The New Elements Of Harmony (Reboot) OOC

[Techno Universal 2,575]

1 minute ago, Maple Bat said:

@Techno Universal

Might I ask... how?

I mean no pony can see from Ponyville to manehatten. It's just too far away.

Well because Ennex has practically the same power level as Techno now they are actually locked in a mental connection with each other. So Techno and Ennex can see each other through the link and they can spy on each other through it to!

[nx9100 1,013]

Just now, Techno Universal said:

Well because Ennex has practically the same power level as Techno now they are actually locked in a mental connection with each other. So Techno and Ennex can see each other through the link and they can spy on each other through it to!

I still need to figure out how to sever or block that...  lol

[Techno Universal 2,575]

1 minute ago, nx9100 said:

I still need to figure out how to sever or block that...  lol

Yeah that's something that Techno can't even figure out!

[Buck Testa 5,505]

13 minutes ago, nx9100 said:

I still need to figure out how to sever or block that...  lol

Aside from Agent Smithing peeps what else can the Prime one do? 

Edited November 3, 2017 by Buck Testa

[Will Guide 21,362]

Remember that today I can't post. Day at Disneyland.

[Maple Bat 3,568]

1 hour ago, nx9100 said:

I still need to figure out how to sever or block that...  lol

Well you could always do it right back ennex, Lol

[Buck Testa 5,505]

@Techno Universal A good rule of thumb to gauge whether something is op or not is to ask these questions: Does this power cut out potential roleplaying? Or, does it make something so easy that it renders the situation pointless?

Auto converting Changelings eliminates potential roleplaying of converting them and renders the war with changelings pointless. About as much as mesmerizing and trapping them in invincible capes of holding did.

Edited November 8, 2017 by Buck Testa

[Techno Universal 2,575]

5 minutes ago, Buck Testa said:

@Techno Universal A good rule of thumb to gauge whether something is op or not is to ask these questions: Does this power cut out potential roleplaying? Or, does it make something so easy that it renders the situation pointless?

Auto converting Changelings eliminates potential roleplaying of converting them and renders the war with changelings pointless. About as much as mesmerizing and trapping them in invincible capes of holding did.

Yeah to be honest I'm actually getting better over time at avoiding OP things! Like I'm already starting to fix the Changeling reformation OP issue by simply making it take a while for it to work! Anyways I have been finding ways to get around things that might be a little OP and it's been working really well!

[Buck Testa 5,505]

1 minute ago, Techno Universal said:

Yeah to be honest I'm actually getting better over time at avoiding OP things! Like I'm already starting to fix the Changeling reformation OP issue by simply making it take a while for it to work! Anyways I have been finding ways to get around things that might be a little OP and it's been working really well!

You still want to make sure that people get to RP the conversion. Even if it's longer than instantaneously you're still making it too easy to convert and end the changeling war. This should involve deplomacy and dialogue, not quick fixes.

[Techno Universal 2,575]

4 minutes ago, Buck Testa said:

You still want to make sure that people get to RP the conversion. Even if it's longer than instantaneously you're still making it too easy to convert and end the changeling war. This should involve deplomacy and dialogue, not quick fixes.

Yeah or maybe the changelings get changed back only to be taken control by Ennex soon after! So yes equalisers like that often work really well to!

[Maple Bat 3,568]

1 minute ago, Buck Testa said:

You still want to make sure that people get to RP the conversion. Even if it's longer than instantaneously you're still making it too easy to convert and end the changeling war. This should involve deplomacy and dialogue, not quick fixes.

Or violence... If necessary that is 

Just now, Techno Universal said:

Yeah or maybe the changelings get changed back only to be taken control by Ennex soon after! So yes equalisers like that often work really well to!

Oh goodness The back and forth this could lead to would be quite the battle

[Buck Testa 5,505]

4 minutes ago, Techno Universal said:

Yeah or maybe the changelings get changed back only to be taken control by Ennex soon after! So yes equalisers like that often work really well to!

That is an idea. Feel kinda bad for the changelings having next to no autonomy in this though. 

 

[Will Guide 21,362]

@Maple Bat @Techno Universal @Buck Testa

*After seeing the OP debacle involving the Changelings*

Hey, as long as I can play as Thorax being among the first to change and help Will take baby steps toward the liberation of the Changelings, I'll be happy.

[Techno Universal 2,575]

2 minutes ago, WiiGuy2014 said:

@Maple Bat @Techno Universal @Buck Testa

*After seeing the OP debacle involving the Changelings*

Hey, as long as I can play as Thorax being among the first to change and help Will take baby steps toward the liberation of the Changelings, I'll be happy.

Yeah so since Thorax is going to be like a new main protagonist in the RP we'll probably make sure that Thorax is the only changeling to escape Ennex's control!

[Buck Testa 5,505]

21 hours ago, WiiGuy2014 said:

*After seeing the OP debacle involving the Changelings*

I wouldn't say it's a debacle per say. @Techno Universal is learning how to rp better is all. An rp like this with pretty lax rules is a good place to do that in. 

@Maple Bat I like how Primrose keeps unintentionally freaking your character out. He has no clue about how ponies are typically scared of dragons, or that spontaneously changing size is something ponies would be alarmed over.  

