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Sun Nov 04, 2007 3:38 am

Alpha Stalker wrote:Can anyone help me compile data on Windcharger? I would like to RP him.

Thank you in advance.

I made a profile for him a while back, I've PM'd it to you
If any mod wants to look at it, I'll send you a copy

Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:34 am

Depthscream wrote:
The J Writer wrote:
Depthscream wrote:My first character has just been accepted, he is rank 5, a Decepticon scout and is supposed to start in Polyhex.
Any ideas on how I could start him off?

Have him start in Kaon instead. He can report to Scourge, who should have a little task for him.

Okay.

Does Devastron need to be PM'd about Swiftscreech being in Kaon instead? Dev was the one who approved Swiftscreech.

Nope, no need to inform me. Start him in Kaon.

Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:00 am

Devastron wrote:
Depthscream wrote:
The J Writer wrote:
Depthscream wrote:My first character has just been accepted, he is rank 5, a Decepticon scout and is supposed to start in Polyhex.
Any ideas on how I could start him off?

Have him start in Kaon instead. He can report to Scourge, who should have a little task for him.

Okay.

Does Devastron need to be PM'd about Swiftscreech being in Kaon instead? Dev was the one who approved Swiftscreech.

Nope, no need to inform me. Start him in Kaon.

Yes sir!

Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:07 pm

Last call for Scrapper samples. If no one else is interested, I'll go ahead and look over what's been posted for him and make a decision by the end of Monday, November 5th.

As for whether Mixmaster, Scavenger, and Bonecrusher would remain mod NPCs, I'm leaning toward no. I have no problem with Scrapper's player NPCing them for the time being. Hopefully, others would pick them up (they're good, interesting canon characters), but until then, the team leader Scrapper would be able to NPC them as needed.

News Credits: 1 · Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:35 pm

The J Writer wrote:Last call for Scrapper samples. If no one else is interested, I'll go ahead and look over what's been posted for him and make a decision by the end of Monday, November 5th.

As for whether Mixmaster, Scavenger, and Bonecrusher would remain mod NPCs, I'm leaning toward no. I have no problem with Scrapper's player NPCing them for the time being. Hopefully, others would pick them up (they're good, interesting canon characters), but until then, the team leader Scrapper would be able to NPC them as needed.

I'm interested in Scavenger. If I were to apply for him is there anything I should know first like the kind of role you'd expect him to play in the Decepticon forces and how much (if any) authority he has?

Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:55 pm

The Chaos Bringer wrote:I'm interested in Scavenger. If I were to apply for him is there anything I should know first like the kind of role you'd expect him to play in the Decepticon forces and how much (if any) authority he has?

I get most of my info from the Teletran 1 wiki and from TFU.info. It lists Scavenger as rank 4, which is lower than average: He'd rank somewhere on the scale of an army auxiliary technician. But the same site also lists Scrapper as rank 5, which the mods here boosted to rank 7 on the Canon Profiles thread. So it might be possible they'd change it.

In any case, I beleive you'd be working under Scrappers direct command, unless he was countermanded by someone of higher rank than Scrapper.

I have another question for the mods: Who would have the authority to trigger the Merge into Devestator? Would Scrapper be allowed to do it or would the team have to be commanded to do so by the ranking decepticon on the field? I'm also slightly curious as to the mod's imagined system for controlling Devestator, I see vague images of flurries of PMs from all PC components sent to a controlling mod, but I can leave it as a question for another day.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:53 pm

FuzzymusPrime wrote:
The Chaos Bringer wrote:I'm interested in Scavenger. If I were to apply for him is there anything I should know first like the kind of role you'd expect him to play in the Decepticon forces and how much (if any) authority he has?

I get most of my info from the Teletran 1 wiki and from TFU.info. It lists Scavenger as rank 4, which is lower than average: He'd rank somewhere on the scale of an army auxiliary technician. But the same site also lists Scrapper as rank 5, which the mods here boosted to rank 7 on the Canon Profiles thread. So it might be possible they'd change it.

