Hi everyone,
So I'm debating starting an RP of my own, and if I was going to go through the trouble of setting one up, I wanted to do something completely different. Therefore, I've started thinking about different ideas, and I want to see if any of them seem interesting to any of you writers out there. I've listed my three favorites below. All require elaboration and additional research but I'm just starting out. Ideally, I'd like to have people on both sides of the engagements to make it more interesting and give different perspectives, but we'll have to see what people's feelings are.
First: Takes place in the Chainelane Isles, a deep periphery territory of competing principalities. Cut off from the IS, they war amongst themselves mostly with infantry and armor. Mechs are only used in decisive engagements. Story would be (hopefully) infantry and tank based, with lots of character interaction and small unit engagements. Almost nothing is written about the Isles so we would have carte blanch for characters, technology, nations etc. I'd come up with a campaign, missions etc and we'd let it play out.
Second: Takes place during the Reunification War in 2581. According to lore, it featured the largest naval battles of the war, and the RP would be exclusively naval combat based. Members could be captains of capital ships, aerospace fighter pilots, dropship captains, or naval marines engaging in ship to ship combat. This one would really require people adhering to not "godmodding" and to act realistically, allowing their ship to take damage etc. Members could fight on the side of the invading SLDF navy or could defend Taurian space as a member of the TDF. The SLDF eventually win, but individual engagements are not described and it's anyone's game as far as I'm concerned. I'd go through and detail the ships involved on both sides so everyone knows when a ship goes down what's left.
Third: This one would be a predominantly mech based RP and would take place around the final assault on Terra by the SLDF against Amaris forces. This is my least thought out one as its pretty similar to a lot of other RPs done so far, but I love my mechs too haha. Once again members could drop in with the SLDF or defend Terra to protect Amaris. This one we all know how it ends, so I'd base it on the fringe of the major battles, giving amaris players a chance to do some damage and not just lose inevitably.
I don't know if people are over extended already, or find these dumb, or what - just thought I'd throw out a feeler or two to see how people reacted.
I'm open to suggestions, additions, details, commentary - whatever. I just suddenly have more time on my hands and these are areas that haven't been done over and over. I thought a fresh start might be appealing. I'd just like to avoid clan things if possible as I don't want to compete with many of the other excellent RPs going on right now.
Let me know what you think! If anyone is interested, just go ahead and post here and with whatever scenario you are most interested. We'll see what's appealing haha.
Edited by Listless Nomad, 15 August 2012 - 07:51 AM.