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RE: New Nomad RP - Lythrilux - 03-10-2013
What are you talking about? Nomads DO have a new RP.
It's called Internet/text speak:
Me: Nomad, why has such a great being such as yourself come here?
Indie Nomad: lol I dunno, I woz cuming here 2 shot sum stufff loool
Lythrilux was put out if action by YOLO.NOMAD
RE: New Nomad RP - ProwlerPC - 03-10-2013
Nomads tend to body snatch humans to do the talking. Rheinlanders were the first ones to experience this for those of you whom didn't play the campaign. Some were politicians sowing political chaos. A bunch of others was literally a full combat fleet as the Nomads themselves were shieldless squishy things with a mediocre defence to the metal warship of the humans. This fleet nearly ended Kusari if it weren't for the actions of Trent and Order agents in Rheinland taking out the infected Kanzler and mopping up. The fleet was recalled back to Rheinland to reinforce their uncovered brethren but were scattered by GMG in Sigmas and picked apart by Order and RFP when crossing into Rheinland. Portion of the fleet escaped and made it back to Omegas which are the Wilde we know today. Nomads never lost the ability to body snatch humans and it continues today. So yeah normal communication between Nomads and Humans is happening all the time. Just with an ominuous undertone to it.
RE: New Nomad RP - Agmen of Eladesor - 03-11-2013
(03-10-2013, 08:47 PM)Tel-Aviv Wrote:(03-10-2013, 08:41 PM)ProwlerPC Wrote: So file a report. Violating re-engagement rules doesn't require a specific ID or specific location. Happens all over Disco from time to time and gets dealt with if reported along with evidence to prove it's not bs.
I'll let someone else do that, too much effort
(03-10-2013, 08:54 PM)sindroms Wrote: Then don't whine about it if you cannot be bothered to at least pretend you are trying to help the situation at hand. Did you at least fix your fever?
Can I get someone to batch slip Tel-Aviv, please? Seriously, if you're going to make a punk comment - and then NOT do anything about it ... shut the frack up. You have given up your right to complain about it. End of story.
Damn, I hate it that I'm agreeing with Sindy ... oh, well, sometimes he's actually right ... (I know that's going to show up in a signature somewhere - like when I actually had to agree with Ryoken ... I blame Zelot for this happening.)
RE: New Nomad RP - SMGSterlin - 03-11-2013
Thought Tree was a K'Hara higher up, seeing as how he's so... Energized, regarding his stance on things,, and by his post here: http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=95301
Someone who isn't even a member of the K'Hara posting a big K'Hara thread in the K'Hara forum, what are the odds of that?
And no, I don't point out names, because while I may disagree and dislike how some people want to run their faction/ID, I'm respectable enough to not blatantly point fingers. I like to believe that people can disagree about things, and debate on it, without getting cutthroat and hostile with each other.
RE: New Nomad RP - Akura - 03-11-2013
The Nomads can speak however they like, way I see it.
***... Burden, unbecoming... mice and rice...***
Are echos in your head, a voice without sound, telepathic speech.
***..."Words come out to play"...***
Is a distinct and specific voice in your head, a real voice. Raspy? Empathetic? Calm? Angry? All up to the Nomad transmitting it.
Nomads don't have computerised comm units. Their comm units are their minds. Transmitted into yours as messages, or you ship's computer. The fractured pattern is the mistranslation between two races.
That's what I've always thought anyway.
(03-11-2013, 02:04 AM)SMGSterlin Wrote: Thought Tree was a K'Hara higher up, seeing as how he's so... Energized, regarding his stance on things,, and by his post here: http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=95301
Someone who isn't even a member of the K'Hara posting a big K'Hara thread in the K'Hara forum, what are the odds of that?
Treewyrm pretty much wrote 90% of the Nomad Lore, he is the brain behind the Discovery Nomads and the reason they weren't phased out of the mod or ignored. He also modded all the Nomad ships, stations and systems, including hand painting (I believe) the Nebulae in Omicron Iota.
RE: New Nomad RP - Alley - 03-11-2013
(03-11-2013, 02:04 AM)SMGSterlin Wrote: Thought Tree was a K'Hara higher up, seeing as how he's so... Energized, regarding his stance on things,, and by his post here: http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=95301
Someone who isn't even a member of the K'Hara posting a big K'Hara thread in the K'Hara forum, what are the odds of that?
And no, I don't point out names, because while I may disagree and dislike how some people want to run their faction/ID, I'm respectable enough to not blatantly point fingers. I like to believe that people can disagree about things, and debate on it, without getting cutthroat and hostile with each other.
You didn't even bother to do a minimum of research about what was going on and went straight to conclusions. Making threads seems to be something you can do, but using the search button is not?
You expect Treewyrm to waste his time with someone behaving like this?
RE: New Nomad RP - Treewyrm - 03-11-2013
(03-11-2013, 02:04 AM)SMGSterlin Wrote: Thought Tree was a K'Hara higher up, seeing as how he's so... Energized, regarding his stance on things,,I got strong opinions, that's true. People here will always have contradictory views on various subjects, and without a solid base there can be no faction, especially when its subject is a non-humanoid life form. For human factions you don't need to explain thing we all know already, nobody needs to provide human anatomy for Bowex or any other faction there really. Historically Discovery had only very few playable non-human factions, and most have died out, like Harvesters, it's a challenging environment to roleplay in because it's almost entirely human. Nomads are really the last ones left as well-known group and the only ones that were in the original game. Given all that happened and been through I'm obviously quite defensive of the work done so far.
