Just like as a reminder the only angelic characters belong to myself and Elia, personally I don't get on that much and I rarely do anything along the lines of angelic activities. They aren't really a thing at all to be honest, demons are for sure, but angels are almost non existent. Which is a good thing in my eyes because seriously, I get Zombie and Elia want angels to be a big thing or whatever, or to be like a race as regular or nearso to demons. I mean any regular human can still kill demons, they can use magic, bullets or faith - nephilim are better at it, but not so much that they need to be the only thing that can stop a demon.
I support the idea that full demons and demon lords should be really hard to kill, because the fact is whenever a demon shows up and I have SEEN THIS AS I HAVE A DEMON LORD. You get like eight players or the whole fucking server trying to kill this one demon, most of them are magical, most of them have guns. Demons need to be strong enough to deal with the giant horde of white knights, otherwise there is no challenge at all for the players. I mean you've all played against antagonists, like - when was the last time you saw multiple people die? I don't think I've ever seen that, I've seen singular people die once in like an eternity.
Demons respectively if they ever get into combat, which is what they are really purposed for, need to be able to handle what comes at them. Because if you treat the situation like a demon is just going to be fighting one Nephilim, by themselves, then it's wrong. Because I don't think I've ever seen combat RP, between anyone, where it's only TWO people - ever. It's always one big group against one small group, or in the case of a demon the server versus this one antagonist player.
I want them to be strong, because that's fair and it creates challenge. People should feel like they need to be challenged, to plan, to group and to do more then just /me shoots gun /me magic woooooooo. They are the bosses you fight, those guys you grind for hours to prepare for in all those MMROPG's, that require you to really work hard to take down.
Old One Eye is a good example of someone who is hard to kill, someone who even in the face of multiple people can still fuck them up even if they use magic or bullets.
But this is also about antagonists in general, there's a large swarm of white knights on the server that exist and they all like to group together to take down the big boss. Well I mean, don't you guys get sick of winning all the time? Getting out with mediocre or minor injuries that heal in like a day or two? What about death? Fear? The fact that you are really risking your life and flipping a coin by putting yourself into a really dangerous situation. That big group headed towards the house with the demon, could possibly die there, that's something.
I mean personally if I was an owner I'd make some events have mandatory death, as in, someone almost absolutely has to die unless there's good reason behind them not dying. Maybe even have events where multiple people die, to give people this idea that they aren't indestructible and that playing the hero is now just a word for dying early in life.
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I WILL ALSO TAKE THE TIME TO ADDRESS SOMETHING.
Skills = Something you develop over time and have perfected through persistence. Real skill, comes from pressing hours upon hours towards something and doing said thing, the right as opposed to the easy way.
Talent = Something you are born with, which can never really match up to skill because it is undeveloped.
Everyone thinks the race they are, how they were born, who their dogs sister was - is really important. I am so sick of that mentality, in both life and in server, people thinking your natural born talents are what define everything. Your talents don't mean fucking crap, how you develop them into skills, that matters. What you do with your time and how you act purposely with your life to work hard on whatever it is that you have a passion for, is what makes you better then other people.
In the same sense that just because you are a type of race, does not mean that you automatically better then other races. You could be a Nosferatu Sanguine and you might be fighting an Adept Augustine, but that Adept Augustine might condition their body to a ridiculous extent more then you so that they could kick your ass across the hallway like a little bunny rabbit. There are people right now who are six times stronger then us, people who can smash their fists through bricks like it's nothing and they aren't genetically special, they just trained to do it. They developed a skill and advanced on it, people need to focus on the characters developed skills, instead of their natural born talents.
I always supported skills and I dealt with people who didn't give a fuck. In combat their first questions was what rank the character was, or their race. If I brought up their training, they didn't give a fuck, it was like it didn't matter. It didn't matter what the character did their entire life, what kind of dedication they would of gone through, all that matters to people is who they were born as, not who they became.
I'll also give you another example, right now there is a 90 year old chinese man walking around Hong Kong. He is frail, he looks weak and his extremely skinny and short. He exercises his tendons so that they he doesn't have to rely on his muscles to do sudden movements, in his earlier years he did not exercise his tendons and instead bashed his arms/hands against metallic rods for .5 - 1.5 hours a day, depending on how good he felt.
He could kill you and every single one of your friends, in a small confined room, without even trying and only have to hit each person once in the chest to kill them(It'd take him maybe 5-8 seconds to do it, depending on how many friends you have. That's not an exaggeration either.). That isn't because he's the hulks son, it's because he dedicated his life to a martial art. He's deadly because he went through immense amounts of pain to do something that most people could not stomach when he was younger, to persist even to a point where at the end of the day his muscles were so fatigued that he couldn't raise his arms.