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#1 Seras Victoria

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Posted 02 September 2013 - 11:37 PM

Welcome to the Idea thread. You know, running the Wonderbolts is hard work and we sometimes run out of ideas of what to do! If you think you've got an idea for a training exercise or a cool idea, then why not post it here! Be in mind we're bound by the rules of the server and Minecrafts design so we have limitations, but why not see what you can come up with!

 

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#2 Skelxon

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Posted 03 September 2013 - 02:10 AM

Right so, I've been thinking, and this is what I have come up with (hopefully this is alright to do, and hasn't been done before):

Do we ever run reconnaissance missions? I thought it might be an interesting idea to do some reconnaissance in an uncharted territory of Equestria. While we are there, we might find something interesting, exciting, or even evil. The main aim of this is to go somewhere we haven't gone before, and try to see what we can come up with while we are there.

I know that this is quite lacking in detail, and I do apologize for that. My aim was to come up with an idea for a little genre, in hopes that maybe a story will sprout from there. :)

Edited by Cheezman9497, 03 September 2013 - 06:36 AM.


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Posted 03 September 2013 - 01:44 PM

Right so, I've been thinking, and this is what I have come up with (hopefully this is alright to do, and hasn't been done before):

Do we ever run reconnaissance missions? I thought it might be an interesting idea to do some reconnaissance in an uncharted territory of Equestria. While we are there, we might find something interesting, exciting, or even evil. The main aim of this is to go somewhere we haven't gone before, and try to see what we can come up with while we are there.

I know that this is quite lacking in detail, and I do apologize for that. My aim was to come up with an idea for a little genre, in hopes that maybe a story will sprout from there. :)

Field tasks are actually pretty fun, especially done in small teams/squads. I +1 that idea.



#4 Seras Victoria

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Posted 03 September 2013 - 06:28 PM

I quite like this idea, if you want to put it together and run it by me when it's done then i'll approve it for weekly events.



#5 RunningWolf251

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Posted 06 September 2013 - 02:11 AM

While we are there, we might find something interesting, exciting, or even evil. The main aim of this is to go somewhere we haven't gone before, and try to see what we can come up with while we are there.

I know that this is quite lacking in detail, and I do apologize for that. My aim was to come up with an idea for a little genre, in hopes that maybe a story will sprout from there. :)

 

Something is always bound to go wrong when everything is "planned out." Perhaps with each different story there could be a bit of a mishap, leading to a conflict and possibly something to work towards.

 

One storyline I really liked was the one from Spec Ops: The Line, though I fear it'd be a bit difficult to do in-game without a lot of pre-rp planning and building. If you're not familiar with the story, here's a short rundown of the overall idea: A special forces team is sent to a location to scout a distress call from a location that has been otherwise abandoned for many years due to X reason (sandstorm). This makes for a diverse range of things that we could switch the story out for -- or a more plausible one in the case of minecraft -- a jungle or forest. My thoughts were an abandoned military base or forward scout camp used by EqM or WB previously.

 

Once the team arrives, they realize that the place is "abandoned," though it quickly turns ugly when they're attacked by unknown forces and have to defend themselves while wrestling with the moral dilemma of fighting the people they assume they were sent there to save. This is probably less of an acceptable topic for in-game rp, but the hostile parts can be switched out for a more team-oriented task such as survival or returning to base after losing their way, etc. The WB on task can get separated, run out of supplies, get lost, get stuck in a storm -- you name it, but it should be believable of course. But it could always be an on-the-fly rp where the storyline is dictated by the members as they go through it.

 

Keep in mind that this is probably a one-shot deal or a story that can't be run in quick succession after one run-through has been done or it'd spoil the fun.

 

Second idea was to use FalloutEQ's worlds as a post-war ground in which the WB can either be a fighting force or sifting through the wreckage -- maybe for one of their own team or for civilians -- and something goes wrong. I think that outside of the show and forum rp's the Wonderbolts are seen as less of a spec ops group and more of a showmanship group (I.e. Fort Hood 1st Cav. Mounted Division kind of group). I think it would be fun to see the WB get taken back into a combat ranger-ops role with in-game rp's and combat procedures. This leads into the third point that I tried to bring into the in-game training at the start of summer: combat drills.

 

I remember setting up archery targets on the clouds around the tarmac of the WBA and having recruits fly and shoot and stationary snipe, then giving guidance as to how to hit the targets more effectively and how to lead the target when flying and account for Coriolis. Fun times.

 

Thoughts on the above? I apologize on my absence. It's been too long for me, I know :/



#6 Seras Victoria

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Posted 06 September 2013 - 01:52 PM

After reading this I'm perfectly happy for you to come back. Apply ASAP again and just send me your Skype ID or something so when we have the officer meetings you can hop in too. I'd love to talk to you further about this and get your help to up this ingame.

#7 tudexd

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Posted 06 September 2013 - 05:00 PM

Are all the officers so far builders? Cause if so we could just use mumble.

#8 Caventh

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Posted 06 September 2013 - 05:03 PM

I vote that IOWrover gets a desk job rp where he has to balance the tax money that is funding his organization and generally do really boring things involving papers and bureaucracy. 

 

The villain of the story? BUDGET CUTS! DUN DUN!


Edited by Caventh, 06 September 2013 - 05:03 PM.


#9 Seras Victoria

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Posted 06 September 2013 - 06:44 PM

Caventh i like your idea. But i have a receptionist for that. RP IDEA DENIED. Now get the hell out of my Sub-forum.



#10 greebster

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Posted 06 September 2013 - 08:20 PM

Wonderbolts team-building event gone horribly wrong. They go somewhere in the middle of nowhere and learn different survival skills. Suddenly, something bad happens to their team-leader, they're stranded in the wilderness and they're not alone...
So, the idea is that they have to work together as a team to essentially survive and find some way to rescue their leader.

I have also had another idea... The chance dice, like RPers do with their good ol' D20s. However, it would need to be determined some other way in which all players can see the result of success from the action. The reason I'd like to see this moreover is so that some players don't always OP their characters. It may mean that we have to give our characters a bigger char-sheet with estimates of strength and constitution etcetera... Start each player with a count of about 40 points that they place on their character's different values, for example:

Fleetfire Icaria

STRENGTH: 8
AGILITY: 9
DEXTERITY: 7
INTELLIGENCE: 9
CONSTITUTION: 7

Just an example of course. We'd still have to work out a method for working out the chance side of things. I'll start looking for online D20 rollers right away. See if there's any way one can host a D20 roll estimate.

If none of you have any idea what I'm talking about, then look up Dungeons and Dragons... Or YogsQuest.

http://rolz.org/group

There's a way to share dice rolls. Genius.

You can even add your Character Sheet to your Minecraft UI with the Macro UI Editor.

#11 tudexd

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Posted 06 September 2013 - 08:26 PM

Wonderbolts meet DnD?

 

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Posted 07 September 2013 - 05:34 AM

That's what I'm saiyan! A seal of approval from Tudexd? This is a rare and wonderful thing indeed.

#13 Seras Victoria

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Posted 07 September 2013 - 12:28 PM

I've never really played DnD so i'd need to talk to you properly about it. Maybe on Skype later if you're free and you can explain it a bit further.




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