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(ooc): Overpowered characters
| ... settings where people usually stay hidden and low profile. But staying low profile while posessing fully armed and manned attack helicopters? With the maintenance needed and the hangars and the fueling and the stash of weaponry? Wouldnt governmental forces swarm over the very moment they saw something like that?
It is rp and all, but it seems a bit like godmoding to me.
| Well, someone needs to pulls the strings behind the entire universe. besides, there's plenty of characters who are just kind of people.
| I agree with it. But still it just feels a bit of a stretch to call your mates to bring a squadron of chopers to pick you up in a stranded situation. It just feels odd and ruins the rp in general. You often see situations like someone asks for some help, it is a very cool idea to start a good rp with all the difficulties and problems that need to be overcome, and there pops in someone with 'sure I can help you, let me send my army where you are located'. Indeed.
| AM here, I feel like my Alfa squad was pretty OP-y in their last thread... any opinions?
| Seemed fine to me.
I myself spend a lot of effort to tune down UKOBIANMC, and if they do feel overpowered still I am sorry. Always feel free to call me out on bullshit.
—UKT
| >>151054
Same here, though I haven't really done anything OP I'm pretty sure. @ @ Considering how often WL and my other characters get completely out gunned. 8D -Aethia
| The mod here is good at catching OP stuff. He'll bust people's knee caps if they're too OP by actually one upping them.
| I think that even the bigger entities are limited by other entities of same size. Another aspect of cyberpunk is monopoly and corporate reigns over people — it wouldn't be fun if all of us are normal people dealing with life problems; some needs to play the 'bad guys'.
And the bad guys probably have a beef against each other as well, I won't doubt that.
Oh yeah and a good number of these 'OP' characters have a pretty well-explained reason for their existence... (1/2)
| ... Like the UKT guys for example, they were summoned here to help handle the December Riots, or take the smaller, less powerful corp like WL, which is basically an ISP.
The fun starts when the GM can play around these powerful characters. Characters' power is limited to GM, so even if you send a whole army, you can still limit their power — forcing them to 'overcome' the difficulties they have.
(And the mods here are pretty good, so yeah.) (2/2)
| I never dabled enough to see op characters and peeps yet.. unless you count the illuminachos.. but ehh they seemed to stop showing up less
| That and red mask.. since im suprised he still hasn't been caught
| The Illuminachos haven't even done anything except pop up around the messageboard and kill a few people at a school before being captured.
And Red Mask is... somewhere.
| It's up to the roleplayers to reach a compromise in the service of the story, but the mods (and various owners of the corporations/city utilities/etc) serve to make sure no one has power to the point of removing tension from the story. This leniency could lead to godmodding but has rarely been a problem short of messages being deleted to enforce a retcon.
| Well ehh Illuminachos are mostly gone at this point.. they already found their storage warehouse of doritos chips.. and the place making the doritos.. it's just days before they find their hideout and finally rid of them all
| Once upon a time I ontrolled a group
| because characters can't be killed unless their creator allows it, all characters have effective plot armor, making every character technically OP
| -Ahem- excuse me.
Once upon a time, I controlled a few characters and a group which basically amounted to the strength of Invisible Inc. (Google it) And then as I started throwing in more and more people, basically I had realized that maybe having a solid snake-like, what amounted to tailred, and also The Surge's Warren under my belt seemed a little ridiculous.
So I destroyed the group and left basically everyone but my main... Somewhere.
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| Maybe it is just me, but I see a lot of rp where the player commands and steers an entire army, so to speak. I see a lot of entries where someone arrives in a scene with a truck full of platoon comandos, armed to the teeth, or posessing items and weapons which I find it difficult to be kept hidden and personal and which would cost government grade funds just to be in posession of. I find it off putting and uninspiring to rp. And it also defeats the idea of cyberpunk...