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(07-11-2015, 03:24 AM)Zedrick Pendragon Wrote: Tancred I appreciate your insight now that it's more clear, but this is still conjecture, and regulated opinion.
You're forcing you're close minded opinion on me and trying to pass it off as the opinion of "many other" when obviously you're opinion on this thread is solitary. I've heard the opinions of Unnamed Merc, basically stating that it's possible but ill advise due to difficulty, and those that full one support my claim. You however have merely stated "don't do it, because I don't like" clearly you are entitled to your opinion, but if you don't like it, stop reading this thread. Clearly you have nothing constructive to add.
Wait. Wait, wait, wait. I mean...opposing statements in the same post aside, how is the fact that the settings are different equate to "close minded opinion"? Dude. Ok. You like FFXI. I do too! I played it for like five years. Bahamut server, represent.
Vana'Diel and Eorzea aren't the same thing, and I'd be super interested to hear why it is you want a character from the former to come to the latter. What's the point? Why do it?
Here's something constructive. I don't know if you'll actually take it as such, but here it is anyway:
Shoehorning goofy things into a plotline just jars your reader. How many longtime Star Wars fans are really stoked about midichlorians? How many Star Trek fans just love Q? If Gandalf showed up in a Jurassic Park movie, would you applaud the character's presence?
How much do you like "slash" fanfiction, in which Harry Potter becomes a vampire and bones the brains out of Hello Kitty? What you're proposing is pretty similar. Not in content, but in execution. This bandying about if "oh, but it's difficult!" is a soft-sell on "don't do it, it's stupid."
I think you can handle being told "don't do it, it's stupid." I think you're grown up enough to not need me, or Tancred, or anyone else coddle you on the matter of makebelieve.
(07-11-2015, 03:29 AM)Zedrick Pendragon Wrote: I guess my next question is, if I do choose to proceed with this obviously difficult RPing storyline does anyone know any Supportive fun roleplaying FC that would allow this sort of thing?
Here's another interesting thing. You know...let's say if I calculated the trajectory of a projectile wrong? I wouldn't go and find a support group that'd pat my back, and say "Don't worry about them! You didn't do anything wrong! It was the fault of physics for not obeying you! You're a shining star, and could not possibly have to re-evaluate what it was you were doing!"
I wouldn't do this, because then I would never learn anything. At all. Ever. Do you see the parallel?
(07-11-2015, 03:43 AM)Graeham Wrote: My concern with threads such as this one is that people make them asking for feedback - usually knowing all too well that what they're doing is controversial - and then they seem more than willing to go ahead with it anyway even if they do receive a lot of criticism (constructive or otherwise) towards the idea in question.
That's because there is no real search for feedback beyond "It's great, you're great, let's all just tell eachother we're great." The forum has no idea what constructive criticism actually is, because it's mandated we all pretend to love eachother like precious little harmonious angels we are, and in that mandate is a firm belief that all ideas are good.
Even though no, they aren't.
This one, guy? This one is a bad idea. Keep your writing and your characters simple.