07-11-2015, 09:37 PM
Don't see why they couldn't hang out on giant ships. The largest fictional space-ship I was able to find a size reference on was less than 50 miles from bow to stern. That seems reasonable for a large group thing. Just how big did you think spaceships got? I still think people will probably prefer their own 1 man to small group ships (like the Milano in Guardians of the Galaxy) to something giant, but it's not proscribed against.
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A 50 mile diameter planet COULD support a small to medium population of pretty much anything you wanted. Why you think that's "tiny", I have no idea. However, doing a bit of research into it, I feel like we should bump it up a bit. I'm thinking a 200 mile diameter planetoid would be fair, as it would have a surface area more or less half the size of Texas. That would easily support civilizations (if you really want to do that sort of thing). Small civilizations (think Namekians), but still civilizations.
More on the size thing. First, as per the Vehicle Rules, summoned mounts and vehicles have a max-speed of about 80 miles per hour. We're already likely gonna hafta have new speed rules in place for even the smallest size I could think of for the Space Verse. And that's just for travelling THROUGH space from one point to another. On the planets, I expect the speed rules to be the same as they are on the Verses.
Secondly, I like the idea of a smaller Space Verse. This is the Omniverse, not a normal world with normal rules. We're literally just trying to make a place where someone can do Space stuff, but we also don't want to just throw out something the same as every other Space roleplay around. There's not going to be super-old races out there, because it will be brand new. It won't operate on the same scale or rules as the Space we know, because it will be a Verse. Even the Oververse is, at its basest level, just another Verse to write in. Why should we adhere to the rules of a set Sci Fi setting? Or even the natural laws we know? Nothing to say we couldn't have, say, a Texas sized planet with a population on it. Omniphysics.
Lastly, every other Verse has a set-size. There's a border, or edge to every one. It may grow slightly as the Verse's affluence grows, but they're all more or less fixed areas.
I'm a firm believer in setting strict boundaries in the rules FIRST, then working towards more leniency as we see how things go. Why? Because we STILL have people who buck against the very fair rules we have now. Who'll push the letter of the law until the very edge, until turning back when they get caught. It's far easier to make things more free than to make them less. While I wish we could just be like: "Hey, don't be a chode" and people wouldn't be, from my previous experience on Staff, and what I've seen since I left... I doubt it.
There are a lot of rules already in place that place "restrictions" on what you can do. Paying OM for abilities your character has in your home source. Limits of Stats. Certain Powers not even existing. Plenty of Moves which aren't suitable for this site.
It seems weird that a full-sized universe would be such a point of contention. Like, everything else in the Omniverse is scaled down, including your own power. Why a Space Verse wouldn't be, when everything else is, seems stranger than a smaller Space Verse.
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A 50 mile diameter planet COULD support a small to medium population of pretty much anything you wanted. Why you think that's "tiny", I have no idea. However, doing a bit of research into it, I feel like we should bump it up a bit. I'm thinking a 200 mile diameter planetoid would be fair, as it would have a surface area more or less half the size of Texas. That would easily support civilizations (if you really want to do that sort of thing). Small civilizations (think Namekians), but still civilizations.
More on the size thing. First, as per the Vehicle Rules, summoned mounts and vehicles have a max-speed of about 80 miles per hour. We're already likely gonna hafta have new speed rules in place for even the smallest size I could think of for the Space Verse. And that's just for travelling THROUGH space from one point to another. On the planets, I expect the speed rules to be the same as they are on the Verses.
Secondly, I like the idea of a smaller Space Verse. This is the Omniverse, not a normal world with normal rules. We're literally just trying to make a place where someone can do Space stuff, but we also don't want to just throw out something the same as every other Space roleplay around. There's not going to be super-old races out there, because it will be brand new. It won't operate on the same scale or rules as the Space we know, because it will be a Verse. Even the Oververse is, at its basest level, just another Verse to write in. Why should we adhere to the rules of a set Sci Fi setting? Or even the natural laws we know? Nothing to say we couldn't have, say, a Texas sized planet with a population on it. Omniphysics.
Lastly, every other Verse has a set-size. There's a border, or edge to every one. It may grow slightly as the Verse's affluence grows, but they're all more or less fixed areas.
I'm a firm believer in setting strict boundaries in the rules FIRST, then working towards more leniency as we see how things go. Why? Because we STILL have people who buck against the very fair rules we have now. Who'll push the letter of the law until the very edge, until turning back when they get caught. It's far easier to make things more free than to make them less. While I wish we could just be like: "Hey, don't be a chode" and people wouldn't be, from my previous experience on Staff, and what I've seen since I left... I doubt it.
There are a lot of rules already in place that place "restrictions" on what you can do. Paying OM for abilities your character has in your home source. Limits of Stats. Certain Powers not even existing. Plenty of Moves which aren't suitable for this site.
It seems weird that a full-sized universe would be such a point of contention. Like, everything else in the Omniverse is scaled down, including your own power. Why a Space Verse wouldn't be, when everything else is, seems stranger than a smaller Space Verse.