Fifth Timeline: Nostalgia

[Lavi]

Zen, you should not have to wait for an admin to get on your case about profiles. If numerous members say that your character is ridiculous, you need to listen to them. Listen to what Sheo said.

 

[Zen]

Zen, you should not have to wait for an admin to get on your case about profiles. If numerous members say that your character is ridiculous, you need to listen to them. Listen to what Sheo said.

Yeah, and I have reduced the level of the powers on my character I first made that were overpowered.

 

[Kaeb]

Zen if you are being serious, I am completely baffled.

 

[Phil]

Alright, Lavi-San already laid it down to Zen. This thread is not about him, no need to derail it further.

 

[Guardian Medic]

Yes although I don't keep up on the EU as much as I would like to, I recently read in the wookiepedia article about Corellia:

When the war ended, although Corellia and the rest of the Confederation made peace, they did not rejoin the Galactic Alliance, but did resolve post-war disputes 2 years later by Turr Phennir on the alliance capital of Coruscant.

What is going to happen with this?

 

[Ser Gregor]

Yes although I don't keep up on the EU as much as I would like to, I recently read in the wookiepedia article about Corellia:


What is going to happen with this?

Since that was 1,000 years ago (basically) we'll probably state that they reintegrated in to the Federation at some point.

However, the ever-present 'rebellious' streak the Corellians have could prove for interesting RP in this timeline.

Regardless, I'll bring it up in the Think Tank.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

Yeah, we don't want your Nonomyths be the cause of a new rule of staff inspection before usage. Afterall, we know that the staff are just so quick about getting back to you on stuff.

Sarcasm duly noted, but we are generally quick. Most of the time, at least from where I'm standing, we'll get to your PMs as soon as we see them.

*shrug* he is an admin. If you ever find that character I suppose you can have another admin look at it.

We don't have a rule about hybrids, so "he is an admin" is irrelevant.

 

[Guardian Medic]

Since that was 1,000 years ago (basically) we'll probably state that they reintegrated in to the Federation at some point.

However, the ever-present 'rebellious' streak the Corellians have could prove for interesting RP in this timeline.

Regardless, I'll bring it up in the Think Tank.

Thanks. I was thinking, even though I'm super new here, why do we start off with factions already warring. This kind of leaves off the creativity from the RP status. I understand that the republic is "fearing" the Sith. But why can't the Jedi decide if it wants to help the republic or not? Also Why do we create inner factions such as the RMC/RMA/S13/ whatever and just have the RPers create their own junk? That way, it doesn't seem as forced.

 

[Ser Gregor]

That just leads to stagnation. Building up to a war works when you're not relying on a large number of people to all create story to get to the war.

We tried going the 'natural' approach before with Factions and it failed badly.

Also, there needs to be a balance in the RP to start off. If the Jedi, Mandalorians, Alliance, and Imperial Knights, and Chiss all gang up on the Sith there goes the timeline in like... 4 months.

We can't have RPers going wild with the Main Factions; ie creating their own mini-groups, or else the Faction becomes impossible to manage and, hey, bam, timeline done in 4 months.

 

[Guardian Medic]

Ok I understand now, thanks. Now I'm going back to my rightful place with my head in the books. I absolutely love the fact that we are going past everything that's already been done! Now we can make our own history and not worry about a little kid destroying all of our hard work LOL
Good luck guys.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

That just leads to stagnation. Building up to a war works when you're not relying on a large number of people to all create story to get to the war.

We tried going the 'natural' approach before with Factions and it failed badly.

Also, there needs to be a balance in the RP to start off. If the Jedi, Mandalorians, Alliance, and Imperial Knights, and Chiss all gang up on the Sith there goes the timeline in like... 4 months.

We can't have RPers going wild with the Main Factions; ie creating their own mini-groups, or else the Faction becomes impossible to manage and, hey, bam, timeline done in 4 months.

