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Post by Kira Yamato on Feb 21, 2005 21:00:35 GMT -5
Not all of them though, but my apologies all the same. I was only kidding. ^^;; I suppose Kira is more to blame for that, actually, as he owns all of the SEED cast, and barely uses any of them. >_> 1) I do NOT own all of the SEED cast 2) I DO use them occasionally, I'm just currently very busy so I barely have time to use them 3) I wouldn't be talking Seth
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Post by Signal on Feb 21, 2005 22:43:20 GMT -5
Anyway seeing how some matters have been uprooted i guess we can discuss more about the claiming and reclaiming if ever that character was taken to you by use of name as stated on the previous posts.
I think the idea was fairly balanced in a way, though at some point like as said the said person leaves the SC after claiming the character/characters which takes a month or two before it gets freelisted then comes the other people running after the said character/characters.
A given solution so far i have in mind is having the "Main" character root in which these characters cannot be taken even by username advantage unless the player RPs them for a considerable amount of time like say 6 months or so just to see if they are actually making effort for building that character's storyline up.
Another one is for the people to at least ask to claim the character they want to which other people will likely agree on the terms of ownership.
What about those multiple cross-dimension characters?(ex. Wataru, Ayanami Rei, etc...)
Well considering the possible loopholes regarding these characters i guess a probable solution is for the players to state which character and how they came into claim. Since these can be acquired into so many thinkable ways.
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Post by Yanbetari on Feb 21, 2005 23:35:39 GMT -5
A given solution so far i have in mind is having the "Main" character root in which these characters cannot be taken even by username advantage unless the player RPs them for a considerable amount of time like say 6 months or so just to see if they are actually making effort for building that character's storyline up. Except, how are they supposed to RP the given character when they can't claim them until after 6 months of RPing? Another option would be to say that concerning characters, a user had to use a given character to RP or in a match at least once every 3 months to maintain a claim on him or her. However, I can see problems here as well when people take all their characters and have them all show up in the SCW, do something for one post, then vanish until the deadline approaches again.
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Post by Signal on Feb 22, 2005 0:07:20 GMT -5
Thats what i was trying to tell, if they can't RP it for quite some time then its freelisted or taken back by the previous owner.
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Post by Yanbetari on Feb 22, 2005 0:27:43 GMT -5
No, the point I'm making is that if a person is required to RP a character for 6 months before taking control of it, then you simply can't get the character. You can't RP a character until you own him, but you can't claim ownership of a character someone else owns until you RP them for 6 months. A catch-22. Of course, you might find someone willing to give up, or share ownership of a character, but then this 6 month period doesn't really do anything. If they're letting you RP someone for 6 months, most likely, they're going to give it to you anyway, or at the least keep him shared. And if the new guys leaves/quits/goes inactive, then you just un-share him, and we're back to where we began.
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Post by Signal on Feb 22, 2005 0:35:13 GMT -5
Good point! (smacks his head for stress thinking) *ouch!*
Well i guess that would work out
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Post by Arad Baranga on Feb 22, 2005 1:51:19 GMT -5
Seth, Johnny's idea was that you could claim all the guys you want, and then lay a solid, unshakable claim to one or two of them. Rooster then later suggested in chat that the number could be equal to how many subclasses you have, and I like that even more.
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Post by Kyousuke Sumeragi on Feb 22, 2005 19:38:54 GMT -5
After reading almost all of the posts, here's what I have concluded and my thoughts:
1. Yes, forcing everyone to completely use original characters is a nice solution. But, this one hurts and is abit broken. Some of the SCW players or character owners here, just wants to RP their favorite or represented character, as well as making a differently alternative storylines about this. Also using an all-original characters is quite, especially in the naming department. (Yes. My ARC is mostly 98% Original Charactes while 2% are the existing characters of anime/tv shows, it's rather hard to pull out a some names out of thin air.)
2. If a particular person appears with a particular character name appears. I think we should give that person a limit of 2 months to verify if that person will be an active one or not. And if the person is active, I think it's best to give him/her the character.
Example, if Kira owns 'Athrun Zala' as a sub-chara, then a newbie that goes by the name 'Athrun Zala' shows up... Of course, the current rules say that Kira should give up the character, but if we're going to apply this one, the newbie named 'Athrun Zala' will be given a time of 2 months to show activity in the SCW. If the newbie named 'Athrun Zala' fulfills the 2 month requirement, he gets the rights and ownership of the character and Kira has to give him up. But if the newbie named 'Athrun Zala', fails to fulfill the requirement, Kira will still own the character.
Yes, alittle harsh it may be, but this is the best idea I've come up, along with some of your cooments.
3. If a newbie enters with the same name or a variations of this of an existing character, he/she doesn't get the right of that character. The rights and ownership goes to the currently owner. So this is basically a first-come first-serve. This, is also to prevent the fellow members like Quattro, Zengar (not-Berlap), mafty, Ryune, Shuu, and others, to give up their characters, SINCE they have rights and ownerships of them.
4. As for claiming and re-claiming of characters. One idea, in mind is having you guys having some negotiations with that person(s) who owns the character(s) you want.. Like some of you guys do.
5. As for the inactive members, who are long-gone with posting the absence thread. You can claim their characters after 3 months. The characters of the accounts who has no activity in SC for more than 3 months, are now available for claiming (especially, the ones in the last page of the ARC Board).
6. Hmmm.... For protection, yeah, I think, the number of classes you own should be the number of character you permanently have protection. And I like the sound what Rooster's suggestion and improvement of Johnny's suggestion.
Seth> That goes with Shuu too. I quite remember during the early when we have like 5 Shuus running around the board... -_-;;
Maullar> Actually we had an 'Akito Tenkawa' once that goes by another name. Too bad, he's no longer active. :/
And... that's what I can think of right now. Comments?
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Post by MISTER TIBBS on Feb 22, 2005 19:41:49 GMT -5
I like the protection thing quite a bit. Lets go with that.
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Post by Kyousuke Sumeragi on Feb 22, 2005 19:55:40 GMT -5
Oh yeah, something to add. I think, shared characters shouldn't be protected. :/
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Post by Radius on Feb 22, 2005 19:57:38 GMT -5
I like the protection idea too.
Though I still think the Einsts/Clones/Not-so-alternate universes stuff is still kinda cheap and cop-out-ty. That's a word. *runs away*
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Post by MISTER TIBBS on Feb 22, 2005 19:59:11 GMT -5
I asked permission from the original character owners to make my einst versions, at least.
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Post by Radius on Feb 22, 2005 20:05:51 GMT -5
I'm probably wrong on this, and only going off a memory of what I heard in channel once, but aren't there different timelines in some of the SRW's (And possibly in Gundam)? Where one character does something, but in another version does something else?
That doesn't mean that people can claim copies of the character right?
(Don't hit me if I'm wrong, just asking a question.)
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Post by Arad Baranga on Feb 22, 2005 20:39:14 GMT -5
I think it'd be good to have this as a permission thing save in situations where the character and his double both appear in the same story. Like the Yamato versions of the Nadesico cast in the manga, or Trunks and Future Trunks from DBZ, or Rei Ayanami 1 and 2.
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Post by Umbaglo on Feb 22, 2005 20:41:27 GMT -5
There have indeed been SRWs where characters have acted somewhat differently from either the source or another game. For example, Neo Zeon in D.
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