Richard DaystromHello CMDR's

Role playing here is certainly interesting, aside from the personal drama's which play out as well.

In the role playing, and creating fanciful stories, I have come to the conclusion that 400 Billion stars is quite a vast cosmos, and as someone said, "it would be a terrible waste of space if no other life existed in the universe".  Taking that concept and expanding on it, it would be nice if Elite Horizons placed in the far reaches of space, some of the empires, space dramas and AI opponents contained within these wonderful alternate story lines. Granted, Elite started as one man's vision of space and it's empires, but there seems to be a definite undercurrent of feeling we would like to visit those cultures, places and events. Elite certainly has the room for it, and I doubt in every day gameplay, we would ever use more than twenty percent of the cosmos given to us.

Just a thought!

Be safe.

Richard DaystromHello CMDR's

Role playing here is certainly interesting, aside from the personal drama's which play out as well.

In the role playing, and creating fanciful stories, I have come to the conclusion that 400 Billion stars is quite a vast cosmos, and as someone said, "it would be a terrible waste of space if no other life existed in the universe".  Taking that concept and expanding on it, it would be nice if Elite Horizons placed in the far reaches of space, some of the empires, space dramas and AI opponents contained within these wonderful alternate story lines. Granted, Elite started as one man's vision of space and it's empires, but there seems to be a definite undercurrent of feeling we would like to visit those cultures, places and events. Elite certainly has the room for it, and I doubt in every day gameplay, we would ever use more than twenty percent of the cosmos given to us.

Just a thought!

Be safe.

Luke3107Basically what Stryker said but to clarify, they aren't mutually exclusive. Some people run short stories and ignore them during RP, but others allow their RP to influence the short stories.

Best I can do is use myself as an example. I have short stories in the pipeline that are basically a backstory that I intend to finish where the characters enter the RP forums then have the short stories continue where my characters leave the station. Like you said, a running narrative between the two.

It's entirely up to you how you do it. But while your short stories are your own and you can do what you like with them, we ask that during the RP, you stick to the rules of the Elite: Dangerous Universe. There are really two main reasons for this:

1. Your rules may be different to someone elses rules. Having a set universe allows everyones ideas to remain consistent and parallel.
It's all fun and games until one person decides their Sidewinder has a direct link to the Death Star and intends to target Starfleet Academy and destroy the Dragonborn to gain control of the Master Chief. (Or something.... I dunno....)
2. You control your character in RP and only your own. Whether they are a "good" writer or not is a matter of opinion but the fact remains that the person you are interacting with knows their character better than you. Some people are content to let little things slide such as (directly from my experience again) "expressing bewilderment at being let loose from jail" but others would prefer that even those remain products of the owners own thoughts.
Again, it's a problem when someone is, say, running down a corridoor and an unexpected person jumps in and writes "And he shouted at the person running to stop, and in response the runner stopped and turned around before flipping him the bird." Now the owner of that character has an action to deal with that he/she may not have even wanted in her characters story. Nor even one that he/she deems consistent with that character.

Simply put, if you are interacting, or starting an interaction with another RP'er. You dictate YOUR action, then await the other persons reaction. But bare in mind that even a simple hello can escalate rapidly to something more sinister.

On a sub note, time in RPing doesn't flow normally. Best I can recommend is ignore timelines for events and only deal with what your character is involved with. It only takes thirty seconds to get a drink. But in the time it takes you to sit down and begin talking with someone, 3 murders, a fight and a space battle could easily have come and gone by the time you get a response.

Hopefully that helps. Welcome aboard CMDR and hope to see you out in the black as well as here... In the orange? (Sounded better in my head... Sorry...)

Luke3107

Richard DaystromHello CMDR's

Role playing here is certainly interesting, aside from the personal drama's which play out as well.

