(05-19-2020, 10:10 PM)Megaera Wrote: Stop deleting stuff for no reason other than some people not liking the faction. Maybe you don't like the faction, but others do.
I like the faction. I'm not asking for it to be deleted either. I just think it could find a much better, more integral, and more relevant purpose as a pure PvE/NPC entity.
changing alive RP/PVP players for NPC/PVE? Urgh. Thanks. no.
Missions and events are absolutely both part of the RP environment and valid for RP interactions. Also, you're kind of forgetting that the recent PvE changes have pushed the player count past 100 at peak times now. Don't write it off.
(05-19-2020, 10:45 PM)Dave Synk Wrote: It's so funny and sad when you see some people being completely out of the rail of this topic/debate and lack any solid arguments to hold their positions, they rather just act defensive.
Smh.
Yeah... people accusing me of ooRP or that there's a personal element to this... do you know that since I've been here I've been in pretty much all the AI Official factions, and the HC of one? Also, methinks people aren't properly reading the OP as I'm not suggesting to delete the faction, only to repurpose it. Quit the hysteria please, it's eye-rolling, and above all else not constructive.
For the people saying that they do play AI characters or think the faction should remain as is - do you have any ideas whatsoever for what could be done to renew interest in this concept? I guess I'm kind of seeing what happened with LWB: lots of fuss being kicked up over its removal, yet no one coming forward with ideas for how the faction could continue (that's not to say I don't think it was a crime to remove a vanilla faction from the mod, but on the contrary, AI were an easter egg). This proposal is just a means to give AI at least some relevance in a universe they have largely been completely forgotten in and left with shapeless, undefined lore.
And once again, with those who have given examples of characters here, I can't help but feel they have very little relation to what is at least understandable about the [b]Gammu[b] Artifical Intelligence faction. Which in that case, surely a generic AI ID could allow room for such RP still. Gammu AI =! AI.
(05-19-2020, 05:44 PM)Laz Wrote: Given my own experience within the AI in Disco, it would probably be for the best. Everyone thinks they did it best and everyone made it overlay complicated. I tried my best to simplify AI lore where I could and give room to allow freedom within the faction, but it was still met with mixed eyes. AI is too 'abstract' for lack of a better term to be played correctly in my eyes and would probably be better off used as a plot device.
This is the man who created and ran the last official AI faction Discovery had.