Crystal Dragon

February 21

THANK YOU! SERIOUSLY THANK YOU FOR ALL THE HARD WORK!

February 17

Congrats to all the wonderful winners, it's wonderful to see such diversity and brilliant designs in costuming choices!

February 17

30 minutes ago, Brand Echh said:

I want to express so many thanks to CoH Pride, The Wild Cards, Scions of Everlasting, Chaos United, Club Kyabakura, @Crystal Dragon, @Tanklet and SO SO many others.

They pooled together over TWO BILLION influence to help fund these two CCs and bring so much more unity to the community. There were people who HATED this idea, and even harassed me, OOC, on discord and ingame for suggesting it. So many came out of the woodwork to "debate me". There was no debate, because there was no discussion.

I cannot express the proper amount of gratitude to everyone who showed up to participate and support this.

On December 3rd, 1976, two days before "Smile Jamaica", a free concert organized to ease tensions between warring political groups, Bob Marley, his wife, and manager were wounded in an assault by unknown gunmen outside of Marley's home. Bob Marley went on to perform as scheduled, and when asked why, considering it had only been two days since he was attacked, he replied with this fantastic quote that I will end this thread on:

"The people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?"

We love all people, no matter where they came from, or what they look like. I am very glad that you were able to continue to do this Brand, reach out to us if you ever need a hand or support for anything at all. We share this little corner of the digital world, and it's only right we help each other out and support each other.

February 11

Get well soon Brand! Rest in the meantime friend.

February 8

Copy pasta from the HC and CoRP Discord servers.

A quick heads up for RP beginners interested and vets that wish to join us this weekend. We'll be hosting over in Gardens-18790 Pagoda Garden's this weekends session starting Friday evening at around 5PM EST. We may kick off a bit later at 5:30PM EST depending on how many shows up and events ongoing on the server, feel free to fly around and explore before hand! I will not be clocking a time for when we wrap things up for the first session, so this may be a late run session night so grab your notes and lists of questions and drop on by Friday night!

February 8

If I'm in a public space and alone, I tend to sort of listen in for openings to join the conversations. I'm very much turn-based in mindset in regards to RP and likes to give everyone a chance to talk and share their story, even in small bits. I do tend to mirror-post in reply length to avoid overwhelming players that are inexperienced with multiparagraph roleplayers. But we do exist! We're kind of wide spread on the server but we do exist. 🙂

February 8

Hi, I wrote a quick popmenu macro for Chat Ranges a while back and have it up on Michiyo's modder library for anyone to use. 🙂

February 7

2 hours ago, Cyrickain13 said:

I post on here with stories and "roleplay's" that I find interesting. it wasn't like before that if you waiting 24 hours you almost had too many post to read to get out your part.

I remember an open RP that was like a "Super Hero High" based of sky-high. That was an amazing "RP" that was consistently and constantly having people join and play along.

Know you post in here and 3-4 days later someone might reply....

I'm a bit of a daily haunt. When I get some rest I'll probably end up opening up something for an RP thread, but it's nice to know there's other players that do forum RP as well.

February 7

2 minutes ago, Frozen Burn said:

You put this in the RP section of the forums, so your data will be biased. You'll get mostly RP'ers who frequent here which will sway your final tally to say "yes" mostly. Most people who do not RP do not even look at this section and wouldn't even see your post to vote "no" - so you're not going to capture accurate data from them, and thus not get a true comparison.

But if all you want is to capture who frequents this section and RPs... you're all good. But just wanted to warn you in case not. 🙂

That's what I hope, if folks can let me know where they RP if not in game, that would be cool too but not a hard line ask. ^^

February 7

Just now, Magairlín said:

I think they mean "who RPs in game vs somewhere else (especially the forums)".

Yes, thank you! Brainworks are NOT well oiled this morning, I need more coffee...*eye twitches*

February 7

I just want to get a general idea of how many of us actively RP in the game, and if not, where else? Forums, discord, whichever!

February 7

Just kind of checking to see who all checks the boards and getting a count of how many of us still lurk here and pay attention to the boards.

February 6

Sometimes the simplest actions can lead to a slew of RP happening.

A player stopping just short of joining a group talking could indicate shyness, hesitation, before speaking for themselves. _{(Yes yes, this is in reference to last nights Workshop, thank you for stopping by with that, really helped with the discussion actually.)}

A player shifting in their seat to get comfortable.

Even just the animation of drinking and eating can lead to a bit of RP happening.

What matters is the location, who's there, and how you conduct yourself as a character in those spaces. Raising a ruckus in public spaces tends to lead to a lot of backlash, but muttering under breath about some minor inconvenience, or reflection of the day ahead or past can open a whole lotta doors. It's not always about making the RP happen but rather leaving the door cracked open to let folks engage. The less busy your character appears to be, the more interactive opportunity you yield.

February 4

February 4

I tried to get as many shots as I could of the participants, what a great crowd! I had a blast helping out. 🙂

February 4

Tonights lessons with @McSpazz blew my mind. I hadn't expected to many to show up, thank you all for coming out to help and guide the new players, we very much appreciate the assistance! We have a couple more scheduled for tomorrow and monday is an open floor workshop to help anyone in need of figuring out a description for their bio, or further discussions about roleplaying that you might have missed in the prior two sessions this weekend. So damned proud of Everlasting right now, yall keep on being awesome folks!

