Post edited 3:45 am – September 18, 2013 by tigertheory

Welcome!

The only other person I know John was going to invite was Caligo, so I assume that's you? If so, hey! It's been a long time since we talked. If not, who are you? :p.

Eliminating Word Requirements
Option 1: Probably won't happen. We do not want to promote people as being better roleplayers by giving them larger bonuses for being “better.” Currently RPs will be graded based on the amount of words. It should be noted we are not shying away from using words as a basis for grading training but rather we are shying away from requiring a certain amount of words for things such as traveling, learning a technique, etc.

Option 2: Again, we are grading based off of words and therefore we probably won't add additional rewards because someone was “better” than someone else. We want to cater to all skill levels when it comes to RPing and we don't want to show favoritism to anyone because of their ability to RP.

I feel like I should go over how we are grading our RPs. When someone has something that needs to be turned in to be updated they use the Chimera Engine to process their update. When they are using the system there will be a tag system that allows them to tag techniques used (for awarding technique points) and allow them to tag anything else we deem important. Then a DM will browse through the post to be updated and simply verify that what was tagged does exist. Once verified they will push it through and everything is updated automatically on their profile.

Character Choices
We are definitely pushing towards using a non-canon character though we haven't decided on whether or not we're going to allow canon characters. I am very reluctant to close off canon characters because as you said people become attatched to them. However, it is already decided that most important canon characters will be locked as they are reserved for Story Events. The character builder sounds amazing but this will ultimate be up to John as he is handling the brunt of the programming efforts.

Universe
Currently we are using only four planets, Vegeta, Frieza #79, Earth and Namek. These planets will have various locations for members to visit, an item shop, and many other things. Then we have several minor planets which will contain special techniques and/or items. Currently members still have to travel to these planets but besides the special techniques/items the planets are empty. Then we have a third set of planets that will be used for Story Events, this is basically every other planet in the known Dragon Ball universe minus any that are destroy at this time or were introduced in filler episodes or GT.

Traveling
You are on the same page as us.

Items
Pretty much the same page. While we are not afraid to add items that don't appear in the manga/amime, the item does have to make sense. Obviously adding in unrealistic items like an M4 would make no sense.

Techniques
You seem to be on the same page as us. You'll  have to get more involved in the forums though as this is too extensive to describe here.

Perks/Talents/Feats
We'll obviously have passive Racial Abilities and some techniques may be passive as well. Other than that, we're still discussing the perks for stat distribution.

Fighting Styles
I like the idea but we have to become aware of how many choices we're giving the member. We want to keep things simple and if members have to worry about creating their own character, techniques, items and pick between different perks and fighting styles it could become too complicated for newer roleplayers. We're well aware that are member base probably won't be huge and we can't make it even smaller by making it too complicated.

Good ideas and great write-up. I really suggest that you go through the forums and post on those discussions it would make things more centralized for us. If you don't see a topic created that you feel needs to be talked about, go ahead and create that topic. Everyone on the team is welcome to create as many topics as needed and post in any topic and give their opinion on anything.

Post edited 5:35 am – September 14, 2013 by tigertheory

Post edited 12:02 pm – September 14, 2013 by cooler

Ok, let me get in here and get into this. I'll start by saying, these forums have been in better shape, they'll be abandoned for DB Zenith and eventually the main forums as well (though for group style sites like this, they'll remain for the time being due to their inclusion into wordpress without any bridging installs)

On to the content stuff
Word counts are something we need to limit as much as possible, at least in the sense of required word counts (as in, 2000 words gets you an item or something) where as words just as a basis for xp gain is still probably the best way to go. I don't like the idea of grading RPs as that inserts bais and opinion into the mix and those things can wreck havoc.

Character stuff
I like the idea of the MMO/RPG style character builder, I'd like to invest some time trying to make this work, It's pretty important for us to have someone actually doing some artwork though, if Saiyen isn't up to it then we'll probably have to abandon said idea.

I think we're all on the same page with the universe and item stuff.

Techniques
As far as I'm concerned this is the most important area of development, we have to get this right. The tier system was always in my mind powered by a form of XP used to buy techniques (TP or Tech Points from now on). We'll award these based on use of techniques in actual RPs (though the tag system) and each tech will be upgradable in various ways. Assuming all techniques are named individually by the player based on a core tree of possible techs they are all basically up to the players to flesh out the mechanics, name, color, form, etc, via their RPs.

Perks
I really want to do this is a passive way, not something that players have to pick but something that if their stats, skills, techniques, etc align with they gain said perks.

Perks
What he means is that perks are automatically activated dependant on the choices that a user makes when it comes to how they distribute stats, technique points, alignment, etc. Example: Cooler divides all of his stat points equally and gains the Freelancer perk by doing so. Cooler would keep this perk until his next level up and either keep it or earn a new one depending on how he chooses to distribute his stats. Now will these perks all be known and the requirements for them know? That's a different question. I think it would be kind of cool to “unlock” perks, however, the only issue is that the staff would have an unfair advantage.

Techniques
To upgrade techniques or to by new base techniques a user must spend technique points (TP). Technique points are earned through the training that a user does. Remember how I said that users could tag the techniques they use when putting in an update? The reason is that the technique points they gain are solely based off of the amount and type of techniques that they use. Example: During his training, Cooler uses the Ki Wave several times and also attempts to master his hand-to-hand combat. Therefore he would earn technique points towards Ki Wave and towards Fist-based and Leg-based techniques. He can then spend those points to upgrade/customize his techniques that fall into those categories.

Note: I will admit that as I wrote that it sounded kind of complicated. We'll see how it goes through practice and perhaps simplify it some more.

It would have to be towards the category or else they'll never have the points to learn new techniques. Though it should be noted there will be relatively few techniques to learn anyways. Things will become more concrete once we have our technique list completed.