In any case, I beleive you'd be working under Scrappers direct command, unless he was countermanded by someone of higher rank than Scrapper.

I have another question for the mods: Who would have the authority to trigger the Merge into Devestator? Would Scrapper be allowed to do it or would the team have to be commanded to do so by the ranking decepticon on the field? I'm also slightly curious as to the mod's imagined system for controlling Devestator, I see vague images of flurries of PMs from all PC components sent to a controlling mod, but I can leave it as a question for another day.

I never thought of that. That is an interesting problem. Maybe direct control could rotate among those who control the constructicons. It would be fair, but would require a lot of PMing. Or maybe direct control could be given to whoever says "Constructicons UNITE!" which would give that authority to all members.
And I wouldn't mind taking orders from Scrapper at all. It would be a small price to pay for controling such an interesting character.

Mon Nov 05, 2007 10:42 pm

The mods have been fairly wise in taking all the truly powerful characters for themselves, allowing them to be used in storyline-defining ways rather than have them simply run rampant racking up kills. I don't see why it would be different for the Gestalts: The only major difference is that the Gestalts aren't commanders on top of being the heaviest units.

Even if they did delegate to one of the PCs forming the Gestalt, that one guy has essentially been given control of 4-5 other peoples characters, so the mods should be allowed to invoke energon limits and similar time constraints on the Gestalts.

Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:15 pm

FuzzymusPrime wrote:
The Chaos Bringer wrote:I'm interested in Scavenger. If I were to apply for him is there anything I should know first like the kind of role you'd expect him to play in the Decepticon forces and how much (if any) authority he has?

I get most of my info from the Teletran 1 wiki and from TFU.info. It lists Scavenger as rank 4, which is lower than average: He'd rank somewhere on the scale of an army auxiliary technician. But the same site also lists Scrapper as rank 5, which the mods here boosted to rank 7 on the Canon Profiles thread. So it might be possible they'd change it.

In any case, I beleive you'd be working under Scrappers direct command, unless he was countermanded by someone of higher rank than Scrapper.

I have another question for the mods: Who would have the authority to trigger the Merge into Devestator? Would Scrapper be allowed to do it or would the team have to be commanded to do so by the ranking decepticon on the field? I'm also slightly curious as to the mod's imagined system for controlling Devestator, I see vague images of flurries of PMs from all PC components sent to a controlling mod, but I can leave it as a question for another day.

Scavenger is fairly lowly in his own little junk-hunting, puppy-dog way, but a Constructicon nonetheless and thus something of the tech elite of the 'Cons. He'd be treated the same as anyone else of middling Rank. I believe we made him Rank 5 last time he had a profile; not sure he's got one posted at the moment.

As for Devestator, due to his massively destructive and somewhat uncontrollable nature, he would rarely be formed except in rare cases. On top of that, it's likely someone other than Scrapper would give the order to merge (Megs, Scorp, whoever happened to be the general on the field). Otherwise, the call would be Scrapper's. He is the Constructicon leader.

Control of gestalts has always been a contested topic in this site's RPG. For a long time, whoever played the team leader controlled the gestalt. Of course, for a long time we also had a single player controlling all the members of a gestalt team (yikes!). Then, when we broke the teams up with a single character per player, we tried having a rotating sort of system, in which each player in the team took a turn writing a post. Very cool, if you had five people who all wrote well, read carefully, etc. etc. Not very cool if you had one or more significantly weaker/lazier/sloppier player in the bunch.

Comments, other mods/admins?

News Credits: 1 · Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:34 pm

(question answered in another thread)

Thu Nov 08, 2007 5:14 pm

I've got springer and I was wondering who are the bots in the wrecker team?

News Credits: 402 · Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:48 pm

*Silverblade wrote:I've got springer and I was wondering who are the bots in the wrecker team?

I should know, I used to play most of them.
Roadbuster
Whirl
Broadside
Sandstorm
Topspin
Twin Twist
Rack 'N Ruin
Impactor
Inferno

And others that are wreckers from the IDW-verse
Scoop
Pointblank
Crosshairs

I might pick up Rack 'n Ruin again if you ask nicely

Fri Nov 09, 2007 1:20 pm

Cool thanks

and some of those guys are in play now. This works out nicely.

