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Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

Ah. My apologies then.

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

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REEEEEEEE

Listen here you lil' shits.

@LHG100

There's really no call to insult me over this?

I mean, did I somehow offend?

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The Vacuum isnt completely empty though

@Lucidnonsense

Alright, then I adopted an incorrect definition from an incorrect source. My field is history, not....this, at any rate.

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Thats not generally how Vacuum energy works though, you arent creating energy you are harvesting it from the vacuum, Vacuum energy would probably be best for low yeild power generation though, better for powering probes and not giant battleships

@Lucidnonsense

It's my experience that vacuum means literally void, nothing. Nada. Actually...

How I've heard it used anyway.

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...Just curious, but what exactly does that even mean? Like, I'm not asking for some kind of in-depth explanation, but I just don't get it.

@TheSovereignGrave

You know that whole energy can't be created or destroyed rule?

Forget that rule.

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

Right. It also occurs to me it's time to put up or shut up. Why am I still posting/talking if, as indicated by Vereb, things have now calmed down and my worries were for naught?

Why was I still posting in the first place.

Well. Being honest, it looks like I wasn't quite ready to leave as I believed.

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@Ophidian there's millions of galaxies out there. they won't look in your direction until suddenly you're kicking their teeth in. the narrative very well could be working up to that point. the UU scouts are basically the "get out of my face" assignment for really bad screw up a, so they'll get ignored.

@WrongEndoftheRainbow

That's straining suspension of disbelief honestly, to get anywhere near the level of challenging the UU, any civ from this game would need to take galaxies for their material needs, and you've said the UU deals on the level of galaxies-you're telling me they won't notice a power rising like that...well, I don't quite buy it honestly.

Especially when the powers here have such diverse tech-something tech-leeches would certainly notice spreading and expanding, considering how much their own existence, from your own words, depends on it.

I just think the behavior you're describing, and the attitudes, fit a galaxy-tier extra-galactic power more then they do something on the level you've described.

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I'm going for a way-out-there future nation, one that's been in the making for billions of years. most Sci fi stuff is near future, but I'm going for far far future.

@WrongEndoftheRainbow

I'll be honest, the Universal Union as is was a problem for me, and part of why I bugged out of the ships, which alone, I'd have been fine trying to hash out in part due to what Verb said:

My prime concern is with the size of WrongEndoftheRainbow's faction. And that's more on the level of aethetics and comfort in terms of worldbuilding. Universal Union is way too huge and kinda trivializes the entire game with its existence. Sure, WrongEndoftheRainbow's actual faction is far smaller but the existence of such power still puts a certain pressure on things which we might not want. Ophidian compared this to a sword of Damocles hanging above our heads. While that may be an exaggeration it's certainly not that nice of a feeling when you think about plots for this RP.

@Willy Vereb

I mean, to quote a convo I had with him:

I also wasn't comfortable with the idea that there was a Universal Union out there that could crush us all like dogs if it noticed us-it seems like...well, what's the point of building these nations then? Telling these stories? Get big enough to get noticed and stomped on? Yaaaaaaay. Tisha and Molotov lived happily ever after until the Universal Union noticed the upstart humans and conquered them in seven days. Yaaaaaay.

It's just...what's the point? Narrative-wise, these things matter alot to me.

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<Snipped quote by Ophidian>I think you are actually overreacting here quite a bit.
Chill, people having arguments is a good thing. It lets us seam over potential stresses and above all, to interact.
I really don't like when people freak out for a game actually having debates. Nobody is throwing insults at people or at least not in earnest.

Also what's the problem with each people trying for a different style? That's pretty standard in NRPs. Everyone has their own ideas. You can actually reconcile the two with ease using the wonder known as creative writing. Making a story allows you to have so many ways to seam over differences. Same with freeform RPs. The only difference is that both sides have to be willing.

@Willy Vereb

I realize this was not the intent, but you come off as sort of condescending here. My experience has been very very different from yours, suffice it to say, I've seen arguments kill games, I've been people pulling for different styles kill games.

The problem here is the power levels of the styles involved-fact is space opera is gonna stomp on realistic fantasy, and I doubt the realistic fantasy players want to be stomped on. I certainly didn't, and I left when it seemed like it'd inevitably lead to that due to the tech disparity.

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@Keyguyperson

I'm just going to apologize real quick for suggesting people wait for you then going ahead and doing this without you here.

ALRIGHT.

Mood music.



Grave suggested this and I should have fucking listened. I thought because I left, that was that, and it didn't really merit discussion. Going from....

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That is clearly not the case. I'm not the GM. I have no power. I want to stress that this is just me, as a player/former player, trying to help unfuck the mess he made.

To sum it up:

We've got alot of people. who all want something different, narrativewise, technologically, and all that. I thought I was getting a sort of realistic-fantasy type deal, with the Union and Romans setting the tone. This is not entirely the case. Verb and co thought they were getting a full on space opera, this is not entirely the case, and there are factions built for both setting types in the same RPG.

This is clearly not going to work, we've got people, like myself, leaving, or not talking with other players over this. If I'd known my leaving would set this off, I just woulda slunk off and not posted at all, which hey, is shitty, but wouldn't have done this. That's an upside.

So now, I suggest we actually listen to Grave, list what we'd like out of this game, then give up things we want so we can have other things we want. You know. That thing you do when you can't kill your enemies.