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Individual RP, not nations or empires or any of that, just one player one character.

I was thinking about starting a new RP that maybe we could have 4 different groups of players (who are individuals, not nations) Now, everyone would be put into one of the four groups. The groups could name themselves anything they would like: 'The Corporate Collective' the 'Red Hawks' I dont really care as long as we have four very distinct groups.

Now, then the groups would all be fighting against each other in one way or another (I need ideas to create conflict between the groups). Then we could just all play in our groups and RP what the conflict is offering.

Now I need help with another thing too (as you can see this RP needs quite a bit of work yet) but that is I need to know a very important thing before we can start taking applicants: should this be futuristic as in each group has a planet? or should it be set in the past tech where each group has a large plot of land?

I want good arguments for or against this, I dont want you just to say that you want one or the other.

THIS IS NOT A SIGN UP THREAD - THIS IS A BUILDING THREAD
We are in the process of building this RP right now, soon I will get a sign up going, but right now I dont really have anything for people to sign up for. Please let me know.

Any thoughts or ideas would help greatly, I am an experienced RPer but I just dont know how to go about putting my idea (the group concept) into motion properly.

Thank you all.

The main question that needs to be answered is what are they fighting over?

Here are some suggestions...

Land
Honour & Prestige
An artifact of immense power
A certain resource (like Spice in Dune)
Old traditional rivalries(that people have forgotten the original schism)

All of these can fit well into any Tech level, and the Tech level would help define the details in FT these could be... Land... would actually be a whole planet... Honour & Prestige... maybe the biggest, baddest, best Spaceship.... An Artifact of Immense Power... A really powerful and long range weapon that can be mounted on Space-ships. Resource could be the source of the Spaceships power... Old Traditional rivalries.. well these are the same no matter what tech-level

Just some suggestions and examples. Hope this helps

Yea that helps a lot, I agree that what they are fighting over should be a as big a question as what era it is. I like those ideas, and would love to hear more and maybe even flesh out those there, but all I know is that I want the thing they are fighting over to be constant. I was thinking about having one group hold some sort of honorary position like 'Emperor' or something, that way the groups would fight for that position...

Let me know any other thoughts, I hope this blossums into something really fun! And thank you for commenting!

Like I said, very open to ideas and thoughts. /bump

I was hoping that I wouldnt have to bump this too much, but then again this is the NS forums and every topic needs bumps... so if anyone has any thoughts let me know! Post here please!

/bump

:) /bump ;)

OK. What if I made it something like this... (seeing as I have no other input at the moment) It will be set in the medievil era. No magic or any of that jazz as it would only serve to complicate things.

Each group gets a large plot of land. In that land their are a set number of major cities in which the group controls. The group gets 1-2 military points per city. Those points can go to building military strength and other things. Each group can invade others and take cities away, but it must be thoroughly RPed and the grace of the GM must say the battle went one way or the other.

Then, between all the groups is one city in which the Emperor resides. Whoever controls that city, the Emeperor gives loyalty to, and therefore we have the thing (or one of the things) for conflict.

What does anyone think?

I would be a little bit interested if it was a futuristic setting. Why not have one nation controlling several characters all in one group, I find that in RP's where there are alot of people relying on others to post things happen, and it can take a long time to get anywhere.

Although I understand the logic involved, I really want to know if we could run a successful RP with just individuals..

Although I understand the logic involved, I really want to know if we could run a successful RP with just individuals..
It's possible, but it could fall apart pretty easily. You get people that wait on other people to post, and then they get frustrated and leave and then the person comes back and they wait for a response, it goes slow and it's easier to have one person RP'ing as several people that interact with each other and then their group interacts with another group.

Would you suspect that it would work better if I created an outside forum specificly for this sort of thing? Do you think I would face the same problems as far as what you just brought up?

-Thank you for taking the time to place your input, it is appreciated.

Would you suspect that it would work better if I created an outside forum specificly for this sort of thing? Do you think I would face the same problems as far as what you just brought up?

-Thank you for taking the time to place your input, it is appreciated.
I'm not sure, I think it would really depend more on the people, you would need people who are going to be reliable.

If I were to try to set one up, an alternate forum I mean, what would you tell me to do or what could I do to get enough people and get good people for it?

If I were to try to set one up, an alternate forum I mean, what would you tell me to do or what could I do to get enough people and get good people for it?
the problem with off site forums is they usually remain pretty small if they are user created, and they are harder to remember to go to. Staying on the forum would probably be better. Although an ofsite forum has the advantage you could get offsite people to join. You would have to search for people though. Also people on NS will be kind of wary of an RP someone as relatively new as yourself posts, and even less likely to join in an offsite forum.

I am actually quite skilled in RPing, just not here on NS. I posted this thread here in order to get some ideas as to how to set THIS one up. Where do you think I would go in order to find people willing to do something like this?

Thanks for the help again.

I am actually quite skilled in RPing, just not here on NS. I posted this thread here in order to get some ideas as to how to set THIS one up. Where do you think I would go in order to find people willing to do something like this?

Thanks for the help again.
Well, II is a bit more oriented towards large scale RP's involving nations, so perhaps trying NS would yield more results.

Well, II is a bit more oriented towards large scale RP's involving nations, so perhaps trying NS would yield more results.

Isnt this NationStates right here? And you guys would have any idea where I could bring this idea (anywhere) where it would be more well recieved? It appears no one gives two hoots here... :(

Isnt this NationStates right here? And you guys would have any idea where I could bring this idea (anywhere) where it would be more well recieved? It appears no one gives two hoots here... :(
Theres two nationstates forums, the main one, and then the RP one. On this thread if you go to the top that looks like this

jolt.co.uk public forums > Massive Multiplayer Online Games > NationStates > International Incidents

Although now that I look at the link, I notice that it has been moved to NS, or perhaps I was completely wrong and you had it right all along.

Yea I posted it here because I figured people in II would be more into their own things, and I also thought that NS was for OOC threads... but I suppose still no one but you and I have cared enough about this idea to post! :( ;)

Yea I posted it here because I figured people in II would be more into their own things, and I also thought that NS was for OOC threads... but I suppose still no one but you and I have cared enough about this idea to post! :( ;)Or perhaps most of the People in II are more geared towards national RP's, and I prefer character RP's, I just happen to jump back and forth between the two.