I was thinking, after the bank heist, perhaps we could start running multiple heists at once from time to time? I.e. smaller jobs, smaller teams. I did that sort of thing in a special forces RP I ran a couple years back, it let characters interact with others a lot better, since they were in a smaller group. It'd be something like: Werner, Juan, and James rob a tech firm, while Mike, Jim, Charlotte and Angelo take on an armored car. Obviously not every time -- I'm interested to see the dynamic that develops from the bank heist, with all members aboard -- but maybe once in a while to shake things up. What do you guys think?
I like this! Something to keep our characters afloat between jobs, and more importantly, keep the RP rolling. As a branch-off of this, I'd like to see the group separated into two squads during later, larger jobs as well. Divide and conquer!
Right. Since you are full you should set it to full. Also what I have found with heist rps is that no matter what you say... You and your freind will always be able to shoot all the police and take minor damge. It goes from realistic rp to anime bullet dodger. I also know that when a normal player describes the police they make them make mistakes. I would recomend having a charecter who will control the police or enamys. Well fairwell people who I have just opened a converstaion with!
I'm pretty confident in everyone's ability to take this RP as seriously as possible while still having fun, so I highly doubt we're going to be "bullet dodging." What you said can really apply for any RP with a significant NPC force really, and I don't think all RPs on this site spiral into power-playing chaos. Also, three words. Suspension of disbelief. Of course, our characters aren't going to take hits constantly or be killed, they're the main characters and they're part of a story which we're telling. I don't think Star Wars would be as great of a story if Hans, Chewbacca, and Luke were all gunned down by stormtroopers after the first encounter. And yeah, we'll probably have the police make mistakes, since they are, you know, human beings in a stressful situation, just like our characters (also prone to mistakes). I doubt we'll have our crew making any massive fuck-ups the first job, but down the line it could be interesting. Point is, this is an RP, not a reality simulator. In the real world, our team would be arrested/killed during or after the first heist they pull. But hey, fiction is fun.