spacevoidagents IPC Whitelist Application

[spacevoidagent]

BYOND Key: spacevoidagent

Character Names: Brayden Striker, STRYKER (AI), David Wolfe, Edward Greenwood, The Storm of Life and The Force that Pulls Stars.

Species you are applying to play: IPC

What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): N/A

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes, I have.

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Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph format. One paragraph minimum per question

Why do you wish to play this specific race:

Because I think the concept of playing a robot is pretty cool. They can behave differently depending on how they were programmed, taught, etc. I think the idea of being a Line Model IPC is cool, as you aren't really unique and could help shape your character. There also isn't much IPC's as I used to see, so I think it would be good to see some more variety.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:

This species isn't even a species, by definition. They are completely robotic, a Integrated Positronic Chassis. They take less Brute Damage, charge of of APC's instead of food, and in my opinion, look cool. They need a suit cooling unit to go E.V.A, and the opportunity to play 'Gimmicky' characters is possible due to the fact they are programmed to behave a certain way. IPCs could be slave-like, Hipsters, Normal Workers, Anti-Social, or overly-social, depending on their background/programming. The IPCs are really cool.

 

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Character Name: Evocatus Marcius

Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs

Evocatus, a strange name. In Ancient Rome, the Evocatus was a veteran of the Roman Army, whom had earned his military diploma for military service, but chose to re-enlist. They were paid twice the basic wage, and were exempt from regular duties such as manual labour. On Earth, not many people wanted to become Officers or Guards in the cities of Earth. There was plenty of crime, and other dark things that went on in the slums and cities across the world, that could make any mans hair stand up on the back of his neck. To counter crime and this problem, they resorted to IPC. The perfect machine for the job, feeling no fear, pain, or emotion, ordinary wounds to a human would have no effect on the IPC, knives would bounce off the metal frame, and bullets would deflect or simply stick into the metal. A small privately owned Defense Corporation was contacted to manufacture a line model to fulfill the duties required. They manufactured two legions (10,000) of the 'Legion Model IPC', who were based upon the Roman Army, from ranks such as Centurion, Legate, and Evocatus, to a special outer shell designed to copy the function and aesthetics of Roman Armor.

Evocatus Marcius was like the thousands of other 'Evocatus', the only thing different about him was his Unit-ID, Marcius. Each IPC of the 'Legion Model' has a classic roman name following their rank. Marcius' legion was assigned as a Elite Police Force on Ahdomai. They performed the duties of Riot Police, SWAT Teams, and small assault forces to take down drug rings and the such. He wasn't paid, as this was one of the driving factors why the Republic replaced human officers. He patrolled 18 hours a day, and charged for 4 hours. For the remaining two hours, he underwent routine training with the rest of his Legion. He was experienced, and did his purpose well. His amor was marked with the scars of previous conflicts. Scratches, dents, and empty bullet holes were plentiful on his armor, many of them coming from a Riot on Ahdomai. After 10 years of Service, the 'Legion Model IPCs' were released from duty, as the company that created them recently released a new line modeled after 21st Century Special Forces, who are much cheaper and efficient compared to the Legion Models. Marcius had no money to preserve himself, and couldn't find employment in Biesel, as his only experience was in Security. He learned of a opportunity aboard a NanoTrasen Research Station, and decided he could offer his services there as a security officer.

What do you like about this character? I like that he isn't a especially unique character in a way. He is one of hundreds of thousands llike him. He was programmed to be cold, fearless, and emotionless, to get the job done. He has no real personality other then small amounts of data and observation saved after years of service dealing with the multitude of Species on Biesel. He will make a good character, and I will do a good job of playing him.

How would you rate your role-playing ability? 8/10

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Notes: I like Roman Military fluff.

Edit: Fixed the Age, and adjusted the number of 'Legion Model IPCs' built from 100,00 to only 10,000, serving as a Elite Police Force instead of a General Police Patrol Force.

Edited September 29, 2015 by Guest

[jackfractal]

Your character's background is inconsistent with working AI's in human-space being relatively new. At most, your character could be maybe fifteen years old, if he were an older line model.

