Dawn of the Republic: Border Alliance

[Mr.BossMan]

I know, i haven't done much PvP at all this Timeline. And what i have done it's been with a Force Sensitive and strictly No-Death.

But next Timeline, i am going to send my guy to every engagement, trying to kill him off. He will be a fighter and i will PvP with him plenty.

 

[DangerousTinkerer]

I haven't done any PvP in this timeline, just been PvE with the threads I could join. With having a medic and if written correctly, could get them into some trouble but always trying to stay safe for the need to help those around them. Will be interesting at least though.

 

[TAC]

PvP, and a more realistic atmosphere for getting into engagements, are going to be a cornerstone of the next timeline.

In case anyone has not yet done so, make sure you check out the timeline updates in the announcement boards. They have a lot of really vital information about how the next timeline is going to be, including how rules and culture might be changing come January.

 

[Caine]

I'm probably gonna be avoiding the PvP, I don't think I'll have enough time to be able to do it properly without falling behind on all the other threads I'm in given the rules for it.

 

[Sin]

I will definitely get involved with any PvP threads that make sense for my character to be engaged in. I'm not going to put my character in some random spot for a PvP thread sign-up like it was done for the Manaan threads though. That shit just made zero sense imo.

Also, if serious about the more military style squad, I would check out this thread that I made to help people with military writing in a fiction setting: http://www.thestarwarsrp.com/forum/...tary-science-fiction-star-wars-edition.61025/

Pretty passionate about military writing in science fiction and I'm really REALLY passionate about elite special units in science fiction. It's been a strong passion of mine for a while now and have been writing military special forces units in Star Wars ever since. Really, it's one of my only interests anymore when it comes to writing.

Anyway. Yeah. I'll see how things develop and go from there. I can be pretty particular, so I'll just see how things go before I become a chronic killjoy. :p

 

[FluxFun]

I think I'm going to keep all my characters strictly independent, until one of them develops an interest in a faction through roleplay and storytelling.

 

[The Captain]

I was wondering how many people here are making a force-sensitive for this faction?

 

[Sin]

I was wondering how many people here are making a force-sensitive for this faction?

Honestly? Hopefully none... I just don't see why they would. I mean who/what benefits from it? Someone made good points earlier. If you're Force sensitive in a faction/group where there is no calling for such a thing then it actually makes your character less interesting. So you're a pilot. You use the Force to pilot your starship, cool... Not really a great pilot then are you? So you're a soldier and you somehow use the Force without any training and have an upper hand...cool (I guess?)... Still a lackluster soldier if you're using the Force and everyone else is keeping up with you without it...

I mean, honestly, unless you're a trained Sith or Jedi I won't be entertaining any character having any innate abilities or powers that put them above the average trooper. The fact of the matter is that you will be roleplaying with a bunch of soldiers who will be doing the same shit that your "Force-sensitive" soldier is doing which just makes it all kind of pointless at the end of the day.

Just my two cents. Also... *DISCLAIMER* Any use of the words you or your or you're isn't directed at any one person in particular, just sharing my thoughts on the matter is all.

 

[Outlander]

Honestly? Hopefully none... I just don't see why they would. I mean who/what benefits from it? Someone made good points earlier. If you're Force sensitive in a faction/group where there is no calling for such a thing then it actually makes your character less interesting. So you're a pilot. You use the Force to pilot your starship, cool... Not really a great pilot then are you? So you're a soldier and you somehow use the Force without any training and have an upper hand...cool (I guess?)... Still a lackluster soldier if you're using the Force and everyone else is keeping up with you without it...

I mean, honestly, unless you're a trained Sith or Jedi I won't be entertaining any character having any innate abilities or powers that put them above the average trooper. The fact of the matter is that you will be roleplaying with a bunch of soldiers who will be doing the same shit that your "Force-sensitive" soldier is doing which just makes it all kind of pointless at the end of the day.

Just my two cents. Also... *DISCLAIMER* Any use of the words you or your or you're isn't directed at any one person in particular, just sharing my thoughts on the matter is all.

The force can be used for interesting things, not just as a flat stat boost. :\

 

[The Captain]

@Sin

Thank you for the input. It was more curiosity than a desire to make a Firce user.

Also, the Border Alliance Verpine I'm working on...I have an idea for a project he will work on. Documenting the battle with the Sith and showing the Republic what is happening on their own borders.

 

[Sin]

@TheHook1

No worries, m8. Just my opinion. Take it like a grain of salt.

@Outlander

There is truth to what you said, but... I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[Ral]

Honestly? Hopefully none... I just don't see why they would. I mean who/what benefits from it? Someone made good points earlier. If you're Force sensitive in a faction/group where there is no calling for such a thing then it actually makes your character less interesting. So you're a pilot. You use the Force to pilot your starship, cool... Not really a great pilot then are you? So you're a soldier and you somehow use the Force without any training and have an upper hand...cool (I guess?)... Still a lackluster soldier if you're using the Force and everyone else is keeping up with you without it...

