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Gameranger's right over at gameranger.com. Small download comparatively, there shouldn't be too much ya need to do by ways of setting up.

Alright folks. I come with an idea which may go somewhere... or it will simply die off the bat. Eh. Either way, I figured I might as well try it. So before I bore you with this semi-disclaimer...

Battletech. That's the big concept at the moment. Time period would be anything ranging from the clan invasion to WoB, which might not mean anything to folks here, which at this stage is OK. I intend to make it so folks who have no idea what battletech is can join. Technology would be somewhere in the periods above, plot and the like are presently undefined, which is the purpose of this post. Consider it a pre-interest check, where I'm looking for a small crew to help give direction as to where to go with this and bounce ideas. I have two candidates in mind, just posting this thread to see if there's anyone else battletech minded who wants to help. The catch: we use a video game. Mechwarrior 4 Mektek, to be exact (I have a working download I can give to folks, 1.6 GB, extraction file). Again, if that meant nothing to you on the tech side but you think the concept of using a freeware video game is interesting, and you don't mind dated graphics, feel free to get involved.

Right now I'm looking for folks to bounce around concepts with, so without further ado, leave a message here and I'll include you as part of a group PM to make this something.

Few notes:
-Instead of using a tabletop stat system I am proposing using any action-related content in video game form. Said format allows us to use mechs, battle suits and if necessary infantry for RP'ers and a wide variety of maps. Right now I'm thinking we could roleplay all the context around potential missions on-forum, go to the dropship, last posts are for dropping and the arrangements to meet would come in OOC. This obviously takes some timezone coordination. My flexibility isn't that great, so I feel those who are in the same boat. Doesn't mean we can't try, eh?
-Skill in that particular game or any video game doesn't matter much to me if you find it interesting and are willing to try it. Worst comes to worst we can do a school-esque beginning to RP some training...
-I'd like to get around 4 other people from this post @Shorticus? @boomlover?) and set up a group PM to make this a thing. We can expand into a group RP with a second stage of interest check or just do a small group and arrange between us. All that in the PM.
-Downloading stuff will almost certainly be a requirement unless you somehow have both Gameranger and Mektek Mw4 Mercs. All I can really do is promise that neither download hurts your computer, nor are they too big (though MW4 is ultimately a full blown game... it's not too massive). Unless someone has a dedicated server we can use without needing GR?
-Post/character quality I would say high casual, post length base probably something from an average casual section roleplay which I would pin at being either 1-2 solid chunk sized paragraphs or 3-4 smaller ones. If you fall a little below don't worry much, if you're above don't be put off by the lower standards :P In-game we can work something out, oneliners would probably be the norm for talking unless we all figure out a teamspeak (which I couldn't actually speak on, sorry).

Yep, that's about it. Thanks for murdering the spambots @Mahz.

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@ArenaSnow So you want us to play a video game together. I can get behind that. Especially after the other RP didn't work out :P

Yep. Video game, roleplay on forum and ingame, be cool, etc. Or whatever we can come up with :P

@ArenaSnow Count me in!

Right. Now just need 3 more, possibly including the two I *hint* poked...

@ArenaSnow eh fuck it lets try it. @6slyboy6 again?

Alright, I'll throw another mention to @Shorticus and see if we can't pick up one more person.

Yes, this is very weird when it comes to concepts here on RPG. But we can try and see what happens. Worst comes to worst we can revert to text for anything combat related :P

One note for future reference (which I learned the hard way myself): The @mention function doesn't work in the opening post. You need to make a second post with all the @mentions you need there.

Like I said before, TOTALLY interested. 100% interested. I need a few more weeks before I can try something this ambitious, note; my final exams are all hitting in the next 2 weeks, so I'll be done with this semester soon.

@ArenaSnow Kind of the same with @Shorticus here. Exams yo. i will be in available for the upcoming two weeks.

Alright, so i'll give it a couple days before opening the PM and after that we can take discussion casual from there?

@ArenaSnow go for it fraulein.

@ArenaSnow I have no clue what battletech is, but the idea of combining a video-game with rping sounds very interesting. You already seem to have your group together, but count me in for it!

Good, good. I think we can get the ball rolling, eh?

Slowly, of course. No rush ^.^

@ArenaSnow I'm actually pretty interested but know nothing about Battletech besides this:



How much would I need to know about the video game and things like Gameranger & Mechwarrior 4? Would I need a decent online connection?

I've no idea what battletech is btw XD

@ArenaSnow I'm actually pretty interested but know nothing about Battletech besides this:



How much would I need to know about the video game and things like Gameranger & Mechwarrior 4? Would I need a decent online connection?

Those urbies... ^.^

Anyways, good questions. I'll start with a little on battletech:

Not going to lie, there's tons and tons of lore made on it since the 80's in many forms and more than what is covered on the ultra-massive Sarna website. That said, I intend to have this set up to be semi-fit to the universe... so same context, mechs, etc, but conventions and the like of MW4 and playing it loose on the lore. So in short, don't worry much about that element.

Video game wise the expertise you need is to be able to open files, press a few buttons to make lumbering machines move around and be able to shoot at big objects. That's pretty much it you need on gameplay knowledge and I'm 100% willing to work with ya for practice to get the gist of the game. If we need to we can always make the roleplay start off in the context of training or recruit pilots. Gameranger is pretty simple; install, possibly filter games so you don't have to drag the scrollbar all the way to the approximate middle of the game list, double click on the name (we can get into what that will be later) and it's pretty simple from there.

Online connection does not have to be great by any means, mine is rather meh. It's not a game and GR isn't a service that suffers from issues connection wise. If your internet is pretty bad we can work around it, the biggest concession I can see us making is trying to cut down mech speeds to reduce rubberbanding, which shouldn't be much of an issue in the first place.

Oh sweet mary joseph, why would we ever use game ranger? Evolve, hamachi, tunngle are all there, but you chose the one that doesnt work on my PC T_T

@ArenaSnowI am so very, Very, VERY interested! 100% on board. I've wanted to do a battletech RP for a while, but this method never really occured to me. If you wanted, I could gather some screen capture software for everyone, so we could post video footage of the battles here?

@Lord CoakeOMFG YES WE SHOULF ALL USE RAPTR, AND MAKE A 2ND GEN RP WITH SCREEN CAPTURING!

jesus christ you guys mught have to hand hold me through this.