Yay! More questions.

[Asta]

Good evening, I´m cruising around your website lately and wondering if you still accept new players. Because you seem like a nice community and I like the way you focus on character development and not on heavy statistics etc. So yeah, first of all I really like to know if you accept people from different countries. (Because time zones).


So here are a few (stupid) questions which concerned me the most. And I apologize if they have been asked before.


- How many years of experience would be needed? (If any) And well, are mistakes judged hard around here?


- Is it allowed to have an altmode with a custom paint job? (Like an extra written word on it? Or decals?) Or can they even resemble a canon characters altmode?


- What does fall into your category of “flashy”? (Exotic vehicles/Million Dollar Baby/Concept Cars etc.) Or well, better question would be: Where does the line start/end?


- Is it allowed to take some of earlier played events and put them into the characters history? (Example: something that happened to the character that changed his/hers personality/appearance/point of view, without any influence on the timeline or altering events/plots of course.)


- How many weapons are allowed per character? Is there a limit? (3 too much?)


- I saw you already had even “Outliers” on the board. (The special guys with abilities…) Are they considered “hard to pass” or are they okay as long as they are balanced of course?


Well, guess that´s it for now, just trying to weed out some ideas and things from my characters.

And last but not least ... “thank you”

[Zercon]

Greetings Asta,

First off thank you for your interest in the forum, and for taking the time to ask some good questions. However I must warn, I am a very talkative person so my replies are going to be a novel!

- We are accepting new players; we just require them to apply through E-Mail, and not through the forum itself, which is why that feature is blocked at the moment.

- Many of the founders were scattered about in differing time zones, so that is absolutely no problem whatsoever.

- There is no hard set 'You must have been RPing for __ years to qualify' rule, since we judge our players based on the quality of writing and not the number of notches they have on their belt. Because this is an intermediate to advanced forum, we expect players to have a decent grasp on RP in general, but we are not cruel monsters who will abolish people for making mistakes! We all make silly typos occasionally, and misread something.

- Custom paintjobs are more than ok. For example, Knock Out and Sideswipe both have patterns on their sides, and we have an OC here with décor on their wings. When it comes to looking like another cannon's alt-mode, it is kind of a case by case thing IMO. For example, there's only so many jets out there to pick from, there is going to be doubling up!

-I hate to give wishy washy answers, because I know how frustrating it can be for the one who asked, but there isn't really a hard set 'line' where something is TOO flashy or TOO out of line. A good baseline is to ask yourself... what are the chances you will ever stumble across seeing one of these in person? If the car is a one of a kind beauty that is millions of dollars, than chances are that won't really work too well.

- If I understand right, you mean storylines on the forums such as the truce? Yes you can reference them if you want! Some events may be skewed a tad as players have come and gone through the years, so just keep that in mind and don’t loop bind anyone into your character's history without asking first of course.

- Another wishy washy answer, I am sorry. If the weapons are like, a dagger, a pistol, and something else minimal, than there is no problem with such things, if the person is a powerhouse monster with a ton of strength, has a two hand mace, rocket launcher, and a machine gun, we are going to need some pretty heavy weaknesses to counter it. A good rule of thumb is that every strength you give your character you give a weakness to counter it. Make sure that someone like Bumblebee wouldn't be obliterated just by sneezing in your character's direction!

- We have had people come in and apply as outliers for their first character, but it took a lot of time and administration asking a lot of questions to try to figure out the logistics behind it. If you want to apply as such a thing, just be forewarned it can take longer to process, but it is something we consider. It is heavily dependent upon the trait you are reaching for.

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A good rule of thumb overall is to keep in mind is that everything is fluid here, and we look at the character as a whole and not just single attributes on its own. If your character is a one of a kind sports car hailed in from overseas with a custom paintjob, but is otherwise an average individual? That is much easier to process and balance, than the one of a kind sports car who is ALSO and outlier and ALSO has a ton of weapons and ALSO is as big as Optimus with a ton of strength. Then stuff starts to get crazy!

I hope this answers your questions. If you have any further ones, feel free to ask them here, or throw them up into the C-Box.