[Central]

Having seen your roleplay and your general attitude, I'm giving this a -1. Furthermore, with how you describe him, it makes no sense to have a huge line of IPCs like that. They're very expensive to make, requiring either an MMI (expensive, and a brain at that) or a positronic matrix (very, very expensive). If they were hammering out lots of something synthetic to guard a place, they'd be robots, not IPCs.

[spacevoidagent]

Your character's background is inconsistent with working AI's in human-space being relatively new. At most, your character could be maybe fifteen years old, if he were an older line model.

Sorry I tried to make a story that was based around the Roman Military but according to the lore. I thought a line model would explain why they are modeled after the Romans but now I see how hundreds of thousands isn't very plausible. Would a line model of a few thousand be more realistic? Designed just for escorts/military duties for embassies? Some help shaping a backstory would be helpful.

[spacevoidagent]

Having seen your roleplay and your general attitude, I'm giving this a -1. Furthermore, with how you describe him, it makes no sense to have a huge line of IPCs like that. They're very expensive to make, requiring either an MMI (expensive, and a brain at that) or a positronic matrix (very, very expensive). If they were hammering out lots of something synthetic to guard a place, they'd be robots, not IPCs.

Do you care to elaborate on my attitude and role-playing? Frankly I have never seen you on the server.

Also, how is my huge line of IPCs not make sense? I was using the Line Model description from the Wiki as a basis.

 

Line Model

Line model intelligences are produced for large-scale sale or distribution. Their core intelligence is identical to hundreds or thousands of others. They are often cold, as mass production files the uniqueness off of them, but some recent line models are designed to simulate a warm and friendly exterior.

[jackfractal]

The issue is with how long ago he was made. There are mass produced IPC's, but hundreds of thousands might be a little much, especially if it was a long time ago. For a mass produced police model like this, I'd say the maximum age would be fifteen years, and at that point, they'd still be fairly expensive, so they probably wouldn't be rolled out planet-wide. A more reasonable scenario would be having them be designed to act as a police force for a single city.

The average amount of police per 100 000 people is about 400 in areas with limited civil unrest, lets say 300 of those could be robots, the others would be administrators and investigative staff, and we divide the number in three because the robots can work continuously. In that case, a medium sized city of say ten million people would give you about 10,000 robots, enough to fill two legions.

[spacevoidagent]

The issue is with how long ago he was made. There are mass produced IPC's, but hundreds of thousands might be a little much, especially if it was a long time ago. For a mass produced police model like this, I'd say the maximum age would be fifteen years, and at that point, they'd still be fairly expensive, so they probably wouldn't be rolled out planet-wide. A more reasonable scenario would be having them be designed to act as a police force for a single city.

The average amount of police per 100 000 people is about 400 in areas with limited civil unrest, lets say 300 of those could be robots, the others would be administrators and investigative staff, and we divide the number in three because the robots can work continuously. In that case, a medium sized city of say ten million people would give you about 10,000 robots, enough to fill two legions.

Alright, thanks for your input. Age isn't a problem right? Because the age of a IPC doesn't really matter.

How about a legion or two was built to perform as Riot Police on Mendell City? It can be any city really, Mendell is the only one that I know of. They could be Riot Police or a SWAT team of sorts.

[Central]

I'm there quite often. But, Void, your general attitude here on the forums is enough for me to think you are not the type of player who could be trusted with a whitelist. You're flagrantly rude and dismissive, you attack people rather than their arguments, you ignore common decency when discussing things and jump right to offensive mannerisms. I believe I've seen one or two of your characters suffer from this - and it mostly revolves around your inability to handle Tajaran players and characters.

[spacevoidagent]

I'm there quite often. But, Void, your general attitude here on the forums is enough for me to think you are not the type of player who could be trusted with a whitelist. You're flagrantly rude and dismissive, you attack people rather than their arguments, you ignore common decency when discussing things and jump right to offensive mannerisms. I believe I've seen one or two of your characters suffer from this - and it mostly revolves around your inability to handle Tajaran players and characters.

