Hello, looking for Trek RP

[Elkwell H. Candlekeep 0]

Hello

I'm a long time fan of the franchise and I've roleplayed for years in a few different ways and world's. I googled Trek forum RP and it took me here.

I was wondering a bit what sort of RP you folks do? If it's all events and action or if there's also downtime RP. Do you keep characters for a long time or are they more campaign based and such? 

Im from Norway, and I assume most players here might be USA based. Most events would perhaps difficult for me to join. (And i wouldn't want to hold up RP during events by being asleep while everyone else is at battle stations). But I'm very happy playing less "important" characters during downtime, as that is generally what I play in text based RP (I really enjoy getting to know characters, and building relationships through RP). 

Hope to hear from you folks 😀 also, very sorry if I have posted this in the wrong place. I am a little tired and had some trouble navigating the site. (It looks really cool.)

[McFly 0]

Hi! Welcome to STSF! We're an RP group that dates back all the way to the late 90's on AOL. If you don't know what that is it was an early ISP with its own eco-system that included chat rooms. Anyway that's all to say we've been around for a while. Currently we have four ongoing sims which have all moved their gameplay to Discord. I'll post a link at the bottom.

In the forums under Advanced Sims you can see samples of what our games are like. We call them sims (short for simulations) because that's the way they're played. You have a character set in the world of Star Trek and that character lives their life as if they were aboard a starship or station. They have their duties as StarFleet officers, they follow chain of command and build relationships with the people around them.

Each sim will run story plots generally laid out by the GM (game master) and those will take place over the course of many months since each sim is only played for one hour once a week. Depending on where the story is going the sim can be anywhere from heavy action to figuring out something sciencey to away missions to everyone sitting in the mess hall having dinner and any and everything in between.

And your character stays as long as you do. Some people have chosen to change their character but that's rare. Most people stick with the same character for years. I myself have been using the same one since I started back in 2003. You can always develop side characters to enhance your experience but they're not used at the expense of your main character.

Hope that helps explain how we play. It's not difficult at all, just takes a couple of sims to get used to.

And yes, all our sims are played in the evening in US time zones. A Google search says Norway is in the CET time zone, so you're looking at Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday 4am CET.

Unfortunately we don't have anything else going on at the moment that would accommodate better. I can't imagine anyone willing to get up at 4am just to play a game but if you're interested we'll be here. :D

 

https://discord.gg/NWmEjkb2

[Elkwell H. Candlekeep 0]

Aha! Thanks for taking the time to answer so in-depth. That's pretty amazing though, it having gone on so long. I really hope it goes on gor at least that long onwards. But yes, it would probably be much too late/early for me. 

 

Thanks again for your time 😊