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Post by Kisuke Inori on Feb 27, 2010 22:14:15 GMT 1
One of first things I always look for when concerning characters and profiles are lists of each character in each organization. Like a list of Shinigami, which group they are in, division, who is a Captain, or the Hollows, like who is Espada, such as the Prima and so forth. Like the following: - Division 1
- Captain Such and Such
- Vice Captain
- Third Seat
- Fourth Seat
- etc.
The nice thing about lists is that people don't have to go through profiles one by one trying to find a specific person. It's one of the first things I look for to see who is who and know at least the very basic information of their rank, and see which ranks are taken up, such as Captains and so forth. I've looked around but I don't see one around here, so I'm wondering if it's somewhere I haven't looked, or if it's even here at all. It was mentioned somewhere that you were working on one, but I was wondering if you still are, or if I just haven't seen it yet.
My second concern is the accounts. I'm very use to the idea of having multiple characters on one account, that way there's an accurate statement about the amount of people actually in the site rather than just many accounts made by one person. The last time I checked, also, is that Proboards does not support the use of using the same email to make multiple accounts on one Proboard, and never intends to implement it into the database. I'm not sure if that's changed in the last while, but if it hasn't, do you intend to switch to using the same account instead of multiple accounts? I'm not exactly fond of the idea of using different emails just to create characters. I'm also not too keen about the idea of using multiple accounts, simply because it means you have to exit one account to go to another, plus I know I'm going to be confused trying to keep up with one person using two or three accounts. And it looks crowded in my opinion.
My third question is about the Vaizard. You have to be at Rank 9 to become one, but if you're interested in becoming one at some point, do you have to change at Rank 9 or can you wait until later on to do so?
EDIT: As an after-thought, concerning characters dying and stuff, if you absolutely do not want your character killed, them dying is only the right of the person who owns the character, right? Reason I'm asking is because I know for sure I don't want my first character dying. Him going up against a Rank 20 character isn't going to make sense anyway, but as far as anything else, only the owners have the right to have them die, right? How they don't is obviously on a case by case basis and really depends on what can be thought up, but essentially we do have this right, yes? |
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Post by Tou-chan on Feb 27, 2010 23:53:06 GMT 1
This is just for the matter of death you speak of--
Uhh, this is more of an opinion but here it goes. No, I don't agree with how you think on this. While yes a character should have some control as to wether their character dies. You can't just choose wether they die or not in a situation in which in-fact, they would die. You have the power to keep your character from dying though, you just keep yourself away from situations in which you could in-turn die. You always have this. if you don't want your character dead, you can't just join something where someone could kill you and say you don't want them dead and live. That'd be illogical, and also would be somewhat like making your character invincible. Many don't want their characters dead, as so, you avoid dangerous actions and places. You can most certainly avoid death if you are careful, but you just can't say you don't want a person dead and just reject death. If this happened, everybody on the site would be immortal, that would be of no value on this site since it's an action based forum. Death must be possible or there is no point. Everyone could get away with anything without any severe results. But overall, you do have the right to keep you character living, but you can't say "No, I want him/her alive so you can't kill him/her. Just use your brain to make them survive, if you do this your character won't die. People won't unreasonably attack someone, since ooc opinions can't affect post. So only in post can you cause a reason for somebody to want you dead, just avoid it and you'll be safe.
PS; as of what I know though, this is from site alone. You cannot be killed without permission unless you are in a death enabled thread. So don't join one of those and you'll be safe. (Most events are death enabled as well). But you can receive injuries in any thread and cannot say this won't happen. Like you can loose maybe a finger or get a few cuts in an everyday thread. Large scale injuries are debatable though, you can ask staffs for more specifics as to how great the injuries in a normal thread can be but overall, just avoid situations where you can be attacked or killed and your character will live. [/blockquote] |
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Post by Kisuke Inori on Feb 28, 2010 0:29:33 GMT 1
I agree of course that logically speaking, no one can live forever. I'm just more concerned that if I want to avoid his death, his death won't be forced on. Like if an Espada suddenly decided to show up and kill everyone in an area, of which he'd be in. I just want to know that in situations like that, where it's sudden, I at least have the option of saying I want him to live and get out of there. If I choose to fight, I can't blame anyone if he dies then, only myself. I just want to know that I have that option. |
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Post by Flementine on Feb 28, 2010 0:44:45 GMT 1
[/blockquote]You can't be killed by that, because if you were there first, it's not death enabled like Tou said. But also, that'd be out of character as well, Espada don't randomly decide to kill, they are more organized. But yes, if something like that happened. You have the choice to keep your character alive. [/size][/blockquote]
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Post by Kisuke Inori on Feb 28, 2010 1:06:40 GMT 1
[/blockquote]You can't be killed by that, because if you were there first, it's not death enabled like Tou said. But also, that'd be out of character as well, Espada don't randomly decide to kill, they are more organized. But yes, if something like that happened. You have the choice to keep your character alive. [/size][/blockquote][/quote] Well...I wouldn't say that about every Espada XP ~points at Grim~
But anyway, thanks for answering =) Now I just need to wait for the admins to answer to the others... |
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Post by Naka on Feb 28, 2010 21:41:06 GMT 1
I am not an Admin, but I can answer all of your questions in a manner which will most likely be confirmed by staff.
