Norako

Hey guys, sorry about the lag. I've been going back to college and moving in and whatnot. Also one of my friends just died recently, so I've had a lot on my plate these days. I will try to finish what I can but I just want to let you all know what is taking so long.

Personally I think I'm over-doing it in terms of planning. What do you guys think?

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." -William Shakespeare Introduction: This is a futuristic MLP role-play. Unlike Fallout: Equestria though, it is not post-apocalyptic. In fact, it is more like a utopia than your typical distopia. The purpose is, to grant as wide of a sci-fi setting to the players as they would like. I also just think that post-apocalyptic science fiction is just so overdone that it is to be expected. At any rate, this world takes place in Equestria's distant future, where technology has advanced so much that the world is forever changed. The government has evolved alongside the technology but the question of the age is: who has evolved with it and who has not? This RP will deal with very Asimovian issues of identity and synthetic lifeforms (like I-Robot) as organics and synthetics begin to co-exist. This isn't necessarily a Grimdark RP, nor is it casual. I am making a world here, for you to interact in as you see fit. Plain and simple. Setting: Equestria is now governed by the G.E.F. (Grand Equine Union) and has been ever since the princesses vanished some 4000 years ago. Technology has surpassed magic and is powered by drawing pure magical energy from the plane of mana, the source of magic. The high energy efficiency of magical power has allowed for leaps and bounds in battery development as well as electrical power output, no longer requiring unicorns to power machines themselves. Not only that, but ponies have colonized the moon itself, finding that, in fact, the universe was not terra-centric. Over the four millenia, ponies have split the atom, developed nano technology, built a space elevator, constructed arcologies, and developed artificial intelligence. The world is at peace as a new mindset of harmony and peace has made itself clear as far more beneficial than tyranny and strife. All is well it seems. Except for one thing. Synthetic life has diversified and developed so much and so soon, that ponies are now struggling to classify them as mere machines anymore. To make matters more confusing, now ponies are augmenting themselves with cybernetic implants for various purposes, such as increased strength, artificial wings, and such. Organic life is in a time of reconciliation with its metal children, and it is in the age of automata that you enter. Mood-Music: Character Creation: Playable Races: Please do not ask to play a changeling, alicorn, dragon, or bat-pony. The reason for this is because either too little is known about them to have any real consistency about how to play them and/or because it would just make other players jealous if you play a very powerful character. Organic: Synthetic: Augment Platforms: You can remove organic body parts of your character and replace them with synthetic ones to enhance your abilities. However, there are drawbacks to having too many augments in your character. If no part of you is organic anymore, then you cease to be a cyborg and are now an android, a synthetic imitation of life. This will have SEVERE social consequences if it is discovered as you will lose most civil rights (attorney, freedom of speech, etc) since you are not technically defined as a person by the current state of the law. So buyer beware when augmenting yourself. Augment platforms are a basic set of implants that are surgically added to your character's body, they enable compatibility to certain types of augmentations and more specific ones allow for more augmentations of a certain category. You may take a general platform and pick and choose as you go, or take a specialized platform and choose from a branch of progressively more expensive augmentations. You also have to pay to have them installed too, the process is quick these days but isn't cheap and your implants are tracked by the local police so if you lose all organic composition in you, they will know. Unless you try the black-market, but then you run the risk of being harvested for organs and dying on the table. The risks and choices are yours for the taking. Augment Points (AP): To cybernetically augment your character, you first have to purchase a cybernetics platform to be installed in their body. This allows for compatible hardware to be installed in the future. However, each platform can only run so many augmentations based on the quality of the model. Cheaper ones cannot run as many augments as more expensive ones. The tradeoff is cost versus power. Each platform has a maximum number of AP that can be used by the augmentations. If you go over this number, the augment won't even be installed in the first place since it could septic and hurt your character. Generic Platforms: These platforms can accept any kind of augmentation as long as it is compatible with the platform itself. Unlike specialty platforms, these receive no bonuses on their AP. Combat Platforms: These platforms are especially made for combat and fighting and as a result they get bonus AP for combat augmentations. These platforms are heavily regulated by the government and require special licenses or permissions to be installed. Utility Platforms: These platforms are especially made for various specific tasks and as a result they get bonus AP for utility augmentations. *NOTE: Taking a break. Will finish this later and over time.*

So is that everything you want on those? Is there anything else I should know about?

It's okay. And don't beat yourself up about it. I just don't like feeling taken advantage of is all.

Well okay, but here's the thing, I can't work on your avatar forever. Now there are other people waiting, so you need to be sure that you know exactly what you want this time. Because I spent hours on that avatar, manually vectoring it in photoshop (which essentially means I had to re-draw it by tracing over the other image, curve by curve). It's a little well...insulting to have that hard work thrown in your face only to be expected to try again, all while doing this for free for people. Do you see what I mean? So I will do one more free avatar for you, then I have to move on okay?

Black? That's strange...let me try attaching it here. And well I figured it'd make for a good avatar to have it like that, like a bust portrait almost. This also took me a long time to vector out and color and everything, plus I really had no idea what you wanted apart from sapphire in the avatar so unless you have a more specific idea in mind I really don't know what you're after apart from just uploading the image of Sapphire as your avatar.

Wait so, does that mean you don't like it?

Wait...so if they are already functional then where exactly on the post editor are they? Let me post a screencap or two:

I think that the title pretty much sums up what my suggestion is here. But in case it isn't lemme elaborate: Spoiler Tags One thing I think would not only help users make posts "shorter" for those who want to skim but would also enable others to compress longer strands of content would be to include spoiler tag functionality in the site. Plenty of other forums use this already. Partially for the eponymous reason, but also for threads with lots of images in them (putting them in spoiler tags can prevent people with slower connections from lagging out with all the images).[/b] Video Embedding I think it might be advantageous for the site to enable the video-embedding feature for message board discussions for several reasons. One is that I think that since this is a brony (and pegasister) forum that allow us to share videos on here might make talking about the show not only more fun (forum responses) but also easier to exemplify (posting clips from the show to reference things potentially). Another is that lots of other sites already allow this, and enabling this feature here might make this forum a bit more competitive against others. Meaning, if users have more options to play with when posting, it means they have more freedom to work with, which may easily be appealing to potential users.

Ok well here you go, I had to re-vector it since the resolution of the original image was so low but nevertheless here you are: Full-Size: http://imgur.com/9CUPesy 150x150 pixels: I think the image links on those ran out, could you please re-post them as attachments instead?

Sure I can get to work on that, just let me finish Sapphire's avatar and I'll start on yours . Lol I think I know how Rarity felt now ^.^. But I think you'll like what I have in the works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PvDPOT3_Y0

Um okay then. So do you have anything else you want me to include in it apart from her?

Well that all depends, do you have something specific in mind or do you just want me to make something photogenic with Sapphire in it?

Do you want me to just use the image you gave me? I can just make a transparent image of her if you want. Or do you want something fancier?