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Post by Moonfire on Jan 23, 2010 19:14:54 GMT -5
*coughs* Well this is my first addition to the New Ideas Board, so bear with me here and do be gentle.
Right now we're in the thick of a war against Cain (as usual). But once this war is over and the Good/Bad Guys win and everything calms down, what do we do then? Just wait a month or so later and start back up? Well, I propose we do something a little different.
On a site I once moderated a few years back we did a Time Skip, where we flashed forwarded everything on the site 20 years into the future. We got to see our old characters and saw who settled down and had children, who went insane, how they grew and changed. We also got new characters out of it.
Wouldn't it be fun to see Drake's kid terrorizing the galaxy as a binge drinking adult? Or Moonfire as a wiser, older Jedi Master? To be able to start a kind of generational family tree with some of these characters, I think that would be great.
We'd also have new characters that appeared out of no where like we do now, and we'd have our old charries only more experienced and in some cases, more mature.
Just an idea that would definitely need fine tuning and such before put into use, but something for everyone to mull over for a bit.
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Jan 23, 2010 19:20:32 GMT -5
^ have zilfer the exact same way he looks 20 years ago, but now going into his 70s? lol.
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Post by Odan Thos on Jan 23, 2010 19:21:19 GMT -5
I am just going to say, I don't like this idea...
First off, we just got a new characters, and we have yet to even explore what they are like.
Second if people all jump like twenty year, they would all be in their 40's to 50's. I am not sure if their are people willing to have their characters get that old. (Or I am sure a lot would simple create the children of their characters). And we will be in the same boat as before just with a lot of new character to approve (Again).
Thirdly. We would need to determine what happen in those years skipped. Do Sith run and hide. Do some escape only to spread terror. Or do the Jedi fall apart. What happens to the mandalorians, the Federation, the Empire and the Mercinaries of the Galaxy.
I don't think our site structure is really valid for a time jump... But that is just me.
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Post by Moonfire on Jan 23, 2010 19:24:25 GMT -5
You've got a valid argument Odan, though it doesn't quite have to be 20 years, it could even something along the lines of 4-5 years. And, as I stated before, it would have to be thought out a lot more before hand, I'm merely posting this as a suggestion, something to think about. I don't expect it to go into effect any time soon. Everything is up for discussion.
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Post by Ragasaurus-Rex on Jan 23, 2010 19:25:12 GMT -5
I like it, Though twenty years seems like a lot and i don't think that's how far you were suggesting but i can see somewhere from 2-10 even. I'd like to see what the other admins say before i throw out a idea or two i have about how this might be done.
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Jan 23, 2010 19:35:26 GMT -5
WEll this will be like all the other stuff. Our lives aren't along the same lines, zilfer as i said ins already in his 50's life wise. And Jor is how old compared to Zilfer? I'm sure there are plenty of age discrepancies.
And no, Gall doesn't have a point because the new characters could come into play after the time skip. Also, again it will only apply to those who want it to apply to them. All the others can just pull a mik and say screw you, my guys stayin what he is.
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Post by Lord Xion on Jan 23, 2010 19:38:18 GMT -5
Personally i actually like the idea, however what will happen to our character structure? will all of our old characters become npcs while we get three extra new charris? or will we have 6 characters? maybe even mix it up and keep some of our old characters and get a new one, but then what will happen to our old PCs?
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Jan 23, 2010 19:42:36 GMT -5
I think she meant keep our old characters as PC's.
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Post by Ragasaurus-Rex on Jan 23, 2010 19:42:41 GMT -5
I don't think anything was said about giving new character spots out, Only that ifthis does happen people might what new, Young, Characters, Why i don't know age shows wisdom and gives a character history to build upon.
I think i cleared up something with this post, Or maybe I've just made myself confused lol
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Post by MikDaTv on Jan 23, 2010 19:49:48 GMT -5
This is why i suggested we make sure the war between good guys and bad guys doesn't end.
i mean, yes, we could kill/capture/incopacitate cain and the empire would be disbanded and we'd have the republic back again but to what end? we've done that at least 3 or 4 times already.
i suggest we have a war go between the Federation and the Empire but neither side ever really defeats the other. sure one side might get close every now and then, but something always turns the tide.
that way, when everyone does get sick of this system, we can have a no holds bar battle between good and evil, winner takes all.
it doesn't even have to be a all out war. it could be a cold war. The federation won't attack the empire becuase of their principles and the empire won't attack the Federation because we all know they're scardycats. Battles could be little things. Covert little actions on each others soil out of the eyes of the public.
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Jan 23, 2010 19:51:37 GMT -5
Cain will never settle for half the galaxy mik, this you should know.
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Post by Lord Xion on Jan 23, 2010 20:01:44 GMT -5
what i was trying(and failing) to say was, that what if we don't want our characters to be time skipped?
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Jan 23, 2010 20:03:07 GMT -5
then they wont be. You just choose tohave them exempt, if everyone wants to do this idea, i mean theres nothing that stops you personally from having a time skip whenever you want too.
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Post by Lord Xion on Jan 23, 2010 20:10:00 GMT -5
then thats a pretty nice concept...
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Post by Ragasaurus-Rex on Jan 23, 2010 21:37:50 GMT -5
I personal time skipped my characters ages up by like a year each after, Get this, a year lol nothing is preventing such actions, There's no rule to date against it so yeah people will just be like. "Wow i swear you look years younger yesterday." lol
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