Lord Kini Hawkeye

OOC:I'm not saying it has anything to do with your not liking the RPG.What i'm saying is that you're not liking that you're going in circles because people are refusing to go along with what you're saying. What I'm saying is that you can leave, but just realize that people playing the RPG rarely listen blindly to what staff say, let along another player.Everyone's character is their character, and will act as such. If you're annoyed simply because someone's character refuses to listen to yours, then i suggest you take a bit of a break from TBRPGs and reevaluate your situation. It's nothing to get angry about as it happens all the time, and even those with characters who are higher rank than their subordinates can pull rank, but the subordinates don't have to go down without a fight. Everyone's going to debate orders if they're bad, and i'm sure it'll happen to me.Heck, i'll enjoy it when it does.FINAL WORD: Please don't get annoyed if another player doesn't agree with you. It's part of the RPGing process and adds some development to the story. In fact, i encourage you to have your character argue anything he/she would deem wrong, as it'll only make the experience better. Even if your character gets bashed around a bit.Moreso i encourage you to Argue with Vak's characters if you don't like what they're doing >=D*Listens to Coheed and Cambria's "The Broken""I'm baaaaack~

OOC:@ Wish.We can accept your leaving, but please, just because you don't like something that's happening, or the actual events don't agree, doesn't mean you're justified in just leaving.While i'd like you to stay (this RPG needs all the people it can get) i can't stop you from leaving either.Just remember that leaving because you don't like something isn't the best thing to do. You're not the GM, so try not to make things happen randomly.

Deedle Dee, nice to see this place up and running still...@.@*Only posted so that there wouldn't be double posting*

Some people don't have access to VNOG, or are able to play it. Besides, if BS01 doesn't have it it'd be a useful thing to add.So what exactly are they?

Megablocks is only superior, in my mind, in their attention to detail in some ways.Still lower quality - but i love the Halo sets, and Loved the dragons/pirates sets way back when but no, Lego's not drifting towards megablocks at all.

As far as Allowing people to create stuff on the server map when it's released, That'll depend on two things.Size of the island, and whether or not we want the museum server destroyed.While LJ and I are working on the Island... and taking our sweet time mostly because i'm lazy, I COULD see the server map being kept up if there was enough demand, and turned into a survival/creative mode server simple for enjoying the mata Nui experience on.However i don't see that happening until maybe a month after the movie releases.

Ohgod.Anywhere i can jump in? I'm so out of the loop, and tired, and such, so someone recap me as to what happened and how much time, if any, has passed since Kiro passed out. T'would be nice to get back into this

Deevs replied better than I could have, especially in my current... overtired state.But i HAVE been to many a website outside of BZP. And I like BZP best. Why? Because the staff are Active. They're not too lenient, they're not too harsh. Granted there are some times where i feel that a closed topic or blog post didn't necessarily need closing, but oh well. Stuff happens.If your problem is with the rules and not the staff, than you needn't get angry with the staff. The no linking to forums is there for a reason, as is the word filter, as is the "ban" on political/religious discussion.If you like "Every other site on the internet" So much, why don't you go to "Every other site on the internet." Because you're still here there's obviously a reason why, but if all these other sites are so good, why do you keep whining about BZP's rules?

If the staff were unneccessarily harsh Deev's here wouldn't have replied. He would've deleted your post.It the staff were unneccessarily harsh this topic wouldn't have lasted this long, especially with all the staff discussion.If the staff were unneccessarily harsh You, Zaz, would've been banned by now.You continue using these terms, "Forced Optimism" "Unneccessarily harsh," and i don't think you actually understand what they mean, for there are places with far, far worse Moderation. Just because you frequent sites that have more freedom than BZPower does not mean that the entirety of the internet is like that. I can guarantee that the Majority of the Forums you're comparing BZPower to, don't have a primarily 12-14 year old audience.just because BZPowers getting older, doesn't mean the majority age of it's members has changed.

http://www.bzpower.c...?showtopic=3085My link to Deep Shadows.

Congrats to Everyone who won, Especially you my good sir. You beat me by one vote :)Guess i'll just have to try harder next time, Congrats to everyone. I'm Proud to have competed with so many good writers

Just going to throw this out there.I'm not an expert on Civ, much less it's builder, But you can't really get too specific with it "Extinct Volcano" wise. A lot of the geography of your island will still have to be explained/drawn, so just keep that in mind.

Rausaro:I believe I read somewhere, (i think in Cryptum) that there were an original Twelve Rings. However all of this original number were destroyed save one, which was then used as the basis for the smaller and more easily hidden "second" halo series.I recall this information being released but not where i read it...Maybe i'm crazy but i think it's in Cryptum.

