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Speaking of sheet, post it here. And as for your size, I'd really appreciate it if you would decrease the size of your nation, maybe make space for Faerie NPC nations?


How about this ? If this is still too large I am happy for you to suggest how large I should be.
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I am retracting my interest.
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I am retracting my interest.


Alright, bye! Come back if you want! :)
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On second thought, I'm just finding the combination of WWII tech with 4cm tall fairies to be too much. I'm retracting interest as well.
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Ok, now this is disconcerting..
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On second thought, I'm just finding the combination of WWII tech with 4cm tall fairies to be too much. I'm retracting interest as well.


Seconded, I expected a bit more history and a bit less this kind of fantasy
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I'll drop out so you guys can stay it is ok.
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I'll drop out so you guys can stay it is ok.


Well now I feel guilty about it, but thanks. Have you thought about doing something similar with WoW inspired gnomes or something?
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...

It's falling apart already.
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It's falling apart already.


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Um, what's the problem with tiny fairies?
That was almost the very first thing mentioned in this RP.

Anyways, our nation claims are still way too big.That's exactly what I was saying before. The average should be only one tenth of this size.
Also we should pick a main continent where the great powers would concentrate.
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Well now I feel guilty about it, but thanks. Have you thought about doing something similar with WoW inspired gnomes or something?


There is no need to feel guilty I possibly went a bit overboard I wanted to make a race that would struggle with the modern warfare. It is my own fault I probably made them too small perhaps if I make them larger ?

I think the main problem I took inspiration for there scale from 24mm scale war game models, I envisioned the tiny people manning regular sized machinery like tanks which appear similar to those used other races but are internally more like battleship. If you opened up a Fariy tank I had imagined it to look somewhat like battleship models where the builder has taken the time to build everything each level each room for maximum detail. The command structure on a tank would have operated on the same principles as the navy ship each tank would have a captain and under the captain there would have officers each in charge of a key system of the tank.

This was one of the reasons I decided to go for vehicles with multiple turrets both on the tanks and aircraft since the species view them similarly to how we view large warships.



I went with fairies since they are one of the more unique fantasy species. Gnome are functionally small humans like Hobbits, I wanted to make a truly alien race that has a hard time relating to other species who in turn have trouble relating to mine. This is why I came up with the idea that there language is based on displaying various combinations of colour. Since that is how they evolved it is strange for us to communicate in such away but to them it is perfectly natural.
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Im about 50/50 on this now.
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@Gig

I really like your idea (you honestly don't know how much I like that sort of "it looks like a reguarly sized tank but its actually a mobile base and factory" thing) but I think the major issue is the fact they're so small. In a sci-fi RP I was in, there was a person with a race of basically alien fairies but she didn't make it too far due to reasons I will explain in this post.

With such a small race, you have something of a very unique if not slightly overpowered ability. You can basically spy on people and we'd never be able to see you or effectively catch you with luck or specialized equipment. Same goes for war since the fairies are so small, only a direct hit from a bullet or some AoE/flame thrower would hope to hit any of them while your faeries can just dash across the field or through some tiny tunnel and just kill troops via death by a thousand cuts, by passing any need of tanks or ships since they can just either run, swim, fly or use tiny boats and it'd be much harder to hit.

Economically, you're also isolated since we haven't gotten to the point where very very delicate machinery is need for things like computers. But at the same time, what ever you can produce, we can't use since it would either be too small or you'd take too much time building each thing to the size we'd be able to use it due to your race's size. Even if you had a bumper crop harvest, what ever you'd sell would be literally a plate's worth to everyone else.

I guess one idea would be to have two races that have a symbiotic relation with each other so you can have hobbit/humanish size people and a tiny fairy race supporting them? Have very good tech but that's also extremely delicate so that faeries are useful since they can work the delicate stuff much better? Something of an ancient bonding tradition of a hobbit and a faery companion like Link and that annoying ass blue flying lamp? Just some ideas.
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Um, what's the problem with tiny fairies?
That was almost the very first thing mentioned in this RP.

Anyways, our nation claims are still way too big.That's exactly what I was saying before. The average should be only one tenth of this size.
Also we should pick a main continent where the great powers would concentrate.


Realistically nations would be smaller but then we run into the issue of half the map being vacant. As in for concentrating all powers, why? At this point in real life, China, the USA, Russia, and several European countries were some of the big powers. That's a pretty big spread. It wasn't all concentrated in one continent.
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Um, what's the problem with tiny fairies?
That was almost the very first thing mentioned in this RP.

Anyways, our nation claims are still way too big.That's exactly what I was saying before. The average should be only one tenth of this size.
Also we should pick a main continent where the great powers would concentrate.


I'm trying to stay on an island (preferably island chain) but there are no real small archipelagos for me so I ended up claiming Wellow since it was the closest I could get
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Realistically nations would be smaller but then we run into the issue of half the map being vacant. As in for concentrating all powers, why? At this point in real life, China, the USA, Russia, and several European countries were some of the big powers. That's a pretty big spread. It wasn't all concentrated in one continent.
Then we use NPCs like all the other games did.
Also don't confuse exception with the rule.
Especially not when colonialism is going to be a theme here.