In the role playing, and creating fanciful stories, I have come to the conclusion that 400 Billion stars is quite a vast cosmos, and as someone said, "it would be a terrible waste of space if no other life existed in the universe".  Taking that concept and expanding on it, it would be nice if Elite Horizons placed in the far reaches of space, some of the empires, space dramas and AI opponents contained within these wonderful alternate story lines. Granted, Elite started as one man's vision of space and it's empires, but there seems to be a definite undercurrent of feeling we would like to visit those cultures, places and events. Elite certainly has the room for it, and I doubt in every day gameplay, we would ever use more than twenty percent of the cosmos given to us.

Just a thought!

Be safe.

Feel like this is appropriate again:

Luke3107Basically what Stryker said but to clarify, they aren't mutually exclusive. Some people run short stories and ignore them during RP, but others allow their RP to influence the short stories.

Best I can do is use myself as an example. I have short stories in the pipeline that are basically a backstory that I intend to finish where the characters enter the RP forums then have the short stories continue where my characters leave the station. Like you said, a running narrative between the two.

It's entirely up to you how you do it. But while your short stories are your own and you can do what you like with them, we ask that during the RP, you stick to the rules of the Elite: Dangerous Universe. There are really two main reasons for this:

1. Your rules may be different to someone elses rules. Having a set universe allows everyones ideas to remain consistent and parallel.
It's all fun and games until one person decides their Sidewinder has a direct link to the Death Star and intends to target Starfleet Academy and destroy the Dragonborn to gain control of the Master Chief. (Or something.... I dunno....)
2. You control your character in RP and only your own. Whether they are a "good" writer or not is a matter of opinion but the fact remains that the person you are interacting with knows their character better than you. Some people are content to let little things slide such as (directly from my experience again) "expressing bewilderment at being let loose from jail" but others would prefer that even those remain products of the owners own thoughts.
Again, it's a problem when someone is, say, running down a corridoor and an unexpected person jumps in and writes "And he shouted at the person running to stop, and in response the runner stopped and turned around before flipping him the bird." Now the owner of that character has an action to deal with that he/she may not have even wanted in her characters story. Nor even one that he/she deems consistent with that character.

Simply put, if you are interacting, or starting an interaction with another RP'er. You dictate YOUR action, then await the other persons reaction. But bare in mind that even a simple hello can escalate rapidly to something more sinister.

On a sub note, time in RPing doesn't flow normally. Best I can recommend is ignore timelines for events and only deal with what your character is involved with. It only takes thirty seconds to get a drink. But in the time it takes you to sit down and begin talking with someone, 3 murders, a fight and a space battle could easily have come and gone by the time you get a response.

Hopefully that helps. Welcome aboard CMDR and hope to see you out in the black as well as here... In the orange? (Sounded better in my head... Sorry...)

With regards to aliens. ED has prequels that contained an alien race known as the Thargoids. Although it has since been decided by FD themselves that those games are non-canon. While that hasn't stopped the occasional mention of them, it should be noted that within the game, we are just now encountering alien wreckages.

Luke3107Would you be willing to accept a brainwashed sleeper agent? I can see someone making that into quite an interesting read...

Luke3107Would you be willing to accept a brainwashed sleeper agent? I can see someone making that into quite an interesting read...

Luke3107Was just curious. I've no intentions of doing such a thing myself. We've all seen my attempts at playing a regular villian lol

That said, there will most certainly be Thargoid^tm sympathisers I reckon

Stryker AuneThe point I was trying to make with the quote. "A terrible waste of space...." Was simply this. It's not justification for inserting non-lore home brew alien races and expecting everyone to just choke it down because, the galaxy is such a large place. That is why I used Fermi's paradox, a statistical justification using Drake's equation to "show" that earth should have received or found evidence of intelligent life out in the cosmos by now, but we haven't. So where is everybody? And the short answer is this. There isn't any. (Or so rare that we will won't see it). Now I'm not saying this is true. It's a theorem, and how I justify the lack of other intelligent life in the ED universe, save the up comming introduction of the Thargoids.