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Post by Mr. Durandal on Feb 8, 2008 23:14:21 GMT -5
I have been thinking of the RP boards and the possibility of advancing into the future 5-10 years. Think about it, isn't it possible for Hyrule to actually have advanced into the future this much, what with the timeline being like 4 days/day or something. I have also spoken to Canton about opening up the moon for map expansion. So my proposition is: We need to advance into the future to open up some more options.
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Post by Skydiving Penguin on Feb 9, 2008 15:50:18 GMT -5
i agree
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Post by Ignatius on Feb 9, 2008 16:08:16 GMT -5
Whoa... I definitely don't like the idea of going sci-fi all of a sudden after we've had an excellent record of 'realism' in our Modern Day RP's. If we suddenly allow the timeline to accept all that sort of technology, then the RolePlay here in Hyrule will quickly dissolve into a quagmire of high-tech mumbo-jumbo that'll have everyone confused on what's "possible". Light sabers, energy shields, cloning, and all that have happened before in the mainstream RP during the past with terrible results, and should just be kept in AR.. I like RP exactly as it is, and I don't see any reason to push the technology further from the widely accepted realism of modern day. Just use the AR forum, Dur... It's what it was made for.
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Post by Skydiving Penguin on Feb 9, 2008 16:09:17 GMT -5
uh...never mind, I hate sci-fi, if that is what Durnadal means.
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Post by Ignatius on Feb 9, 2008 16:10:15 GMT -5
Yeah... Expansion into the moon sounds more like AR to me..
And I'll be the first one to leave Hyrule for the European Continent if that happens on Modern RP..
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Post by Mr. Durandal on Feb 9, 2008 16:36:42 GMT -5
What I'm talking about is for us to start allowing research into space travel. Not major lasers and light sabres, but for more future tech weapons like robotics, small-scale rail guns, even possibly laser weapons that can destroy missiles. The show Future Weapons has some new technlogy that will be available 5-10 years from now. How long is a day in RP compared to RL? We would feasibly be in the year 2011-2013 or something like that if an RL day was truly 4 days in RP, or whatever it is.
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Post by Robengrad on Feb 9, 2008 17:20:38 GMT -5
The reason I created the AR forum was to allow people to do stuff like this in there. Things have been running fine since we split the AR and main RP rooms and I dont see why we should suddenly change this.
Its a slippery slope from doing this sort of thing as it allows a lot of interpretation, one second lasers are destroying missiles, the next they will have been adapted to fit tanks etc etc.....
I say that things have been fine since I brought in the current rules and that there is little or no need to change them at this time.
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Post by Porcu on Feb 9, 2008 19:42:27 GMT -5
I am in complete agreement with Iggy and Rob on this one...Time does pass in the RP boards, the HTO is an ancient organization, Il Duce and Hess have been dead for sometime, and modern technology has recently come about...Things are working smoothly for the first time in awhile...
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Post by Mr. Durandal on Feb 9, 2008 19:46:15 GMT -5
We need to talk about what limits would be on this if it happens. Sure we would have weak lasers for missile crushing and stuff. I realize that peoples' concern with these changes would be that it would be interpretation problems. Let me say that we need a set of rules for this in what we can and cannot use. That is what the Roleplaying Guidelines are for. If you are in agreement and I do convince you, we need to decide what it is we limit. Lasers can only fit on planes. Rail guns aren't really rail guns but tank shells that use tremendous amounts of force without explosives to penetrate armour.
All I'm saying is that in order to be realistic, if we are going to remain modern, we need to make 1 day in RP=1 day in RL. That way, in like 2 months, the RP board hasn't jumped like a year. I understand what you're saying with AR, Rob, but I had assumed that was for things like fantasy and far-future time-settings. If it is also meant for 5-10 years in the future then I was mistaken. I'm just trying to be realistic with the dates and such.
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Post by Dark Archon on Feb 10, 2008 18:49:37 GMT -5
i'm in agreement with Durandal about this. Hyrule can't remain in the past forever, for it would seem that our nations would rather go to war or convene meetings rather than advance the technology of simple machines, lasers, etc. A book I read by Ralph Peters (War of 2020) played with Lasers and Particle Weapons. The particle weapons were simply projectiles that were electromagnetically sped up and that destroyed some things simply by impact. There was limitations, the Lasers on the gunships had to recharge after some shots and the particle weapons lost their accuracy after a hundred or so shots. Then they had to be recalibrated. That would eliminate god modding.
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Post by Mr. Durandal on Feb 10, 2008 19:02:34 GMT -5
Let me reclarify me proposal so that everyone will be happy. We do not necissarily need to place Hyrule in the future. However, I wish to make it possible for RP nations to use things that would be available in 5-10 years. If that helps, then I hope we can see this through.
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Post by Dark Archon on Feb 10, 2008 19:12:10 GMT -5
i'm all for that
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Post by stargatesg1 on Feb 10, 2008 19:19:31 GMT -5
I can support it if we limit it to 5 years, with limitations that are very strict.
And the Moon could be a slippery slope, because a lot of nations are interested in it for the He-3 which could be used to power a fusion reactor which is a very dangerous path.
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Post by Mr. Durandal on Feb 10, 2008 20:13:26 GMT -5
When I say anything, I mean anything in the next 5-10 years. Obviously, space ships, laser beas, and mass accelerator cannon are a no-no, but small-scale robotics, MGLs, and kinetic-force tank shells are definately within that scope. The moon, I understand would be a no-go, but wouldn't it be possible for someone to have started space exploration? I mean think realistically, as humans we don't want to be confined and eventually a nation will want to explore space.
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Post by Ignatius on Feb 10, 2008 20:15:44 GMT -5
Guys, just use the AR forum for this. It's what it was made for, and I don't really want to leave Hyrule again just because we go sci-fi. We have no idea what kind of technology would be available to us in five to ten years, and if we did this, then we'd be in a huge arguement over what's "reasonable tech".
Expansion into the moon would pretty much ruin all the goodness RP has come along so far, and would probably alienate the older gents (Me, Porcu, Rob) from future RP in Hyrule. Instead of changing the main RP universe, why not just set up a new universe in the AR section of the forum and leave RP as it is here?
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