February 1

21 minutes ago, GM Crumpet said:

I wake in a cold sweat worrying it'll all go horribly wrong and I'll log in and find the implementation went wrong and all my funny and silly names got wiped and I'm left with 80 characters called generic<number> 😛

Which can't happen as we do make backups before any big changes in case we need to do a rollback. The biggest mess up was years ago when somehow the patch went live and all the floors in Atlas had vanished 🙂

I am hoping that the release is implemented smoothly. I do have some duplicate characters on a second account I use for rping multicharacter scenes with friends that I hadn't leveled (And I really should just to secure the names for good on that account.) so I get the worry about the alts getting genericed. Not to mention I have a third account coming in with Victory merging. No characters on that account yet, but I have some ideas.

January 31

I am thoroughly intrigued, I read the original book and am a bit of a fan of the radio show and the musical versions of the retelling. If you don't know Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds YOU MUST LISTEN TO IT AT LEAST ONCE!

But uhhhh yeah, wishlisted to follow developer updates and DEFINITELY going to try to get in on early access as soon as play testing becomes available! :3

January 30

O_O I got the happy-goosebumps going watching these clips, ...are they looking for play testers yet?

January 30

Well, since someones decided alternative name choices are a "bad idea" I guess I get to drop these links to help those seeking a unique, and meaningful name for themselves.

https://www.thesaurus.com/

https://translate.google.com/ (Most, not all languages do translate well into character names on here.)

https://www.fantasytranslator.com/ (For the elvish, dwarvish, and common word searches.)

List of D&D related language translators via D&D beyond forums

https://www.vulgarlang.com/ (Or you can create your own language.)

Another I'd like to share is lingojam, there's thousands of language translators on there for name choices to pick from. There is no harm in searching around for workable solutions to naming a character, and these are the ones I tend to use personally. 48 characters, and only maybe two handfuls of those characters are named in english. Go ham with it, seriously. There's some great translators out there for helping break down the name crunch issue.

January 26

18 minutes ago, PatternGhost said:

Wrong. It doesn't matter if you put two more underlines on that statement and make it all caps. WoW releases names after an account has been inactive for two expansions, and has gone through quite a few name release cycles over the years. If you log the account in, even on a low level on an unsubbed account, you keep your names for the entire account.

Must be a new policy enacted that was after I left the game. All of my characters on it still have their names and still hadn't been touched. I hadn't even so much as installed or play wow since 2014.

January 26

I've done a bit of tooling with Bing over the last few months, and played around with Pilot's preview to try and teach it how to create dragon-kin type characters without making them anthropomorphic. I'd copy and paste the prompts that led to these results but the conversation gives a way too much details about the tirikan characters I and my husband both play and I'd like to keep that private for roleplay player canon reasons. But these two, were the best results of the discussion that guided the AI in relation to the tirikan and what the males may look like.

January 26

Well just to give my own two cents to this.

The idea of using the Auction house to trade names would be good easily exploited by people that currently collect unique names. Sorry but bad idea.
Notifications to current playing accounts for a name request release isn't too bad of an idea but this would fall flat with those that have left the game entirely and abandoned their accounts so the impact of such might not be as big of a change for name releases as one might think.
Lengthening the name character field MIGHT help significantly but we would run into this same problem later down the line.
I like the idea about gifting a badge to those that do release a name. I can imagine a number of players having qualified for this but I don't know if the devs would want to put that much work into it. What would be the qualifiers? Especially if the name was released from one player, to another through calm request in private chats?
That last one, "The" being part of the name, I like that, it would be nice to see that as an option but I'm unsure if such can be done.

To note, I played wow from 2008 until 2014. The naming policy on wow does not have a name release feature nor does it do naming purges of inactive accounts. I still have the names of my old characters on my abandoned unsubscribed account to this day. However there are millions of ways to name a character that doesn't require the English language, and alternate spellings are also a good option to pursue to find a name for a character that's unique and specific for that character. The naming release feature here isn't implemented yet but the name warnings are, to keep down name hoarding from happening. (Which I do think it should be made active once the de-tangled noodle codes have been worked out.) As someone that's played here since 2019 and was a live player as well, I'd just recommend this: Get creative, check out other language translations for the name you wish to use, don't be shy about using alternative words or terms in the thesaurus, you might be surprised with what alternative choices you might find.

January 25

When it comes down to player absences, I tend to background the characters, or put them to work with something else to keep them from just getting rusty as a character personality. I find it really helps with making that absence a little easier to manage for the characters and gives my partner players a chance to figure out a story for their characters reason for the absence as well. I tend to play a lot of different character personalities so each one of them have a different day-job, role, and behavior in regards to how they manage the absence of their partners but it seems to work out quite well. Sometimes we find time to RP on discord, but I don't push it because I know schedules can be packed during holidays and seasonal sales for the folks that are in retail for their offline jobs.

January 23

2 hours ago, Falling Stargazer said:

Thanks for the reply @Crystal Dragon, that base list will help me a lot especially.

Another question occurs, I've joined the RP and OOC channels inworld but they appear to be more or less abandoned. Are there other chat channels in use in present day for seeking out across the game for people who want to collaborate? It would make things easier being able to just work on solo content but have feelers going somewhere in game.

At the moment there is no active global channel promoted, but this may change in the near future. For the most part folks organize outside of game in the discord groups for HC and CoRP both for events, as well as SG group discords. I do know that there's lots and lots of RP team and mission runs announced in LFG on Everlasting that anyone can join.

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