 

[Techno Universal 2,575]

4 minutes ago, Buck Testa said:

I wouldn't say it's a debacle per say. @Techno Universal is learning how to rp better is all. An rp like this with pretty lax rules is a good place to do that in. 

@Maple Bat I like how Primrose keeps unintentionally freaking your character out. He has no clue about how ponies are typically scared of dragons, or that spontaneously changing size is something ponies would be alarmed over.  

 

Yeah really it's normal to have 16 year olds who are still largely learning about everything. So really I'm not only leaning how to RP better but I'm also leaning how to be a better person! Plus even with the capes in the RP they are allowing me to see your personalities through your reactions and options of the capes. The capes seriously can be a great thing in RPs for observing the psychology of other players in the RP!

[Maple Bat 3,568]

42 minutes ago, Buck Testa said:

 I like how Primrose keeps unintentionally freaking your character out. He has no clue about how ponies are typically scared of dragons, or that spontaneously changing size is something ponies would be alarmed over. 

It does make for some humor between the 2

Like how Primrose has never dealt with ponies, Maple's never really been around dragons. Well not for long of course sometimes she'd head to the dragonlands to speak with Ember and then leave so Spike and Ember are the only really dragons she's interacted with.

[Buck Testa 5,505]

1 hour ago, Maple Bat said:

It does make for some humor between the 2

Like how Primrose has never dealt with ponies, Maple's never really been around dragons. Well not for long of course sometimes she'd head to the dragonlands to speak with Ember and then leave so Spike and Ember are the only really dragons she's interacted with.

I'd like to make a distinction between Eastern/Wingless dragons like Primrose and Winged Dragons like in the show. It's part of my headcanon about how Spike is actually a different variety of dragon than winged ones. Sort of a Unicorn like variant on dragons with the magic fire and what not. 

[Buck Testa 5,505]

Also, I want to put my hat in the ring to play Sombra. I do not buy that he'd quietly let himself be knocked out of power. 

[nx9100 1,013]

4 minutes ago, Buck Testa said:

Also, I want to put my hat in the ring to play Sombra. I do not buy that he'd quietly let himself be knocked out of power. 

yeah, i was kinda vague on what happened.  wanted to leave it open-ended, in case we wanted/needed to bring him back.  i wouldn't mind you playing as him, since @Maple Bat is also doing Chrysalis.  just gotta figure out exactly what happened to him so you can take over him.  

give me a few to think it out....

Edited November 9, 2017 by nx9100

[Buck Testa 5,505]

10 minutes ago, nx9100 said:

yeah, i was kinda vague on what happened.  wanted to leave it open-ended, in case we wanted/needed to bring him back.  i wouldn't mind you playing as him, since @Maple Bat is also doing Chrysalis.  just gotta figure out exactly what happened to him so you can take over him.  

give me a few to think it out....

Shot you a pm, we can brainstorm it. 

With me at the helm, Sombra will Definitely be back, and he'll want a few words with a certain usurper. 

[Will Guide 21,362]

3 hours ago, Buck Testa said:

I'd like to make a distinction between Eastern/Wingless dragons like Primrose and Winged Dragons like in the show. It's part of my headcanon about how Spike is actually a different variety of dragon than winged ones. Sort of a Unicorn like variant on dragons with the magic fire and what not. 

Aren't Eastern Dragons more serpent-like? You know, more like snakes with mustaches like Steven Magnet from the 2nd episode and the episode with the Donkey wedding.

Personally, can't Spike have of both Western and Eastern Dragons? Wouldn't that make him more unique to the rest of Dragons we've seen?

[Buck Testa 5,505]

Just now, WiiGuy2014 said:

Aren't Eastern Dragons more serpent-like? You know, more like snakes with mustaches like Steven Magnet from the 2nd episode and the episode with the Donkey wedding.

Personally, can't Spike have of both Western and Eastern Dragons? Wouldn't that make him more unique to the rest of Dragons we've seen?

I like the way you think my man. Also yes, Eastern dragons are more serpent like, just like Primrose is. Spike could be a different variant. 

[Will Guide 21,362]

@Buck Testa

If you're going to do Sombra based on his depiction in the comics, you better be prepared to provide backstory on him. Because I am not at all familiar with the comics past #24 or past the first 12 issues of Friends Forever; just the show's version of Sombra is all I know about him.

[Buck Testa 5,505]

Sombra is on the battlefield y'all, and he is out for blooooood. 

 

After getting his physical body destroyed via a lava bath, courtesy of Ennex, he's now rocking his all natural Umbrum look, and all the badness that entails. 

Like in the show and comics, his major weakness is intense harmonious magic, a la Crystal heart, Tree of Harmony, ect

Ennex doesn't have access to any of that though, so he MAY wanna consider a truce before he gets iced lol. 

 

Also word of warning to magic users, I WILL be employing that nasty Crystallizing horn ability. 

 

4 minutes ago, WiiGuy2014 said:

@Buck Testa

If you're going to do Sombra based on his depiction in the comics, you better be prepared to provide backstory on him. Because I am not at all familiar with the comics past #24 or past the first 12 issues of Friends Forever; just the show's version of Sombra is all I know about him.

No prob.