Personally I'd like to just say that a Religion should depend on the race and be part of their "culture."There shouldn't really be a standard religion, nor should anyone be limited. If someone wants their race to worship one diety, or someone wants their to worship 300 plus, I say let them.If i'm missing something feel free to ignore this cause i havn't posted on BZP in a long time and i merely skimmed the topic.

I actually discovered BZPower shortly after it began being Advertised on the Bionicle Website. However, i wasn't able to make an account for a long while, until about '08.Makes me kinda sad that i coulda had a pretty spinny

Excuse me, But my patience, sadly, is begining to be tested.If there's a six month downtime, members do not, just sit on their hands, as you've restated so many times. People were angry the downtime took so long, I was annoyed with the look of the site, But just because we're happy the place is back does not mean we sat on our hands and said nothing in critisism. There was frustration everywhere. Ask any member. The difference is that the member base has enough respect and knowledge for what the admins had to go through during the downtime to get the site back up, that we didn't outright attack them. Just because we're respectful doesn't mean it's out of fear of the staff. Your boss or principle might not scare you, but you respect him all the less, no?Members engage in percieved flaming all the time. True story. The difference is that it's not instantaneous proto zap, as you seem to think. But alas, Flaming is against the rules. It's a good rule too, and so we're reduced to this. I can garuantee that some people might find, say, the last few posts i've made here, and even this one, borderline flame. But they're not, at least, that isn't the intent. If i get warned i'll respectfully point that out.The number of BZPower members has decreased since Bionicle Ended. Some people felt that the end of the toy line signified the time to move on with life. Others simply got bored of BZPower. I left, and it had nothing to do with the staff. I suggest that you stop overgeneralizing everything, Por favor Senor, and realize that the fact that BZP's active membership has been declining for some time now. The Downtime just jump started it. To be perfectly honest, i've heard gripes about the site, people, lego, bionicle itself being the reason for BZP's decline. But i've never met someone who so thoroughly believes that the staff and moderation policies are the one reason the site's dying.As for the mentioned Member, to each his own. One person does not represent the whole. Off the subject of your post, I'd like to point something out to you Zaz. You describe yourself as "hating humanity," No? That's fine. What's not fine is the fact that you seem to have a hard time remembering that not everyone shares that viewpoint. Just because you know a few former BZPers who say one thing, doesn't mean everyone thinks that. Just because you might not like the staff, and it seems to you that everyone on BZP just sits on their hands when the staff could be involved, doesn't mean it's what's happening.To further my point, i know people who don't want to risk getting in trouble with the BZP staff, however unfounded their fears may be. I also know people who have gone out of their way to joke with, troll, or generally annoy staff members, without getting zapped/in too much trouble. BZPowers moderation isn't as strict as you make it out to be. If it was, you would've been Proto-Zapped many a time already. You havn't been Zapped before, I have, i'm pretty sure that in a discussion on moderation policies, i have a biiiiit more experience than you.

I'm too lazy, as of now, to make a long post in responce to you Zaz, but truely, i would love to see evidence that this so called "Forced Optimism" Is due to fear of the staff.For most people (Most, not all) They're more concerned with making sure they don't mess up in front of the community, which can be a big mistake. You don't want anyone to think you're a bad person, least of all the staff, but that doesn't mean the staff are the first people you make considerations for. Additionally, People trying to be light and make sure the meaning of their post is clear Isn't for the staff. It's to make sure no one misunderstands. For example, i could read this post and the voice i hear could be entirely higher-than-thou. That's not the tone i'm trying to convey, more of a "i disagree with you and here's why"This stuff you keep spouting about BZP fearing its staff is absolute **** though. Fear does not equate into respect. BZPers respect the staff - and it's been so many years since i heard somone say that they were afraid of the staff that this makes me laugh. Besides Zaz, i fail to see why all the "The staff are fear and people aren't able to do anything because of this fear and yadda-yadda-yadda" Is even neccessary when you've been argued against so many times.You aren't bringing up any new points to support your argument, just the same old "Forced optimism" thing... again.Besides, i dare you to go and have a talk. A friendly, innocent talk, with any one of the BZPower staff. It's hard to fear someone when you've talked to them and seen them, not the anonymous face who closes your topics.As a closing regard, i fail to see how "Members aren't going to just say it out loud" is an argument. You're saying it out loud - what makes you different from anyone else? Are ye fearless, perhaps? All I'm trying to point out here Zaz, is that just because you know a few people who feel a certain way, doesn't mean it represents the community at large. And since it's been so long since i've heard of someone being afraid of the staff, i have to wonder if these aren't your own feelings, Zaz. Doesn't matter to me either way but...Well, when you've watched some of the Member-Staff interactions than, well. Some people joke with staff they know, others just joke around with staff to annoy them. Fear, again, doesn't equate, nor does it grip this site to the same degree as you seem intent on saying.(Wow. Looks like i made a long post after all.)

