Alpha Centauri is one of my favourites, and there's certainly possibility for strong, ideological roleplay. However, the roles would be predetermined of course. But I'm up for playing evil capitalist, good Gaian, etc.

Hehe, the beholder is a nice idea, probably rather unique on that site too The booboid you might patent and manufacture, earning millions?

I'm no graphician though, so I'll refrain from any really constructive comment I'm afraid. I can't help but wonder why 'Janet' is called 'Janet' though (/me grins)

Hah yes Oluf, I remember my giant misstell of the century to your char And I thought such things would be impossible, but I don't think we found out if it was. Of course, since misstells make for 'fun' RP, we just accepted them after that.

Oh well, and about voicechat. It's true that the flirty elven princess might suddenly sound very non-princess like via voicechat, and that there's less time to think on what you do. However, in PnP and Live RP, we also use our voices, it could be said. I'd say that it does heighten the atmosphere not being able to hear each other though, it gets more immersive, and you are less distracted (since the voices can never sound like the char anyway, unless you play yourself). Less suspension of disbelief. Also RP situations take around 5-10 times as long without voicechat of course. And you couldn't talk to both people in front of you, and via telepathy to your guild at the same time. Which I would actually prefer (unless there was a good ingame reason).

Ah well, advantages and disadvantages. But since PnP and MMO are different mediums, it's fine with different ways of communication that fits each of those. Hence, I'd say no to voicechat.

Tomato

Ministry, 'The Great Satan', from the same album as the other two. Yes, he's _slightly_ angry, and it's a great album all in all, the three mentioned songs the best on the album IMO. 'Gangreen' also has me chuckling

Eskimos & Egypt with 'Fall from Grace' (beastmaster edit). Hah! A real old song from my happy techno teenage days. Getting nostalgic here.

Great, welcome aboard for whatever stories we'll create together

Yes Wheri, but we can't have you join URU Live - You'll just kill it off. Sorry

We've formed our guild, The Seeds of Atys, at long last.

So there's a meta thing to decide now in regards to the communication system.

So far, we've been playing with us being unable to communicate in a direct telepathic form with others. Also, Kendrus, Artash and I at least, have been using the system I proposed, but with Ahnions level changes, i.e. when you reach level 75 in magic, you can begin communicating  in thoughts, and when you have below 25 in magic, you can barely transmit your feelings, and have no real control.

Now, this worked well enough for now. Of course, new roleplayers who join might get frustrated with this, but in the end, it's up to each person to decide how he or she communicates, and we are of course the only ones with this system. It's made us unique and does contain some RP in itself - however, it is much harder to do and maintain, it requires some dedication.

Now, we have a guild channel too. The question then becomes - do we follow our system from before, i.e. only feelings and images until the homin reaches lvl 75, or do we say that the guild link is some sort of existing thing, that we are given, or which is activated, once we create a guild? I believe that's what some other roleplaying guilds have done. Something about linking the Seed in you with the other members. Of course it's a meta-description of something that doesn't exactly makes sense, but that's not the real point. I can't find a link to the description of this, but if Emaelle's player sees this, I think she can elaborate?

Anyway, what do you think? Easier communication in guild channels, or still wait for lvl. 75 for that, and otherwise keep on with the images/feelings?

Ultimately, it'll be up to each player of course, and new roleplayers joining can't be expected to adhere to our system (at least I think it should be voluntary, as it can feel quite restrictive if you don't like it), but what is the general feeling about this now?

As for my own view, I've been content with our communication system. It's been fun to stand apart a little, even when it's hard to explain why you can't reply to someone contacting you IC. That leads to RP too though. If we adhere to this on the guild chat, it'll take some time before many are speaking in it, as opposed to projecting feelings and images. This might frustrate some, but those would probably not follow our communication system anyway. There's both advantages and disadvantages as usual. Our chars might not bond IC in quite the same social way as others do, but they'd be forced to meet up ingame and be creative with their communication. I still think that's interesting to explore, especially if you can actually communicate with thoughts around lvl. 75 or simply if you feel that's best for your individual char, at any time.

Ah, this turned out into a semi-ramble Still, let's decide this somewhat quickly, I need to prepare a text about our guild (for your aproval before going public with it of course).

Well, before thinking about that Wheri, I was thinking. We already have a forum, here. Shouldn't we use that one instead of the ingame one, also to draw people? Or would you argue the opposite?

I certainly hope that bitter aftertaste is not due to 'you know what'