[OOC] Thunderbolt Black (Fighter Pilot Mercenaries)

[urukhai]

ill try and have a post up soon

[Rhona W]

Sorry folks, but I think I'm going to shut this one down. At the moment I'm finding myself with far less free time to pursue hobbies other than RP, and even with once-a-week posts by me, this is still too much of a draw on the time I do have. Not mention, I've kind of lost my motivation for it for various reasons I'm not going to go into. Having a bunch of people drop out right at the beginning after the int-check, and then more of the core cast shortly after that certainly didn't help - although, I don't particularly blame anyone for it; RL always takes priority, and that's as it should be. It can kill a game more easily than anything though, especially as far as motivation is concerned.

Sorry if you're all disappointed, but I really just want more time to do other things at the moment. I'll be sticking with GEARs as the only RP I'm running right now, and probably the only one I'll participate in for the meantime also.
If you want to start another RP like this yourselves, you're more than welcome to do so. However, I would please ask that you don't use this setting and my ideas, as I'd like to keep them around in case I wish to run TB another time.

[Foster]

*places RP on hold until Mage gets backsies*

Uru can probs still post, though.

Mind if I pitch an idea for a multi-national WW1 Outpost type RP?
-RL example: Ukraine & Siberia, 1917. Read the transcripts.

[The Mage]

@Silverwind Blade

Right when I was changing my mind

Well......

I hope whatever your situation is gets better.

I do really like this roleplay, hell I'd say that if you even Restarted it many times I'd join back every time. I have a weird craving for Aerial threads lately..... and Warfare threads in general.

Well, atleast I can relax and start work on my own thread I've had floating around in my head for a while.

also, @Foster my only question would be how you'd get that to work. to me, it seems almost all roleplays where you play BotG it dies. That's one thing I'm worried about for my own thread....

[Rhona W]

Like I said, sorry if it's disappointing to anyone, but right now I just have other stuff I want to do more, and this is the easiest thing to drop at the moment. Plus my mojo ain't workin' for it right now either. So, I'm going to retire it for the moment, and then if things change another time I'll re-start it from scratch.

Thanks again for playing so far, and hope you enjoy your other games in the meantime. Bye for now, boys and girls!

[Foster]

also, @Foster my only question would be how you'd get that to work. to me, it seems almost all roleplays where you play BotG it dies. That's one thing I'm worried about for my own thread....

@The Mage

(hoping that means "boots on the ground")

That's a very recent trend, I assure you.
-However, most RPs I've tried to solo-GM (regardless of story) have died.

I've been trying to find some good dedicated co-GMs that know the general history, lore, and those random bits of info (like at the very least seen an Mle RSC 1917 field stripped and compared to an M1 Garand, and view WW1 era automatics in context* rather than for use as flavor-weapon for Call of Duty style "high-speed low-drag" yolo-fests).

*Context being, the French automatics were made by illiterate 16 year old girls since 75% of the male French population was sitting in the trenches. In short, they had to be so simple, you could field-strip it, look at the parts, and say to yourself: "Shit, I could build this fucker on a good weekend." Same reason why the French elected to use strip-fed MGs rather than belts, it took about 3 seconds to stamp enough ammo-strips to hold a full can of ammo... time spent sewing a fabric belt for a Vickers or assembling a lewis-pan's spring-assemblies...

And someone who can find a reason why discussion on French armaments is *not* a tangent upon a tangent when discussing an RP to be set in Russia.

[The Mage]

<Snipped quote by The Mage>
(hoping that means "boots on the ground")

That's a very recent trend, I assure you.
-However, most RPs I've tried to solo-GM (regardless of story) have died.

I've been trying to find some good dedicated co-GMs that know the general history, lore, and those random bits of info (like at the very least seen an Mle RSC 1917 field stripped and compared to an M1 Garand, and view WW1 era automatics in context* rather than for use as flavor-weapon for Call of Duty style "high-speed low-drag" yolo-fests).

*Context being, the French automatics were made by illiterate 16 year old girls since 75% of the male French population was sitting in the trenches. In short, they had to be so simple, you could field-strip it, look at the parts, and say to yourself: "Shit, I could build this fucker on a good weekend." Same reason why the French elected to use strip-fed MGs rather than belts, it took about 3 seconds to stamp enough ammo-strips to hold a full can of ammo... time spent sewing a fabric belt for a Vickers or assembling a lewis-pan's spring-assemblies...

And someone who can find a reason why discussion on French armaments is *not* a tangent upon a tangent when discussing an RP to be set in Russia.

@Foster

Yes, it means Boots on the Ground

yeah, it's the hardest to find good Dedicated Co-GMs. and I do like me fix of War History, but I don't go that in-depth. So I wouldn't be able to help you there xD

It's also the hardest when making your own independent, Sci-Fi esque roleplays as everyone wants the action to be fast.

Since you seem really good at remembering this, I should have you help me xD

also, it's fine Silver. Sometimes you just want to focus on other things :3

Unless your like that one guy whom made a roleplay and quit mid-first mission and then did it again when he remade it.

then it's not fine

[Foster]

There is one RP I 'officially' finished all the way to the bitter end.

Gentlemen, welcome to Dubai.

http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/80746-to-end-all-wars-ww1-zombie-outbreak/ooc

Thread up

[Rhona W]

also, it's fine Silver. Sometimes you just want to focus on other things :3

Unless your like that one guy whom made a roleplay and quit mid-first mission and then did it again when he remade it.

then it's not fine

No, I actively try to avoid doing that unless there's no other options. If you take a look at GEARs, linked in my sig, it's been running for well over a year. And the version on the previous Guild before it exploded had been running for longer than that, in one form or another. It only ever stopped before due to people repeatedly dropping out at key points.