I mean, honestly, unless you're a trained Sith or Jedi I won't be entertaining any character having any innate abilities or powers that put them above the average trooper. The fact of the matter is that you will be roleplaying with a bunch of soldiers who will be doing the same shit that your "Force-sensitive" soldier is doing which just makes it all kind of pointless at the end of the day.

Just my two cents. Also... *DISCLAIMER* Any use of the words you or your or you're isn't directed at any one person in particular, just sharing my thoughts on the matter is all.

Wow, you just called Rogue Squadron Corran Horn less interesting and lackluster.

 

[Outlander]

@Outlander

There is truth to what you said, but... I'll believe it when I see it.

Corran Horn for example. Or every character that has some force sensitivity that isn't a jedi.

 

[BLADE]

*Snips*

WHOA MANG

Does that mean BLADE is less of an illin' fang-chillin' (wit some Smirnoff Ice... pick through da heart) vampire hunter cuz he a daywalker?

NAH MAH DAWG. Yo check it.

Da whole point of Star Wars is when people (and beings too, though I guess dey peeps as well) of all creeds and talents work together against a monochrome Empire with some suckas in acanthous plastic armor dawg. It also proleptic, but you know, we started on the bottom and now we on the top.

I understand your opinion, and I think it's kewl homes that you got dat opinion and that perspective to share with da crew round here. But! I should point out that

1. In your example, da Forz dawg is not some dispositive advantage. A soldier might hesitate because their empathy in the Force makes it even harder to gat some foo'.

2. Da Forz is just as much a part of those homies as any non-Forz pilot dawg relies on dat eyesight mang. T'aint no different than the Air Force requiring recruit foo's to have good eyesight (and not being colorblind.) Dem's just fax mang.

3. Don't take dis to mean I'm aiming to disrespec' u dawg, as I think u have a unique perspective (and also some mad experience bringing in bread in other SW sites, no?) and that's good, but RP is also about unbending from your own expectations dawg. I mean check it, that's how we grow as writers and people. As my home dawg Solzhenitsyn wrote --when an outcast but unfortunately not an OutKast (even though that sucka was ice cold) from Soviet society-- even prisons are shared communities and at the end of my day, Sinizzle, the best part of SWRP is da people.

I hope in fact, that dese peeps extend you a warm welcome and maybe u change your mind homes about da Forz and its potentials for diegetic growth or at least it enriches your existing perspective.

Ya feel me?

- BLADE

 

[The Captain]

WHOA MANG

Does that mean BLADE is less of an illin' fang-chillin' (wit some Smirnoff Ice... pick through da heart vampire hunter?) cuz he a daywalker?

NAH MAH DAWG. Yo check it.

Da whole point of Star Wars is when people (and beings too, though I guess dey peeps as well) of all creeds and talents work together against a monochrome Empire with some suckas in acanthous plastic armor dawg. It also proleptic, but you know, we started on the bottom and now we on the top.

I understand your opinion, and I think it's kewl homes that you got dat opinion and that perspective to share with da crew round here. But! I should point out that

1. In your example, da Forz dawg is not some dispositive advantage. A soldier might hesitate because their empathy in the Force makes it even harder to gat some foo'.

2. Da Forz is just as much a part of those homies as any non-Forz pilot dawg relies on dat eyesight mang. T'aint no different than the Air Force requiring recruit foo's to have good eyesight (and not being colorblind.) Dem's just fax mang.

3. Don't take dis to mean I'm aiming to disrespec' u dawg, as I think u have a unique perspective (and also some mad experience bringing in bread in other SW sites, no?) and that's good, but RP is also about unbending from your own expectations dawg. I mean check it, that's how we grow as writers and people. As my home dawg Solzhenitsyn wrote --when an outcast but unfortunately not an OutKast (even though that sucka was ice cold) from Soviet society-- even prisons are shared communities and at the end of my day, Sinizzle, the best part of SWRP is da people.

I hope in fact, that dese peeps extend you a warm welcome and maybe u change your mind homes about da Forz and its potentials for diegetic growth or at least it enriches your existing perspective.

Ya feel me?

- BLADE

...translation?

 

[TAC]

I think this conversation doesn't actually help the faction. There has been no indication from the administrators that the think tank or rules might dis-allow force users within the ranks of the BA.

Everyone is still welcome to RP with whatever character they'd like. Sin just prefers non-force users, and doesn't like to RP with non-Jedi/Sith force users, and that is his choice.