(03-11-2013, 02:04 AM)SMGSterlin Wrote: Someone who isn't even a member of the K'Hara posting a big K'Hara thread in the K'Hara forum, what are the odds of that?Totally crazy, eh? Yet there you have it. Working with admins (Gheis and Jammie) and K'Hara on public nomads, based from the proposal me and several other Keepers wrote back in late 2011, it's proverbial torch was picked by HuggieSunrise after I left discovery at early 2012 and later continued by Alley, and now it's 2013 and I'm happy to see that long wait is over now and at long last nomads are public. What does conspiracy and tyrannical freak control fit in?
Changes might be necessary, like I mention in my first replies (before you went PITA with all that arguing): certain things sure are getting a little old. Not denying that. But let's be honest there - you suggestion was poorly thought and it's what I told you anyway and explained why so. But while changes can be made to the lore too there needs to be balance between how things works: how in-game RP is reflected in lore and vice-versa. When you work with material that already exists here for more than five years the approach must be careful enough not to screw things up. I mean you'll have tough luck to have gallic factions to drop their french origins because you'd want something else instead.
(03-11-2013, 02:04 AM)SMGSterlin Wrote: I like to believe that people can disagree about things, and debate on it, without getting cutthroat and hostile with each other.I would also like to believe you can do so without throwing blanket accusations and "consipraceh", alas.
p.s.: a minor correction for Dave's post: of nomad ships I made only VHF and bomber.
RE: New Nomad RP - Agmen of Eladesor - 03-11-2013
(03-11-2013, 02:04 AM)SMGSterlin Wrote: Thought Tree was a K'Hara higher up, seeing as how he's so... Energized, regarding his stance on things,, and by his post here: http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=95301
Someone who isn't even a member of the K'Hara posting a big K'Hara thread in the K'Hara forum, what are the odds of that?
And that particular comment right there completely lost you any possible credibility that you may have still retained.
Do you think it's any wonder why those of us who are in the K'Hara now aren't paying attention to what you're saying? Perhaps it's because you've now shown that you're completely ignorant of the Keepers, the K'Hara, and Disco lore.
I think there might be a rock over there in the corner for you to crawl back under and hide your face. I suggest you use it.
(No, I'm not being particularly nice. Stupid comments irritate me, and this one is incredibly stupid. If he's too damned lazy to do proper research into something, then he needs to just shut the hell up about it.)
RE: New Nomad RP - Haste - 03-11-2013
(03-10-2013, 06:39 PM)redfire912 Wrote: Aight, I do not know if this was posted already as I can't be arsed to browse through 6 pagina's, but whenever I have the luck to encounter some nice RP on my nomad instead of the typical omgnzuvnadshoot, I always talk in the other character's voice, example:
LSF-Big.Potato:Luke:This is Captain Luke Schweinerschruff of the Liberty Security Force, leave Omicron Iota or I will open fire !!
Me: ** Your own voice ** If you seek to confront me here, you have already failed.
Why ? Because we all know how nomads can play with human minds, right ? so if I can induce all those nasty visions and stuff and my speech is too advanced for human mind to fully comprehend, why can't I also use the subject's own mind as a radio ? I don't see why not.
In response to the bold part: I agree with you. Even if details like "syntax" might not be what I use, I believe Nomspeak is far more flexible than people here seem to think.
In most of my "good" RP encounters with people willing to go with my K'Hara character, I switch to a relatively human way of speaking (to gain the human's trust, for one) at some point. Examples include..
A vision-heavy "manipulation session" with a LR- player in California. I set up an "alternate reality" in which I showed the Rogue Navy personnel in a bar, and had my Nomad show up as a faceless human male if I recall correctly. It spoke in a fairly human way. The "clue" was "We share a common enemy, why not work together?"
I try to make my actual "nomspeak" (the ***"We" yadda yadda "yours"*** stuff) cryptic and/or poetic, but still understandable. However, if your character doesn't understand it, it's fine. If you don't understand it, you can always ask ooRP if you feel your character would. That, or I'm making it a little too complicated.
Nomads should feel alien. I don't feel they should be made more human-like. If anything they should be even more alien than they are often played out if you ask me. If you don't understand it, fine. It's a completely different life-form. Its psychology and physiology are drastically different from humans'.
Anyhow, before I started rambling, this is the point I was making: I think nomspeak is very flexible, and there are many ways to communicate. Confusing visions, poetic/symbolic/metaphoric speech, complex visions in which the Nomad appears fairly human.. They're all options.
RE: New Nomad RP - SMGSterlin - 03-12-2013
Well, the whole point of this thread was to open up a general discussing on possible other forums of RP for a Nomad, that didn't require the spamming of asterisks.. But then people started acting like "NOPE, NOMADS HAVE TO USE THINK-SPEAK", and that's how the discussion formed.
I'll admit, part of my argument was based off an assumption, and, well, when you assume...
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So allow me to apologize for that by saying "my bad".
And no, my suggestion wasn't the best, but that's why I opened this thread how I did, I was hoping other people could share some good ideas, because I didn't have any idea really.
So getting back on topic, does anyone have any suggestions on Nomad RP that doesn't involve the use of asterisks (***), or something besides "just shoot"?