1. There is no such list because we have nobody on this site that is yet capable of gaining positions like Captain, and Vice Captain. I believe there is some list about the Espada, just for RP purposes, but other then that, no.
2. This forum uses one character per account period. Anything else would be far too confusing, and I am not even sure I understand what you are trying to say to the contrary because it doesn't make since in the slightest. We don't really care about whatever proboards rules you are trying to talk about, and honestly proboards doesn't3. care in the slightest about that issue. (I run several of my own forums hosted by proboards, so I know)
3. Admin is the only one who can answer this question for sure, but I think getting vizard later should at least be possible.
4. Actually, all of the people that posted above are at least partially incorrect. As of right now, every thread in this forum is death enabled, and I do not think it is possible to label as thread as NDE. Which means you can die anywhere. (People above were probably confusing this with another site, which it is not) Now generally people are nice and will not just kill you for no reason, and also killing newbies is frowned upon and hurts your chances to go for things like Vizard. However, do do not have control over whether your character lives or dies, Staff does. Your skill and ability to battle RP will largely determine how well you can defend yourself, with a lesser focus on comparing character stats, but ultimatly death is determined by Staff. For example, if you try fighting a hollow and they best you and kill you, you cant just be like "Nope I don't want to die, so I don't." That's ridiculous. Usually people in that situation woujld accept the obvious death with grace, but in case they wish to dispute it Staff will come in and make a ruling on the situation, and then declare you dead assuming everything checks out.
Now we do have Private threads here, which you can RP with someone specific while denying others entry, although I do not know if private threads are absolute. However most people abide by them.
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Post by Kisuke Inori on Mar 1, 2010 3:36:25 GMT 1
Even if there aren't people who are of that rank, there certainly won't be any for a while. From what I can see, you have to have your character be in up to 120 threads before you even get Bankai, and as you first need Bankai before becoming a Captain of any division, I doubt anyone is going to focus their time in being in that many threads. No one is going to rush, and lists of everyone else would help at least make the cluttering of threads more organized. There are 44 accepted Shinigami profiles by the time this is posted, and I doubt any newcomer is going to want to go through 44 profiles just to find out basic information like name and rank. Doesn't matter if anyone isn't a Captain or Vice-Captain yet, by the time there is one, there could be near a hundred profiles. Who wants to go through a hundred profiles by hand? I can understand lists not being needed for the Vaizard and so forth, but once you get near about twenty profiles, he is really going to go through all of them themselves without any idea as to who is who? What I meant was that there are other boards where people use just one account for all of their characters and they function just fine, if not better. There's nothing confusing about it as long as the people using the characters state clearly which character they use. It's a more versatile method because on Proboards, unless people are wanting to use different emails for different accounts, it does not support the function of having two or more accounts using the same email address. I don't know about everyone else, but I only use one email. If I wanted to create another character, that means I would have to make another email for that new account. To me, I find it's a waste of emails. If my character fights another and he/she dies, yeah, by all means, they're dead. I'm just saying that under unreasonable circumstances, I should at least have some say as to whether or not they die. Unreasonable like having a Rank 3 up against a Rank 10 or 15. Sure, maybe right now, there isn't anyone like that around here, but at some point in the future, there will be characters like that. I'm just wanting to make sure that nothing like this will happen. I don't want a profile I make for a character go to waste just because some guy decided he wanted to kill me. It's not fair to me, and it certainly wouldn't be fair to everyone else if something similar happened to them. Yes it's frowned upon, but can it still happen? Yes, because there are some out there somewhere that might just do it for spite. |
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