Most of my posts relating to Tajaran are shitposts anyway. I dont recall attacking anyone and a

lot of my posts are constructive and relative to the topic.

Plus, I already have a Fiona whitelist, and people like my Diona characters so I think I can handle a whitelist.

[Central]

I would have to disagree with you, Void, most of your posts I've seen are not helpful at all and generally show the worst kind of attitude. My -1 remains.

[Guest]

Whether a shitposter is deserving of an in-game roleplay whitelist or not is irrelevant, because that's forum conduct and not in-game conduct. What matters is the quality of roleplay from the applicant.

Admittedly, however, I still haven't seen you very often in-game. I'd personally make an endorsement, but I haven't seen many of your characters and none of them come to mind. Going with neutral, I'm gonna have to see you more often before I make my own judgement.

[Japak121]

Going to agree with 1138 here and say a person's attitude on the forum's is not necessarily an indicator of there roleplay ability or there ability to play a whitelisted species.

Having said that, I have seen several of these character in-game and I have no negative memories of them at all. I don't think I've seen your Diona, but I have played under your AI multiple times and have worked with a few of those characters. You roleplay, keep things IC, and generally handle thing server-side pretty well, OOC conduct not withstanding.

I endorse this app on the grounds that you know and follow the server-side rules and you RP well, I wish I'd of seen more of diona though.

[spacevoidagent]

Whether a shitposter is deserving of an in-game roleplay whitelist or not is irrelevant, because that's forum conduct and not in-game conduct. What matters is the quality of roleplay from the applicant.

Admittedly, however, I still haven't seen you very often in-game. I'd personally make an endorsement, but I haven't seen many of your characters and none of them come to mind. Going with neutral, I'm gonna have to see you more often before I make my own judgement.

Do you remember Dragon? I think his name was. Me and you were both Nuke Ops one time. It was the round when we blew up the ERT when they arrived? We practically completed our objectives. I'm not sure if you remember it but I Do.

But thanks for taking a neutral look at things.

[spacevoidagent]

Going to agree with 1138 here and say a person's attitude on the forum's is not necessarily an indicator of there roleplay ability or there ability to play a whitelisted species.

Having said that, I have seen several of these character in-game and I have no negative memories of them at all. I don't think I've seen your Diona, but I have played under your AI multiple times and have worked with a few of those characters. You roleplay, keep things IC, and generally handle thing server-side pretty well, OOC conduct not withstanding.

I endorse this app on the grounds that you know and follow the server-side rules and you RP well, I wish I'd of seen more of diona though.

Thanks for the good words.

I have been playing both Diona more recently, perhaps you will see more of them.

[NebulaFlare]

I haven't really interacted with you ICly, so I can't give a constructive answer.

Sorry. >.o

[Contextual]

we blew up the ERT when they arrived

 

That, uh. Doesn't reflect too well on you as a player.

[spacevoidagent]

we blew up the ERT when they arrived

 

That, uh. Doesn't reflect too well on you as a player.

Well, technically I didn't do it. I watched.

[jackfractal]

This is not a command white-list, this is an alien white-list. The only criteria is 'can you portray this alien species correctly'. Thus far, nobody has any complaints about how effectively spacevoidagent plays aliens.

Unless someone has evidence that's he's ignoring alien lore somehow, all he needs to do to complete this application is make the changes to the characters backstory we talked about (smaller number of robots, shorter time-frame), and tell me the code words from the lore page.

[spacevoidagent]

This is not a command white-list, this is an alien white-list. The only criteria is 'can you portray this alien species correctly'. Thus far, nobody has any complaints about how effectively spacevoidagent plays aliens.

Unless someone has evidence that's he's ignoring alien lore somehow, all he needs to do to complete this application is make the changes to the characters backstory we talked about (smaller number of robots, shorter time-frame), and tell me the code words from the lore page.

Fixed it! I added 'Edit' notes at the bottom to see what I changed exactly.

The Code Word: 'metallic persimmons'

[jackfractal]

Application approved.