Yeah, basically, a lot of choices that are made in the beginning of the timeline are done in the interest of not only creating the best possible timeline, but in the interest of timeline sustainability. We don't want to be changing timelines every few months.

 

[Cailst]

Also, there needs to be a balance in the RP to start off. If the Jedi, Mandalorians, Alliance, and Imperial Knights, and Chiss all gang up on the Sith there goes the timeline in like... 4 months.

If they all were to do that and they were to crush the Sith, there'd be plenty of room for more conflict. The alliance, the mandos, and chiss all aren't fond of each other. The Imperial Knights would probably be trying to get back their empire. And the surviving members of the Sith would be trying to squirm their way back into the control of any of the surviving empires.

The worst thing would be that the Mandos or the Chiss aren't exactly card carrying villains but a massacre attributed to them wouldn't be out of the wild blue.

 

[Samara]

If they all were to do that and they were to crush the Sith, there'd be plenty of room for more conflict. The alliance, the mandos, and chiss all aren't fond of each other. The Imperial Knights would probably be trying to get back their empire. And the surviving members of the Sith would be trying to squirm their way back into the control of any of the surviving empires.

The worst thing would be that the Mandos or the Chiss aren't exactly card carrying villains but a massacre attributed to them wouldn't be out of the wild blue.

This is totally true and right on spot

 

[Brandon Rhea]

Allow me to repeat what Nexus said: "Also, there needs to be a balance in the RP to start off."

The key words in there are "to start off." If you start off the timeline with the decked stacked against one side, then that side is guaranteed to lose. You can't just have every faction going after another faction, it's not fair and it's not sustainable.

As we have said multiple times now, if this happens naturally in the course of the RP, then that's great -- but we start timelines with a balance of power so it can go in any direction, not a direction dictated by the conditions at the starting line.

What happens after the start of the timeline is anyone's guess. It can go in any direction with any outcome, because there's no canon ahead of us.

 

[Jackofalltrades]

I'm still a bit new to this site, but I was wondering once the fifth timeline arrives, can we continue using our old characters? I mean do we need to retire them or can we still use them in rps not centered around the main story?

 

[Ser Gregor]

I'm still a bit new to this site, but I was wondering once the fifth timeline arrives, can we continue using our old characters? I mean do we need to retire them or can we still use them in rps not centered around the main story?

If you're referring to continuing to RP in this timeline and setting (13,000 BBY and the Hutt Wars) then no, you won't be able to.

If you're referring to making the necessary edits in references, factions and history and using your old character (since you only have 3 posts you haven't gotten to use him/her/it yet, obviously) then, because that is the case, yes.

 

[Samara]

I thought they were talking about that kind of stuff happening ICly, not before or right after the start. That even if it did, it wouldn't mean the end of the timeline.

 

[Ser Gregor]

I thought they were talking about that kind of stuff happening ICly, not before or right after the start. That even if it did, it wouldn't mean the end of the timeline.

No Sith=end of timeline.

And saying 'oh but they're all secret and stuff' means that people can't have Sith do anything. The Bogan relied on secrecy for the first part of this current timeline and that was a major reason why people were generally disinterested with that faction and, as an extension, the timeline.

 

[Michael Scott]

I'm still a bit new to this site, but I was wondering once the fifth timeline arrives, can we continue using our old characters? I mean do we need to retire them or can we still use them in rps not centered around the main story?

not to be a stick in the mud.......but: the 5th timeline is like 1,100 years after a New Hope. Which is like 12,000 years from the current timeline. So, if you char can: apparate into the future, survive the Clone Wars, the Great Jedi Purge, the Galactic Civil War, the war against the remnants, the war against the Yuvhan Zong, and then a couple of hundred years after that; then yeah, your character can be used. Don't forget though, that would be one hell of a biography. :CSly

 

[Dread]

On subject...

I asked someone's permission to have my character believe in the religion they created with their character in this timeline. Except, a warped version I made of it. I think that'll really add onto my character, and it'll be a nice way to remember this timeline.