Quote from: Matariki Rain on 20 Jun 2012, 04:33
Quote from: Hatele on 20 Jun 2012, 00:11
My name is Hatele and with these simple steps (at just the low price of $5 per self-help video) I'll have you RPing like a boss in no time.

Step one: find a crowd.
Step two: RP.
Step three: RP LOUDLY.

I think it varies. Not so keen on crowds, myself. My best roleplay has usually involved two to six players.

A few times a year we'll do something big, with 30+ people chatting away, sub-channels for tables or rooms or whatever, and things scrolling as fast as you can read, but I prefer something where you get to chat properly with a few people.

I don't think Hatele was being serious, Mata. :lol:
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Re: You aren't godlike enough.
« Reply #110 on: 20 Jun 2012, 10:31 »
I dunno, given that Halete-c does just that. >_>
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Re: You aren't godlike enough.
« Reply #111 on: 20 Jun 2012, 11:04 »
Honestly, if Capsuleers were to be truly Godlike, they would just do what they do and not be bothered to talk/brag about it. Which means, no IGS posting, because honestly, they've got Empires in Space to run.

Or, you know, they'd talk through intermediaries. The true "Gods" would be so aloof as to be very nearly invisible. Not only that, but they'd have the power to smite anyone who happened to catch sight of them.

So yeah. There's only a few who would match that description. "Demigod" matches more closely. As in, not quite a God, a little better than mortals (Capsuleers really only have immortality and immense power through ships; they do still die though). Not enough power to actually change the world.

Capsuleers not godlike enough? I'd say that's quite an overstatement of the actual power wielded by Capsuleers.
Quote from: BloodBird on 15 Jun 2012, 17:37
Like all things in EVE, RP don't have to be consensual. I RP as default with some of my toons even if I speak with nearly only non-RP'ers.

Also, this.
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Re: You aren't godlike enough.
« Reply #112 on: 20 Jun 2012, 15:27 »
Hmm. Perhaps the god-power of capsuleers will be allowed greater demonstration once Dust has been out and worked on for a few years. I really want to see a planet-shattering dreadnought barrage, or the effects of a doomsday weapon targeted at a planet.

We have the power to end worlds, we just need the pixels to enact it somehow.
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Re: You aren't godlike enough.
« Reply #113 on: 20 Jun 2012, 15:48 »
Quote from: hellgremlin on 20 Jun 2012, 15:27
Hmm. Perhaps the god-power of capsuleers will be allowed greater demonstration once Dust has been out and worked on for a few years. I really want to see a planet-shattering dreadnought barrage, or the effects of a doomsday weapon targeted at a planet.

We have the power to end worlds, we just need the pixels to enact it somehow.

Actually, we don't. IIRC there is a CONCORD-made block in our Capsuleer software (game mechanic limitation :P) preventing us from even being able to target planets, let alone warp in close enough to be able to pin-point specific locations we want to fire at. I believe this is actually written somewhere from an IC-PF pow, but I can't recall where OR if it's entirely correct.

If there were not, players would have shelled every planet to hell by now. If not anyone of us, then the sub-humans folks in Goonswarm.
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Re: You aren't godlike enough.
« Reply #114 on: 20 Jun 2012, 16:08 »
Isvaan, while many things could change with time, the DUST demos actually made planetary bombardment seem rather puny.
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Re: You aren't godlike enough.
« Reply #115 on: 20 Jun 2012, 16:36 »
Quote from: Matariki Rain on 20 Jun 2012, 16:08
Isvaan, while many things could change with time, the DUST demos actually made planetary bombardment seem rather puny.

Seems like the new planetary bombardment weapons are deliberately pitiful - probably due to the requirement of getting the shot through the atmosphere. Although we've also only seen battleships shooting, not dreads.
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Re: You aren't godlike enough.
« Reply #116 on: 21 Jun 2012, 00:01 »
Oh, I was more referring to the 'lack of opportunities to RP' on the previous page than making a general statement about how one should RP. I think it's perfectly agreeable to RP in more personal groups.

Back on topic:

I have to disagree with Echo's assessment, but hey, that's personal opinion.

I think we're just more or less exploring what it means to be a Capsuleer right now - but I think the potential for immense, even godlike power is there. And who is to say that a God can't conduct themself how they like? If Hatele shows up as a swan in-character and impregnates a baseliner, that's my prerogative.
« Last Edit: 21 Jun 2012, 00:03 by Hatele »
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Re: You aren't godlike enough.
« Reply #117 on: 21 Jun 2012, 01:28 »
Quote from: Hatele on 21 Jun 2012, 00:01
I think we're just more or less exploring what it means to be a Capsuleer right now - but I think the potential for immense, even godlike power is there. And who is to say that a God can't conduct themself how they like? If Hatele shows up as a swan in-character and impregnates a baseliner, that's my prerogative.

Which reminds me...

Once upon a time one of my alliance-mates was quite keen to hunt a certain red-to-us alliance, and maybe drop a dec on it, over unpaid child support.

It took a bit of quick talking to insist that it wasn't like that, really.
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Re: You aren't godlike enough.
« Reply #118 on: 21 Jun 2012, 02:08 »
It sounds like your alliance-pal was exercising the influence and prestige that comes with being an egger wisely.
« Last Edit: 21 Jun 2012, 02:20 by Hatele »
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Matariki Rain

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Re: You aren't godlike enough.
« Reply #119 on: 21 Jun 2012, 03:30 »
Spotting a possible casus belli with an alliance she disliked, more like it. :)
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