Post by grackis on Feb 26, 2013 10:17:15 GMT -5
I've toyed with the idea and I'm quite fond of it.
I'm not one who puts a ton of thought into his characters generally. I do this because I've rather not lock myself into any one set of goals and just play things as they come. I do not however enjoy mindless blathering or "socializing" when it comes to threads. This is not a hate topic for those types of threads though.
I built Grack to be as driven of a man as possible. He's intelligent but a man of very few words. And while I didn't exactly go into great detail in his profile, which is another habit of mine is to make histories and back stories incredibly vague so I can adapt to the changing story, Grack determined within his own mind that some would not be of the mindset, dedication, or outright will to be fighting the hard fights day in and out. So that's what he's set himself up to do.
Now from what I've heard the new system will pretty much neuter players like me who love questing excessively and leaving story to the wayside. Mods can feel free to confirm or deny this. Anyways it left me with a problem. How would I or anyone for that matter who loves questing and isn't so big on telling a tale of emotional attachments and friendship going to continue to make it in this game?
So I thought about it. While I'm not big on story writing for Grack I can however have someone else do it for me. By that I mean I can have someone else come up with a story and there by take that story and do the dirty work of finding whatever it is they want me to kill and kill it. Now for fluff reasons ICly their would be a token fee for doing the work but OCly no COL would be exchanged.
So I guess that would make me a mercenary. And while I know I'll do it the questions comes to mind of "would anyone else do it?" and "would anyone actually ever use me for my services?" I can't answer these questions. So I leave them to you LS. Would any of you ICly hire a merc?
I'm not one who puts a ton of thought into his characters generally. I do this because I've rather not lock myself into any one set of goals and just play things as they come. I do not however enjoy mindless blathering or "socializing" when it comes to threads. This is not a hate topic for those types of threads though.
I built Grack to be as driven of a man as possible. He's intelligent but a man of very few words. And while I didn't exactly go into great detail in his profile, which is another habit of mine is to make histories and back stories incredibly vague so I can adapt to the changing story, Grack determined within his own mind that some would not be of the mindset, dedication, or outright will to be fighting the hard fights day in and out. So that's what he's set himself up to do.
Now from what I've heard the new system will pretty much neuter players like me who love questing excessively and leaving story to the wayside. Mods can feel free to confirm or deny this. Anyways it left me with a problem. How would I or anyone for that matter who loves questing and isn't so big on telling a tale of emotional attachments and friendship going to continue to make it in this game?
So I thought about it. While I'm not big on story writing for Grack I can however have someone else do it for me. By that I mean I can have someone else come up with a story and there by take that story and do the dirty work of finding whatever it is they want me to kill and kill it. Now for fluff reasons ICly their would be a token fee for doing the work but OCly no COL would be exchanged.
So I guess that would make me a mercenary. And while I know I'll do it the questions comes to mind of "would anyone else do it?" and "would anyone actually ever use me for my services?" I can't answer these questions. So I leave them to you LS. Would any of you ICly hire a merc?