Alright, we talked a bit about this in IRC but this is probably a better place for us to discuss what we'd like to do with this. Basically, the earth has become uninhabitable so a few countries got together and built a sleeper ship that could colonize some other planet. Naturally, everything that can go wrong does and the crew breaks up into various factions just before reaching their target. All the groups take a colony pod down and now it looks like their new home will have the same fate as Earth.

So who would be interested in something like this and what kinds of rules would you guys like?

First off, while I believe the main goal should be to create good RP and enjoyable stories, we have to lay down some ground rules about player to player interaction. Just as in real life, and even more in a setting like this, all the factions are gonna be looking out for Number 1, unless otherwise stated by the player(lolf). So a "national stat" system would be great.

Example: Mingustein

Military: 4
Diplomacy: 2
Economy: 4
Legitimacy(or whatever, representing internal dissent/freedoms for the citizenry): 1

And so on and so forth. There would obviously be a set number of free points to assign to whichever stat you wish aswell as a special cultural perk or something of the like?. Give input pls

Is this really a text rp? It sounds like a game :3

That'd probably be fine. We we could get the use some kind of point-buy for vague areas of expertise like that so people couldn't be awesome at everything and then people could add the advantages and disadvantages of their faction to help everyone get on the same page for RP.

Would we want the mindworms and empaths and stuff that the game has or do you guys want to just do a generic new planet RP?

I don't think we have to be totally realistic, so mindworms and empaths are fine with me.

Anyways, in response to Ash, what RebornSentinal said, because if we didn't people would cry alot as people with superior knowledge on how to steamroll other people politically, militarily would wreck beforementioned players shit and there would be accusations of powerplaying ad infinitum.

The RP is the bottom line.

D20: Alpha Centauri RP System :B

Too much useless shit in D20. The best solution would be something like this:

Mingustein attacks Mat55topia

Mingu-kun~
Military 4 + circumstance bonus = 7 dice
vs
Mat552~
Military 3 + circumstance bonus = 5 dice

dice is rolled, highest score or most successes(4-6 equals a success perhaps?) wins the hostile action. Hope that made sense :B

Dice rolling in some form is good though, nice and neutral.

Base score + appropriate modifiers = final result is what I'm partial to, seeing as in your example, you're rolling 12 dice instead of 2.

(Perhaps I'm just stuck on the simplest form of d20. Hurrrrrr)

ANYBODY ELSE HAVE IDEAS?

We could play RISK style with # of dice determined by strength.

That's what I've been saying Kman.

So....how does this done?

Well, I couldn't find a map of the in-game Planet so I whipped up my own. The only program I have is Paint so I can't really fill in any details. It'll probably be good enough for our purposes and if anyone with some skills wants to pretty it up that'd be fine too. My only worry is that it seems like only a few people are interested in this. Would more people be interested in a more conventional post-apocalyptic setting or do you think more people would come around once it got going?

I'll be willing to give it a shot once it's up, if it's got the rules laid out and stuff.

We should play this shit :V