The big thing, sadly, is that FTL communication is, at its heart, a staple of more general science fiction. However just because a message is sent to the fleet, doesn't mean it's not going to be there instantly. In a real scenario, fleets are never together one hundred percent of the time, and so one must gather their fleets in the event of a surprise attack, jump into the system, and organise a counter offensive - all of which could take far longer than an alien invasion - especially if that planet doesn't have heavy defences or the alien invasion is just so large as to overpower everything the colony world throws at them.The Big thing to remember is that just because communication is instantaneous, responce is not, nor will it ever be. It takes far longer to respond to an attack than it does to start one, and considering the fact that your fleet could be in shambles already, spread throughout known space, in addition to being multiple systems away from the under attack system... really if someone were to manage to get an entire retaliatory/defensive fleet ready and in battle before you were mostly finished, I'd pin a medal on said person. The only way that's going to happen is if either the defenders have really good intelligence, and know the attack is coming before it does, or the attackers have really bad intelligence, and have no idea that the fleet is already at the system they plan to attack.Aaaaaaaand I'll end my little rant there, cause while the majority of the people here seem to be more into the science-y aspects of this new "genre" of TBRPG, i'm more logistical. I've been studying Medieval Battles and Military strategy since i was five, after all, and the amount of time it takes to respond to an attack when your army is gathered at the place being attacked is rediculous. - In an area as vast as space... That number grows tenfold, especially when trying to mount an organised defensive.And as for your building entire strategies that must now be thrown to the wind... I'll give you one tip as a strategist. Never base a strategy on something that's not confirmed or is liable to change. There's a reason that, besides my idea for a race, i've put almost no true thought into how i'm going to play. When mostly everything is set in stone, then i'll start making my strategies.

'Twas more in responce to Xom, that bit - though the question on how hard the science will be was legitimate.

I do truely hope we aren't going to allow things that are virtually impossible just because they're cool, Rover.Just as a question though, exactly how hard is the science in this going to be?

Trading Vessels/Posts, Non-Military Refueling Stations, Embasies, etc etc.Nothing else comes to mind off the top of my head. go with Rover, he's smarter

Maybe i'll have to throw a spin on mine and have them actually be half diplomatic when it suits them. Be very Flood Esque :PAssuming I go through with it, I have a few things i could do.

Lloyd: I encourage that bandwagon, could be an interesting plotline The Response to the threat to all sentient life wouldn't happen to be a series of seven rings, would it? :PXom: While I myself have no problem with Telepathy, i think it should, if allowed, require the same sort of timed period in which the being in question would have to condition it's mind to read anothers. As communication between the same species, i myself cannot see why not. However with others outside your own species it might be a problem.

BZPRPG usually goes on for as long as it can... the major reason there have been so many recent reboots is because of the downtime(s).Best thing to do is just jump in, as i doubt there'll be a new BZPRPG story that just pops up within the next year. They're more likely to introduce it through the game itself.

I remember back before the downtime the staff really were like robots. The only time I ever saw staff members was "topic closed" or "topic moved". Just look at archived posts from forum leaders and you'll see what I mean. However, since the down time I've seen many staff members getting really involved in discussion. Gata posts a lot, Bones is always around S&T, and Deevee even posts some (despite the fact that the forums aren't even his area).

But... When was the last time you saw a moderator playing an RPG? Or making an MOC for the fun of it? Or doing any of the things BZPower members do every day?^quote look familiar?^Only Gata, Bones, Turakii, and Deevee (Maybe Spirit, I can't remember) have gotten active like that, and I haven't seen Turakii around and posting non-staff stuff like the rest much since the downtime. (Except when she commented on my profile about my sig).

BZPRPG before the downtime :PThe biggest thing to remember is that the staff aren't regular BZP members. Look at any normal member and their activity wanes as finals get closer, or as they get older. Look at a staff member and this happens at a much larger rate. Why? Because the staff have a responsibility to keep this site running, and due to that it's not every day they get the chance to post, asides from those post directly relating to their duty.However, I still see Forum Mentors post a lot, and Assistants - I see staff all over the place posting, especially in CoT. (Though that might just be myself, i tend to think of CoT RPG judges along the same lines as staff, even if they aren't).Staff Members don't have the same liberties that normal BZPers do, simply because they are staff members, and that's something to keep in mind.

They've also thought out Organic Ships and Parasites :PThere has to be a basis for everything, you know, and just cause someone else thought it out doesn't mean it's going to be allowed :PI for one though, agree with the "ban" on Organic Ships, considering i wasn't really going to use them anyways.And as far as myself having a parasitic race, i'm not going to get angry cause i can't "assimilate" one's race, long as there's a reason for it. Just as long as not everyone jumps onto the "we can't be taken over" bandwagon