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SteelEagle

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  1. No one hates you.

    Your attitude comes off a bit combative and that is not something the staff tolerates very well.

    I'd ask for the thread to be re-opened when you're ready and then ask very simple manner what do you have to do to get the name approved and then follow the instructions. If you do and then someone else comes in and contradicts it, bring that up and state that you did as you were told.

    If asked to change again, do so, but most importantly don't get combative. Of all the parts of a character the name is the least important. No reason to get hung up on it as opposed to anything else. :) Try Erratic. Or Kookie Cloud. Or whatever as a legal name and haywire as a nickname used commonly as long as you aren't making edits in bad faith or poor spirit. You won't have to change a thing about your character's back-story. The obstacles you think are in your way are imaginary roadblocks. You can do it. I know you can.

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  2. " Hell, I may need to apply that to My Little Pony as well; Twilight's friends may have turned her into an alicorn princess and helped her unlock the blue box to receive Rainbow Power, but Twilight herself is and will always be the main-protagonist and leader. She isn't part of a shared universe, and her friends are not main-characters of their own respective franchises. "

    Correct. Now, I would love it if that were not the case. One reason I enjoy Marvel is I think the Avengers are all pretty even with one another and their individual titles feel important. Heck, Captain America is the least super powered of them all yet he is considered the leader. But in the end, MLP is one universe, one vision, with a mane character who is supported by her friends. Until the Applejack spinoff. Then all bets are off!

  3. RariDash is the greatest of all ships ever. <3

    Also good: AppleShy, DiscoShy, TwiLestia, Twinkie, TwiDance, ApplePie, LyraBon, FlitterChaser, among others.

    ooh, and for OC ships, SnowFinder is best of all (and for OC/Cast, FlashSteel).

    SnowFinder IS the best OC ship, by law and custom both. It is feature rich and full of content and you can't disagree with the length!

  4. I ship so much. I ship every ship, even the ones that conflict! But we all know that the best ship is Snowfinder. This is followed by Rarijack, but Phil and River won't dance to my whims. TwiJack is a good substitute. CarrotDash is really cute. JaXie will be the best new ship of life. DiamondBloom is gonna be super adorable and funny. LyraBon is OTP of life. MayorPonyville is the realest one.,

    GafferArmor would have been cute but Armor is taken, and Soarin' is available and has no real preference! Would have enjoyed some SoarinFire. ValenSpoon.

  5. The main issue is that you, and some others, are looking at as a competitive story- one in which we are trying to defeat you, or you are trying to defeat us. That there are winners and losers. There is not- there is only the story, and the reason Nightmare Night is used is simply because it isn't supposed to be, well, fair to the ponies. It isn't supposed to be a winner/loser event. It's supposed to be your ponies in a terrible situation and how they respond.

    "But, I would feel that I was letting down the team if I didn't contribute, and I also would feel frustrated that others weren't either, even if it made in-character sense that they wouldn't. Again, this was because I was used to the idea that not making an effort would actually mean losing (even though that probably doesn't hold true here). "

    - Is not the right way of looking at this, from my point of view, when we discuss freeform rp. From NationStates, if a Gholgothian cult launches a terrorist attack on a high school in Ixania, Ixanian high school students are not suddenly going to become proficient because the roleplay calls for it. The fact their inability to fight is a detriment in story to any possible military or police response does not harm the story, it helps because it raises the stakes for those who can fight and seems natural. In NMN, if the ponies who couldn't fight didn't fight and allowed those who could fight *to* fight, then it would have solved all problems that cropped up from an organizational standpoint.

    Individual posts from ponies who were fighting or trying to escape would have had *more* of an impact if there weren't a freakin' dozen of them that we had to counter or have the whole point of the thread(s) come undone in a few days. That would have given those who were fighting more of an impact, would have been easier for us, and we wouldn't have the sheer number of godmodding and OP complaints.

    So for future reference- make sure your characters act as they would act rather than act for plot convenience, and work in service of a story rather than in service of a fictional victory. There is no winning in freeform combat roleplay except the winning that comes from a good story told by those who participated. Plus, this isn't an adventure or even combat designated roleplay...has more to do with horror. At least in my view.

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  6. The most important thing to remember is your post is just one part of an overall story. The goal is not to win, it is never to win- you can't really win. The goal is to tell a good story. So think to yourself, "How does this help tell a good story?"

    Also, take stock of the odds. If there are ten posters postin' on the side of 'good' and only one on the side of bad, it makes the RP very boring if every 'good' character starts kicking butt, or has this plan that has promise, or if they all work towards something and before the 'bad' player can respond they're already on the cusp of victory. It doesn't help the story. In fact, it makes the story worse- there isn't much interesting about watching a bunch of heroes be awesome and facing no real challenge along the way because everything the bad guys do is drowned out in a sea of heroics and victory.

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  7. BHUT HOW ELS KAN I SHUW U MAH DEP BAKSTOREE???

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    [colour=#282828]It takes more than one person to rp and when your character is so angst filled that they cannot talk to another character without feeling ungodly angst? Then we have a problem"[/colour]

    [colour=#282828]I can't tell you how much I agree with this. I had a spate of people in one of my open threads come in with characters who at the slightest hint of something going wrong would have their characters turn and flee because of Outcast Syndrome. Then when I didn't put the brakes on the thread so my character didn't go super far out of her way to comfort them and make them feel like special little snowflakes even though literally nothing was wrong, I received a PM from one player expressing disappointment. [/colour]

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