Lets keep this topic and thread productive to sharing our ideas about our characters and what we hope for the BA, yeah?

 

[Outlander]

I think this conversation doesn't actually help the faction. There has been no indication from the administrators that the think tank or rules might dis-allow force users within the ranks of the BA.

Everyone is still welcome to RP with whatever character they'd like. Sin just prefers non-force users, and doesn't like to RP with non-Jedi/Sith force users, and that is his choice.

Lets keep this topic and thread productive to sharing our ideas about our characters and what we hope for the BA, yeah?

If he's allowed to give his opinion on the subject, then aren't we too allowed?

 

[Caine]

One additional fact to consider, in PvP unless it's changed force users are not allowed to use direct force attacks against non force sensitive people because they have no way to defend against it, if however you are force sensitive even if you have 0 training and have never even used the force they're still free to Darth Vader your ass with a force choke and you have 0 defense against it.

So if you are force sensitive but don't have the training to go with it your essentially signing your own death warrant if you ever fight a trained force user unless he intentionally handicaps himself and given our enemies I wouldn't bet on them passing up a free kill.

 

[Sin]

For sure, you are @Outlander and I totally get where you guys are coming from and perhaps you mistook my meaning. There is no doubt that legit FS characters can pull on roles like pilots and soldiers... SPOILER ALERT FOR EPISODE VII

Spoiler

We're going to see one such character in the new movie.

And we saw similar characters throughout the novels. Heck, Kanan Jarrus was a cool FS character that never used his lightsaber in the book A New Dawn... Though in the series he uses his lightsaber all the time now-a-days. >_<

What I was getting at is that in my experience it's rare that people pull it off on RP sites and having been scorched by such RP time and time again I've come to just avoid it altogether.

@BLADE

A. I appreciate the delivery, it put a lighthearted feel on a very warm felt message.

B. I hope you talk like that in real life sometimes because that would be pretty dope.

C. Getting back to point A. Yeah, I feel you and I understand. Of course I will deal with everything on a case by case basis and will do my homework in any situation where I'm presented with a character that might be throwing up a red flag as I previously mentioned.

To appease @TAC I'll bring this full circle on how this all applies to this thread.

In short, everyone has made points on how FS characters could help or hurt a faction like the BA. It all depends on what your intentions are for making your character FS. If it's because you want to be a special snowflake interesting unique character that isn't like anyone else then you're probably doing it for the wrong reasons. If you're doing it for a simple stat boost like Outlander mentioned earlier, you're probably doing it for the wrong reasons. But if you're doing it because you want to explore the impact such an ability might have on your character and not exploit the Force in order to make your character "better" than everyone else then I think that would be cool and it might be something that I would want my character to experience with you as a companion and colleague.

Hope that all make sense?

p.s. @BLADE if I could like your post more than once I would. lol

 

[TAC]

If he's allowed to give his opinion on the subject, then aren't we too allowed?

For sure, you are @Outlander and I totally get where you guys are coming from and perhaps you mistook my meaning. There is no doubt that legit FS characters can pull on roles like pilots and soldiers... SPOILER ALERT FOR EPISODE VII

Spoiler

We're going to see one such character in the new movie.

And we saw similar characters throughout the novels. Heck, Kanan Jarrus was a cool FS character that never used his lightsaber in the book A New Dawn... Though in the series he uses his lightsaber all the time now-a-days. >_<

What I was getting at is that in my experience it's rare that people pull it off on RP sites and having been scorched by such RP time and time again I've come to just avoid it altogether.

@BLADE

A. I appreciate the delivery, it put a lighthearted feel on a very warm felt message.

B. I hope you talk like that in real life sometimes because that would be pretty dope.

C. Getting back to point A. Yeah, I feel you and I understand. Of course I will deal with everything on a case by case basis and will do my homework in any situation where I'm presented with a character that might be throwing up a red flag as I previously mentioned.

To appease @TAC I'll bring this full circle on how this all applies to this thread.

In short, everyone has made points on how FS characters could help or hurt a faction like the BA. It all depends on what your intentions are for making your character FS. If it's because you want to be a special snowflake interesting unique character that isn't like anyone else then you're probably doing it for the wrong reasons. If you're doing it for a simple stat boost like Outlander mentioned earlier, you're probably doing it for the wrong reasons. But if you're doing it because you want to explore the impact such an ability might have on your character and not exploit the Force in order to make your character "better" than everyone else then I think that would be cool and it might be something that I would want my character to experience with you as a companion and colleague.

Hope that all make sense?

p.s. @BLADE if I could like your post more than once I would. lol

I can't tell you to do anything, @Outlander.

I would just rather we keep things positive and productive until at least post-thinktank.

But if you two think this conversation is helpful to the faction, so be it. Please just be accommodating, even if you disagree with the other person.