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I really like your idea (you honestly don't know how much I like that sort of "it looks like a reguarly sized tank but its actually a mobile base and factory" thing) but I think the major issue is the fact they're so small. In a sci-fi RP I was in, there was a person with a race of basically alien fairies but she didn't make it too far due to reasons I will explain in this post.

With such a small race, you have something of a very unique if not slightly overpowered ability. You can basically spy on people and we'd never be able to see you or effectively catch you with luck or specialized equipment.
The spying is a huge advantage I had already thought about but I figured that people would accept it as a natural positive, I mean it isn't like other races aren't going to have effective spies. It being difficult to spy on me is true basically impossible for humans. But allot of real spies are discontent citizens who have been persuaded to betray there country I am susceptible to this just like everyone else. Some good potential spies being Princesses who are unhappy they are being overlooked as the next queen persuaded due to promises that the nation in question will support her ascension with military action. Corrupt politicians dissatisfied with the current regime who desire a change.

Same goes for war since the fairies are so small, only a direct hit from a bullet or some AoE/flame thrower would hope to hit any of them while your faeries can just dash across the field or through some tiny tunnel and just kill troops via death by a thousand cuts, by passing any need of tanks or ships since they can just either run, swim, fly or use tiny boats and it'd be much harder to hit.
The weapons a 4cm fairy can carry wouldn't be a threat to a human soldier in any kind of armour because they would lake the penetration power needed to get threw it they would have to specifically target eyes. Even then if we go in character no sane fairy would agree to attack a human armed with a fairy sized weapon. It be like trying to persuade human armed with rifles to attack Godzilla I'm quite certain most people would refuse.

I don't plan to power game the race by having them all get equipped with suicide bombs and fly at human soldiers with no regard for there own lives. There not fanatics willing to throw away there lives as living smart bombs. They are individuals they will throw down there lives for there country like any soldier would but ultimately they still want to survive and have aspirations they wish to achieve before dying.

Economically, you're also isolated since we haven't gotten to the point where very very delicate machinery is need for things like computers. But at the same time, what ever you can produce, we can't use since it would either be too small or you'd take too much time building each thing to the size we'd be able to use it due to your race's size.

Even if you had a bumper crop harvest, what ever you'd sell would be literally a plate's worth to everyone else.
We don't sell the completed items we mass produce the parts which other civilizations use in the production of there own machines, such as the small pistons used in engines, circuitry, used in televisions or radios, making computers also isn't out of the question the united states had primitive computers in the late 1930s. Which they used on submarines to calculate trajectory of torpedoes surely such things would be of value.

As for the food industry it is a massive industry in real life, why is it unbelievable for it to be profitable for my species we don't require as much food as humans so it stands to reason selling it is a good idea. Just like how selling renting out territorial waters makes sense since my species doesn't make use of fish as a resource.

I decided to go for this small island instead (if me being in the game doesn't cause people to leave) I think it is remote enough and is relatively small
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@Gig

I really like your idea (you honestly don't know how much I like that sort of "it looks like a reguarly sized tank but its actually a mobile base and factory" thing) but I think the major issue is the fact they're so small. In a sci-fi RP I was in, there was a person with a race of basically alien fairies but she didn't make it too far due to reasons I will explain in this post.

With such a small race, you have something of a very unique if not slightly overpowered ability. You can basically spy on people and we'd never be able to see you or effectively catch you with luck or specialized equipment. Same goes for war since the fairies are so small, only a direct hit from a bullet or some AoE/flame thrower would hope to hit any of them while your faeries can just dash across the field or through some tiny tunnel and just kill troops via death by a thousand cuts, by passing any need of tanks or ships since they can just either run, swim, fly or use tiny boats and it'd be much harder to hit.

Economically, you're also isolated since we haven't gotten to the point where very very delicate machinery is need for things like computers. But at the same time, what ever you can produce, we can't use since it would either be too small or you'd take too much time building each thing to the size we'd be able to use it due to your race's size. Even if you had a bumper crop harvest, what ever you'd sell would be literally a plate's worth to everyone else.

I guess one idea would be to have two races that have a symbiotic relation with each other so you can have hobbit/humanish size people and a tiny fairy race supporting them? Have very good tech but that's also extremely delicate so that faeries are useful since they can work the delicate stuff much better? Something of an ancient bonding tradition of a hobbit and a faery companion like Link and that annoying ass blue flying lamp? Just some ideas.
The same advantages go with some heavy disadvantages.
You say that it's hard to hit a fairy with a gun which is right but they are fragile and you literally need thousands of them to match a human. Their tiny size also makes them very susceptible to poisons.
Similarly miniature devices are their thing but building larger things is next to impossible.
Also spying is a rather unused feature in NRS and if somebody is worried they just need to employ fairies of their own.
There are tons of them and certainly some would be willing to work with different countries.

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