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Cities in the Sky: A Mecha RP (Still Accepting)

@Patient 43Delta @Mr Allen J @FallenTrinity @Dynamo Frokane

Are you guys still interested in this or am I just proving I'm paranoid by asking?

@ArenaSnow

Are you interested at all? You have posted here twice, but you haven't said one way or the other if you'll be joining in.

Cities in the Sky: A Mecha RP (Still Accepting)

08th MS Team is the best thing to ever grace that entire franchise.

Should I be worried at this point about all the people who expressed interest and haven't said anything else?

Cities in the Sky: A Mecha RP (Still Accepting)

It's on the to watch list. Probably finish Seed and then Orphans and then G.

Cities in the Sky: A Mecha RP (Still Accepting)

Watched a bit of the fighting in FMP episode 5. It seems that mechs in that have a very full range of motion since even the lumbering looking savage is capable of performing a forward roll and then there's that other mech that can do flips and shit. I don't think those are things mechs should be able to do. Kinda conflicts with how weighty they should be. At least that's my opinion, though one I'll be enforcing. That and they take one hit and either loose limbs or get blown open which is way weaker than I want. Aesthetically they are quite fine and I may steal the savage for something in this rp.

The Magical Girl Styled Robot is admittedly odd even for this tournament, but this will be as much an advertising event as anything else so you'd better believe that there will be some weird designs scattered throughout in the name of getting attention. You don't need to win to sell more of your stuff =P.

Cities in the Sky: A Mecha RP (Still Accepting)

sounds fine on the armor, I just want to know your perception of how it performs and that is what you have provided so good. Just let me know when your done editing the thing and I can accept it.

As for the feel, I guess I was imagining something between Code Geass and Hawken. They are kind of disparate I know, but I like to imagine of working from something more than Hawken to something more like Code Geass, but I want to try an incorporate other people's ideas of the fantasy so if they don't want their character and mech to develop in that direction I want to try and make that happen. Within reason. No super robots though. Gotta cut it off somewhere.

Anyway youtube.com/watch?v=DvCO8850CjU that's a link for Hawken. Notably different from that to my vision is that jump jets would be more burst of movement than consistent speed boos/flyingish thing that the game also let's you do and no mid fight healing robots. I'm sure there's something else that I don't want, but whatever.

As for Code Geass finding stuff of the low level mechs fighting is harder than I thought so I'm just going to hope you're somewhat familiar with that already. That show definitely portrays mechs as more dextrous than I'd like and I'm not terribly interested in the slash harkens as a concept, but given enough time and development that is the path a lot of npc mechs will end up taking.

Again I want to incorporate other people's fantasies so feel free to develop in a different way or tell me that my ideas are shit and I should reign it in. Assuming enough people tell me the second one it'll actually work.

Now if you've seen GreenGoat's character then you may notice that its control system would make it a lot more dexterous than I'd like, but I'm allowing it as it's its only special thing and it's an experimental mech. If you have specific concerns I am willing to listen. We have time to change things.

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@ArenaSnow

I'm sorry, but I'm not sure that enlightened me in any way. Could you help me out a bit on that? As a side note Sophrus has that mech as his picture in his WIP character sheet. That doesn't have anything to do with this, but whatever.

EDIT: I have seen your edit.

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I cannot budge on the corps fighting each other. That is a point of the setting that they settle their problems in sanctioned fights. In theory they could try and hit each other in secret like in Shadowrun, but then you'd be operating as more of a hired criminal or terrorist than an official military man and every company around would deny having anything to do with you and they certainly wouldn't send you to the tournament so they can keep a plausible deniability. You could still enter on your own though. You could have fought these shadow forces of another corp, but it would be hard to prove to what corp they belonged to if any.

I can't say I've thought out armor that well, and let's be frank if I did then we wouldn't be running a mech campaign because the more real science we apply the less useful they become. Let's face it mechs are't actually practical. I am just running under the assumption that at its worst, this universe's armor is lighter and stronger than the most heavily armored of modern tanks.

You didn't need to touch the height, but okay.

I'm going to keep Krupps age more vague than 400 years, because I don't want to be tied to a particular time period and add the s to monthas, but the description is otherwise good to go as soon as we are in agreement on the corps fighting each other issue.

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@Cayden Black

I'll get back to you on MECH if I finalize any kind of abbreviation. It can stand for now, just don't be surprised when I come back at some point and ask to change it to something else.

Seems good on everything you say on the military stuff, just make sure to remove mention of him fighting other corps because that doesn't happen and understand that his not talking is very much a contract regardless of how okay he is with that. So just a minor change to remove mention of corps and that's dealt with.

The height is fine I'm just mentioning it. not sure why I guess. If that's how much it would weigh based on tank stuff than maybe its fine. I'd generally want the armor to be better than that of a tank though. My running assumption is that the mechs are baseline more well protected than modern tanks and going up from there which may change how you view its armor. That said if you want it to have older armor or at least older styled armor than its weight would make a lot of sense.

I knew Mothian was my fault... damn it.

So yeah just remove the bit about fighting other corps and add his reason for being in the tournament and I think I can accept it. It would be nice if you added in the other details in, but it should be fine. Alter the weight if you want, but if its built more like a tank than modern mechs then its weight makes sense so it can stay, I still want to know how fast/maneuverable it is, but I just want to know that for me and it doesn't have to be in there, but it would be nice if it was for the sake of other players. The paragraph about your corp should be separate from your sheet. Just put it somewhere I can copy it and add it to the first post.

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@Sophrus

No lasers unless the purpose of your mech is for testing energy weapons. They aren't a thing yet. They may however be as part of a mid season upgrade after the tournament if we get there.

@ArenaSnow

Should i take that as interest then? =)

@Cayden Black

Just going to bring up complaints as I come across them.

You say he has an understanding of MECH systems, but I am currently running with the official term being mechanical frame. You are welcome to convince me to change that though.

Him being a military man is a little odd in a world that hasn't know war for 40-80 years (I haven't quite decided exactly when then uninventively named "Last War" was) and the corps do not openly fight each other. Now that said he could still hold himself in a military demeanor, but unless he's going to have served in the Last War, in which case he'd be like 60 or 80 or something, then all of his combat would be against rebels and terrorists, probably all derived from the lower classes rising up and trying to use their mining mechs for combat. At least from my perspective that wouldn't change much about your backstory if you went with that. If you do just know that such rebellions are kept on the down low and John isn't allowed to talk about it.

Its a little short, but that's not an issue, but it sure does weigh a lot. Now I can be convinced that things should weigh more and yours can certainly weigh more than average if you'd like, but I was thinking something more like 10-12 tons would be average. I get that from vaguely extrapolating out what a knightmare frame from Code Geass would weigh if it was 20 ft tall. they're actually shorter than that to my surprise. So assuming you don't convince me it should weigh that much you should knock it down a bit.

For the record how powerful are you imagining the vulcans to be? That may or may not have any barring on John being accepted. Where is the grenade launcher? The left arm? What exactly is the back mounted system? you mention the armor and while its fine to be specific, I personally need to know if it is supposed to be more or less armored than "average," Which I realize hasn't been specifically defined and maybe I should try to do something about that. Its Monthian Reactor. With an n. I should probably go look over my own work to make sure I didn't fuck that up somewhere myself.

Some other things I want to know are. How mobile is this machine? and why is John Carter in the tournament? Then separately I need a paragraph write up about your corp so I can add it to my slowly growing list. You will be credited.

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@Sophrus

It is open for applications until people tell me to stop.