Sign-up & F.A.Q. thread

[Onix Solo]

Got Parromime up.

Hope we can get new characters in as I love this little guy.

[Jazzman Crothers]

Aug 11, 2010 23:54:46 GMT -5 Hoist said:

Standard 9 points for everything, 46 for tech spec. Courage and Rank and matter though and aren't included in that.

Any freebie points by chance? If not I'll post my guy right now without them. Grunt should be up today as well, gotta fix his char. pic.

And BTW, just to be clear on Apache, his agility and fighting skills lean more towards his fly and combat skills while in the air. In robot mode and on the ground he's like the average warrior but due to his craziness, just more daring then most.

[Hoist]

I think it was 3 extra freebie points to spend.

[Jazzman Crothers]

3! Awesome! Not that I'm a power gamer or anything.....

(bwahahahehehe! NPCs feel my wrath!)

[Hoist]

We've still some Cybertrons to be put up, but all being well wee could be ready to go by the end of the week, depending on everybody.

I've finally finished doing the general transfering of old profiles and tech specs into the modern ones for my Destrons (The Street Assault Team being a bit more realistic in specs), so all I have to do is finish them up with the missing bits over the week. The insectrons were already pre-done weeks in advance and just need a little finishing off.

[Jazzman Crothers]

Sounds good, I may not have a computer at the end of the week. Hopefully I can take it in for some fixing asap! So I may not have it for a while, but the Apple store I go to is pretty good and fast. *Knocks on wood*

[Bomblast]

I'll try and get my 2 characters done tomorrow.

[Onix Solo]

so 46 + 3 freebies?

I just used 46.

[robrich8705]

Hi all, I signed up to the site relatively recently and I see it looks like Betrayal of the Insectrons hasn't started yet. Is there room for one more on the maximal/cybertron side? If so, just to clarify- it's 46 points amongst attributes and 6 for the weapons/abilities and such?

I'm thinking of a scout/warrior sort of type, few ranged weapons and a beast mode like a lynx, with no eyes (and therefore no sight) or tail and a long, barbed tongue the real animal would use to hunt smaller prey animals. It would be a nocturnal creature, very fast and agile, probably do a lot of tree-hopping. Not having much luck with names though.

So... assuming you're still open, would i post a profile in the cybertrons section for approval?

[Jazzman Crothers]

Hello there. Its 46 points for the tech spec, 9 points for weapons, tools, equipment and powers with an extra 3 points to spend on either tech spec or weapons and etc.

BTW, if your character has no eyes in beast mode, how does he operate without sight?

[Onix Solo]

I'd assume the same way anything else lacking eyes sight. Snakes and some lizards use their tongues, Moles have extra-sensitive barbs on their faces, and so on.

[robrich8705]

Exactly. Echolocation, enhanced sense of smell, and the pads on the animal's feet are very sensitive to vibration. He loses the finer points of sight, such as color or shading and he would have a very difficult time functioning in an environment where there were a very large number of enemies, or there was a large amount of noise or commotion. In robot mode he would have a number of enhanced sensors that would compensate fairly easily for his lack of sight. He would be a great candidate for scouting out enemy positions, sniffing out enemy scouts and spies, and the like. However, any bot that KNOWS of the limitations in his senses would be able to take advantage and get the drop on him.

[Jazzman Crothers]

Interesting. I don't think Hoist will have a problem with it.

[robrich8705]

So, Eko (pronounced echo), the blind cybertron, is up. I decided to drop the barbed tongue on the beast mode. I feel like I had to take a few liberties with his history, as I've read everything I can find on the site here and still sort of feel like I'm missing something. I wrote it in such a way as to imply he'd have been out of the action during the first RP, just to leave some wiggle room. I can make any changes needed if I strayed too far. I envision him as vaguely philosophical, pseudo-spiritual... or whatever passes for it amongst cybertronians anyway. Beast Machines Optimus comes to mind, though less.... well, less.

Lord Onixprime, I was checking out Parromime and I have this suspicion that he and Eko would mesh well... could be neat. If nothing else, I'm sure Eko could use a gun now and then!

[Jazzman Crothers]

Considering he's blind he would need the extra eyes for shooting!


Lando: "No wait I thought you were blind!"

Han: "Its ok Lando, trust me!"