Please *wink

Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:32 pm

The great Decepticon NPC sale continues...just in time for the holiday season!

I'm looking for someone to take on my other 'Con NPC, Astrotrain. When he's not transporting the Constructicons or fixing the anti-siege gun batteries in Polyhex, he's using his big fists to mash Autobots. Train, starship, all-around man about town...that's Astrotrain the Triplechanger!

Any takers? Just throw up a sample post in the App thread and I'll look them over and make a decision in the next couple of days.

Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:51 pm

The J Writer wrote:The great Decepticon NPC sale continues...just in time for the holiday season!

I'm looking for someone to take on my other 'Con NPC, Astrotrain. When he's not transporting the Constructicons or fixing the anti-siege gun batteries in Polyhex, he's using his big fists to mash Autobots. Train, starship, all-around man about town...that's Astrotrain the Triplechanger!

Any takers? Just throw up a sample post in the App thread and I'll look them over and make a decision in the next couple of days.

To add to this and the call for more Constructicons, on Decepticon front we are seeking active players for Combaticons Blast-Off and Vortex as well as Stunticons Breakdown and Drag Strip.

Also the seekers Skywarp and Thundercracker are in need of reliable players to give them a new home.

Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:22 am

And just to make it a perfectly balanced Sale's pitch, the Protectobots are one mechanism away from being truly complete. We are looking for a Groove. If you ever wondered what it would be like to be a be a robot that can transform into a motorcycle, and be a hippy then Groove is just right for you.

Cost: One application

Rewards: Being able to help bring about the end of the Decepticons with the power of a fully armed Defensor.

News Credits: 7 · Tue Nov 13, 2007 2:35 pm

Cryhavok wrote:
The J Writer wrote:The great Decepticon NPC sale continues...just in time for the holiday season!

I'm looking for someone to take on my other 'Con NPC, Astrotrain. When he's not transporting the Constructicons or fixing the anti-siege gun batteries in Polyhex, he's using his big fists to mash Autobots. Train, starship, all-around man about town...that's Astrotrain the Triplechanger!

Any takers? Just throw up a sample post in the App thread and I'll look them over and make a decision in the next couple of days.

To add to this and the call for more Constructicons, on Decepticon front we are seeking active players for Combaticons Blast-Off and Vortex as well as Stunticons Breakdown and Drag Strip.

Also the seekers Skywarp and Thundercracker are in need of reliable players to give them a new home.

Hm?

I may try for Skywarp, but I'm not sure yet... hm? :-?

Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:03 am

Name change from Unipuma to Rebel Raven.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:51 am

Just wanted to apology for my lack of posting, someone deluded me into thinking I had time but as if...

I will still try to scrape some time here and there, hoping not to stall too much when there's a need for Thrust's <cough> jolly outings.

Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:57 am

Alpha Strike wrote:And just to make it a perfectly balanced Sale's pitch, the Protectobots are one mechanism away from being truly complete. We are looking for a Groove. If you ever wondered what it would be like to be a be a robot that can transform into a motorcycle, and be a hippy then Groove is just right for you.

Cost: One application

Rewards: Being able to help bring about the end of the Decepticons with the power of a fully armed Defensor.

I would be Groove, but I started RPing my first character a couple of weeks ago. The mods would want me to do only one character for a while, to get the feel of the game or something like that.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Nov 19, 2007 8:45 pm

I've thinking about making my return to this rpg after some time off. Do I need to re-apply my fanmade character Blackstreak? I think the original application is still in there but if I need to re-submit I can do that too. :grin:

Tue Nov 20, 2007 5:13 pm

Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:53 am

Blackstreak wrote:I've thinking about making my return to this rpg after some time off. Do I need to re-apply my fanmade character Blackstreak? I think the original application is still in there but if I need to re-submit I can do that too.

If your fanmade is still posted in the profiles forum then you can pick him up again. If he isn't you'll need to reapply for him.