Another new cadet?

[Dave Doss 0]

Hello. I was scanning the web for other trek sims and I found yours. I run a forum based sim called the Poseidon and I wanted to see how others simmed and perhaps take some of what I learn there and help it stay alive.

 

You seem like you have a good player base as well as structure so I would like to join your group as a cadet through the academy. I don't know how long I'll stay, but if I don't feel I can be a productive and active member, I will be sure not to move on beyond graduation.

 

I have 3 years of forum simming experience. I've also RPed with the RPG-X mod for Elite Force several times and I've been running my forum simm for the last 2 years.

 

I hope I can get a good grip on your system. I will attempt to join the academy RP thursday. I know I need to put cdt in front of my name and I have read all the information on the main page.

Anything else I should know before I start?

[will_marx 0]

::clears throat::

Welcome!

 

Two things to remember: 1) Any Academy hosted by STSF N'Dak is a guaranteed suicide mission [And that's a direct quote from his signature]. 2) Never compare the GMs to Captains Bligh or Queeg if you want to get graduate sometime before the turn of the century.

 

That being said, I'd recommend reading: How to sim, as well as: Tips from the Moose

 

Also, adding "Cadet" in front of your name isn't really necessary. Some of the members prefer to place their rank with their name, but, as I said, it isn't really necessary. In the Academies, everyone's a Cadet, unless they have an STSF in front of their names.

[Dave Doss 0]

Thanks. I think the first link is wrong as it has nothing to do with "how to sim" but I have read all of moose's tips. Very well written and they definetly apply to all sims.

 

I look forward to trying this live simming out.

[Col. C.E. Harper 0]

I think will was trying to give you this link: http://www.stsf.net/howto.php

[will_marx 0]

I think will was trying to give you this link: http://www.stsf.net/howto.php

 

Son of a fatherless Ferengi. I have no idea it got corrupted.

[doug.t 0]

hi welcome to stsf cadet hope to see ya aroud

[Grom 0]

Welcome aboard! I hope you enjoy your time here. :D

[Dave Doss 0]

Funny story:

I got up early so I can join the 10am RP.

10 am rolls around and I jump in, wondering why it's empty.

10:20 rolls around and only then do I see the "PM" on the side.

 

True story.

[Dave Doss 0]

Having done a full session today I have one question:

Is the plot ever continued? And if so, when? The next day? Or next week?

[Greg Nirvana 0]

Having done a full session today I have one question:

Is the plot ever continued? And if so, when? The next day? Or next week?

I don't believe so, but to be honest if we did try to continue the plot, sometimes it would be impossible to continue, such as one time we all went to check out tribbles that developed vocal chords, and in the end we all fell asleep because the music made us fall into a deep sleep =P

[will_marx 0]

Having done a full session today I have one question:

Is the plot ever continued? And if so, when? The next day? Or next week?

 

Very rarely. Continued plots are usually an Advanced Sim thing. But occasionally they are continued the following week if all cadets and slumming advanced simmers agree to it.

[Kansas_Jones 0]

Very rarely. Continued plots are usually an Advanced Sim thing. But occasionally they are continued the following week if all cadets and slumming advanced simmers agree to it.

 

Why, advanced players never slum in the acads! :-D

[Dave Doss 0]

Well thank you all for your warm welcome and your hospitality.

I will not be joining you as I do not feel comfortable with the system you use. But I have learned a few things. I wish you well in your endevors.

[Kansas_Jones 0]

Well thank you all for your warm welcome and your hospitality.

I will not be joining you as I do not feel comfortable with the system you use. But I have learned a few things. I wish you well in your endevors.

 

That brings me to a general shout out to the community (I don't think the post will be mis construed as "rude" with regard to the departed Dave Doss).

 

I know that online RPGing takes many forms - PBeM, Message Board, Live Chat, and all use fan fiction writing to further push along the plots.

 

I did about a two to four month search for a Trek RPG site before jumping in with STSF.

 

I checked out PBeM as well as Message Board sites. To be honest, *I* didn't feel comfortable with the email and message board ones at a glance. Message board seemed to be stop, start, stop, start, and "rough" with regard to plotting. And the email version would just bomb your inbox with the influx; I get just enough (coherent) reading with the fiction stories following the plots for STSF.

 

With STSF, you enter the chat, and take part in a real time RPG with other players. It is spontaneous, rather then waiting on the GM to enter a new plot point on the message board or through the PBeM. Is it possible it may be weeks before a plot moves forward, and what happens when no one "plays"? I'm thinking the plot just stalls out?

 

Someday, I may be involved with PBeM or Message board versions - it's all in the family so to speak. But overall, my role play version of choice is the live chat/text based/fan fiction version that STSF employs. Best of all worlds.

 

Any PBeM's out there? Other Message boarders? Thoughts?

Edited July 16, 2007 by Kansas_Jones

[Joy 0]

Someday, I may be involved with PBeM or Message board versions - it's all in the family so to speak. But overall, my role play version of choice is the live chat/text based/fan fiction version that STSF employs. Best of all worlds.

 

Any PBeM's out there? Other Message boarders? Thoughts?

 

I'm pretty much with you. I'm relatively comfortable with the STSF format, but have been exploring other genres and other styles of late. I started in a Sidhe modern fantasy game that did stall out. Too few players. One couldn't advance the plot without the important ones being active. I'm in another modern fantasy game with a werewolf - vampire base, and tend to disconnect between plot lines. The central characters take a while to build the new plot up to speed. I often don't have a way to attach to the plot as things are getting started, and never really get more than a secondary role.

 

The usual Trek format gives a nice mix of real time free form and the polished writing one can do when a chat room isn't going a mile a minute. I'm comfortable here, generally. Still, different players will be comfortable with different styles.

[Aidan Driscol 0]

First of all, I don't think it's rude to say this is not my thing.

 

The challenge of STSF probably is that there are two parts to it. You get the live sim time where it comes close to improvised acting. And I think pretty much all of us know that sometimes you just can't come up with something good fast enough, and ten minutes later you think "man, if I had said this and that it would have turned out so much better." But the most enjoyable thing of this is that you have so much interaction with other players and get so much input from the outside. It just makes you realise how much of a team effort it is, and sometimes I'm amazed at how things can develop when I think I'm stuck with some problem or with a plot line simply by directly interacting with other players, sometimes a whole department.

 

And then there's the writing part with the logs (yes, I do realise that basically it's both writing, but you catch my drift;) where you have time to think about things but you don't get as much interaction with the other players. Sure, you get joint logs, but joint logs with more than 3 players are usually rather hard to set up.

 

For the cadets it's, of course, only the live sim part that they get to experience, but in my opinion it's really the combination of the two that makes an advanced sim.