I would love to, but every time I get on, nobody's there. Once, when I was in the channel, Buckethead(Sephirothishere) was there, and I talked to him for a bit, but then had to run a bunch of errands, and that screwed my day up. I have had no time to do anything lately. Yes, I agree it sucks, yes I agree that my ideas are not as fleshed out as I would like them. I do not think however that they are in direct conflict with anything else.
There are a few things I do have issues with, most of them are simply because I have my own ideas as to what is good story, and what makes a good world.
The problem is definitely communication. I have very strong ideas about how the story begins, and very strong general ideas about how it progresses. But the specifics about what happens after the beginning, I don't care. I want it to be on a space station, but what goes on there could be anything. After that I'll merely be quality control. I've seen a lot of corny and fake sounding ideas in other games, other projects, and other things in general. Everything about this game should sound like it could happen.
There will be a main bad guy, but I don't want him/her to seem like a bad guy. I want everything about him/her to seem like anyone could do it. They should not be insane, (that happens way, way, way too much in games) their actions should be completely reasonable. If you were on their side, they would seem like a good guy.
I'm sorry if I've shot down ideas. There are only two ideas I have completely shot down, and I suppose those were the only ideas you guys had worked out. The first was about the cat people planet. In retrospect, now that I think of it more critically, yes, it could work. Hey, Moogles worked for Final Fantasy, cat people can work here. I didn't like the idea at first because it mostly just seemed silly. But since then, I've grown less angry about things, and I think I can see it more clearly now. Cat people can work, but don't put them everywhere.
However as for the cat girl character, I think it would be cool to have a character who was originally a human, who was transformed into a cat girl. That way, she still knows what the party is after, and can relate to them perfectly, but at the same time, has something else going on, and has an ounce of storyline even before we begin. It could be by genetic experiment, or by Magic from Orisus. In any case, it could be fixed, but not easily. Possibly not even by the end of the game.
The second idea that I shot down was the one I feel most strongly about. I don't want the main character to get the first quest. I want the main character to get his quest from other characters. It seems like its always the main character who's either doing everything, or getting orders from some guy we can't talk to. I want the main character to be nothing more than the guy we follow. He won't be the guy that knows whats going on, but he'll be the guy that can figure it out the best. No one will really know whats going on. Any space man who comes to earth from whatever planet should not be a main character. The main characters should consist of only those who are in progress to becoming great, not those who are great already.
I like the idea about five worlds. One of them should be Earth, because thats where the adventure starts. Then one should be Orisus, because its awesome. Then based on the storyline of Orisus, there's a planet of Elves somewhere out there. Whether or not they get involved may or may not happen... thats for the story to decide. A planet of cat people as I said in my previous paragraph, is cool. That leaves one planet undecided. That could be anything. The planet where the evil resides, a planet without life, or perhaps thats where all the little green men live.
Whatever they are, they exist, and in the present, maybe only a couple are space travelers. But in the future, most, if not all of them have space flight capabilities. I'm thinking the cat people could be less developed in the present, but when people go to visit them, they discover space travel and use it religiously, rather than commercially.
I want to say more on this, but I want to limit the size of my posts.
edit: Crap! I nearly forgot to say when I'd be available.
I will be available from when I say so, until 2 hours afterwards. I may show up a little early, or a little late. I will change my nickname in the channel to AwesomeHost when I'm not there. When I am, it will be Kryton87. After two hours, I make no guarantees. And of course, there will be pockets where I'm going to the bathroom or something like that, hopefully nothing longer than 10 minutes. All times are in Pacific Standard Time, and Greenwich Mean Time, and on a 24 hour scale. I don't know where everyone else is, but I'm in California, and I have school. Thats my reasoning.
Monday, I will be here and online after 22:00 PST, or 6:00 GMT.
Tuesday, I will be here and online after 19:00 PST or 3:00 GMT.
Wednesday, I will be here and online after 16:00 PST or 0:00 GMT.
Thursday, I will be here and online after 16:00 PST or 0:00 GMT.
Friday, I will be here and online after 16:00 PST or 0:00 GMT.
As said previously, all times are approximate, but I'll try to leave my computer on as much as possible, and keep conversation logs so that I can go back and check if anyone said anything I should know. That should keep me informed. I hope it works.
I'm not trying intentionally to make things harder. If there is anything you are really intent upon that you think I'm being an ass about, let me know. And when I say "you", I mean everyone helping out with the project.
I really need to stop talking now before I make an even bigger fool out of myself.
edit again: Should I rewrite my posts and make them more concise?
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