FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONSOUT OF CHARACTERWhat Is Space Race?What kind of characters can I play in Space Race?How many characters can I play in Space Race?When do applications open? When do events go up?GAME MECHANICSHow do we get around finding this treasure?Why would my character want to find the treasure?How did my character become a Privateer?What about housing/money/resources?Can we revisit previous locations and planets?What happens to a character's powers in the game?Can my character bring [X] from their canon?What happens when a character is dropped/a player leaves the game?What happens when I change a character's canon point by canon updating them?What happens when a character dies?Is there a network?ACTIVITY CHECKWhat is the monthly activity check?Can I take a hiatus? How about a strike?CREWS AND SHIPSHow do I get a ship and a crew?What determines what crew I'm on, or my title within a crew?Can my ship be shaped like a [X]?What weapons/rooms/etc. can my ship have?If everyone has their own ship, aren't these fleets and not crews?OUT OF CHARACTERWhat Is Space Race?Space Race is a panfandom roleplay game about Space Privateers hired from across the multiverse to search for the ultimate treasure: Fortuna, the Lucky Star. Inspirations include Borderlands, One Piece, Lancer, FTL, and Metroid.
Along the way characters will be able to pilot space ships, found their own crews, join other crews, commit mutiny, get marooned on an asteroid, and much more. In Space.
What kind of characters can I play in Space Race?- Canon Characters from a published series
- Original Characters from a setting of the player's creation
Duplicates of characters are not allowed. If a character is on the Taken List, they cannot be apped for.
Customizable characters that experience a canon plot (such as Bioware protagonists) count as canon characters, but not distinct characters, and cannot be apped if one already exists in the game.
How many characters can I play in Space Race?Currently the limit is
3 characters per player. There are no plans for an overarching Game or Cast cap so far. These numbers may change as the game grows.
When do applications and reserves open? When do events go up?Applications and reserves will open on a bimonthly basis.
The current, rough schedule of the game is as follows:
Month 1 Day 1 Applications are closed and accepted.
Month 1 Day 6 Crew Recruitment meme goes up. Major Event OOC Plotting Post is posted.
Month 1 Day 7 Major Event is posted.
Month 2 Day 6 Minor Event OOC Plotting Post is posted.
Month 2 Day 7 Minor Event is posted.
Month 2 Day 15 Test Drive Meme is posted. Reserves open.
Month 2 Day 23 Applications open.
GAME MECHANICSHow do we get around finding this treasure?The structure for the search for the treasure will be mostly linear. Each major event will introduce a new planet which is known to contain some clue for the treasure, which will lead to the next planet, repeating indefinitely until the treasure is found or the game explodes.
Why would my character want to find the treasure?While the precise nature and description of Fortuna is never consistent, ranging from a weapon to a natural phenomena or even a person, it is universally agreed that it is capable of granting anything one could ever desire. Winning a war, bringing a deceased loved one back to life, gaining peerless power and talent, all are possible reasons for a character to want the treasure. Or it could be scientific motivation, or even simple curiosity, that drives one's character to seek the Lucky Star.
If one truly cannot argue for any reason whatsoever for one's character to want to join the search for the Ultimate Treasure, we can only offer the advice of picking a different character to apply.
How did my character become a Privateer?At some point, your character came into contact with the A.I. SUPERBIA and
agreed to become one of its Privateers. The circumstances of this meeting are up for the player to decide. If your character comes from an advanced space-faring setting, it could have been as simple as responding to an ad from a periodical. On the other hand, in a more primitive society the meeting could have been more fateful such as encountering a meteorite that turned out to be a satellite. The only mandatory detail is that
recruitment by SUPERBIA must have been completely voluntary.
What about housing/money/resources?SUPERBIA, the A.I. created with the sole purpose of finding the Ultimate Treasure and the entity responsible for bringing the characters together, is a completely self-sufficient mega-structure the size of a small moon that provides its Privateers with infinite resources through ships, money, and even manpower (or robotpower). Material needs can be handwaved as being given by SUPERBIA.
Can we revisit previous locations and planets?When a planet is discovered, a fast travel point is constructed, allowing anyone to visit it from any other previously visited location. However,
the general assumption is that all clues and plot leads will be on current planet. The game will be, for the most part, a straight line to the end instead of a true sandbox.
What happens to a character's powers in the game?Generally,
powers are not nerfed. If a mod decides that a power is too disruptive for the game in the application stage, they are able to request that the power be modified.
Can my character bring [X] from their canon?Because of the scale of the game and lack of power nerfing, items of practically any size can be brought over. The issue of transportation will have to be answered on your own, however.
"Pets" such as Pokemon, companion A.I.s, summons, etc. are allowed. If a pet is determined by the mods to be a playable character in their own right they may reject the request, however.
What happens when a character is dropped/a player leaves the game?The character makes off like Poochie and returns to their homeplanet, forsaking the life of a Privateer (at least, for now).
What happens when I change a character's canon point by canon updating them?Characters from the same canon arriving from disparate canon points will be chalked up to irregularities caused by anti-time dilation technology. Canon updates are returns to the character's homeplanet, explained by the same time peculiarities.
What happens when a character dies?Dying in the Great Space Race is just as real as anywhere else.
There are no respawns and death is permanent. If a player would like to plan a character's death and work it into the plot, please contact the mods.
Mechanically, the moment of a character's death, they are effectively immediately dropped from Space Race. From then on this character can be reapped by the same player or by different players with no memories as a Privateer. Mod trusts the players to not abuse this system for "extra lives". These "revivals" are likely the result of SUPERBIA pulling from extremely similar universes across the multiverse, but characters are free to speculate in-universe.
Is there a network?The network, uncreatively titled The Network, is available to all characters through easily obtainable communication devices. It is equivalent to the modern internet, with videos, memes, dating apps, and all.
Like the internet, various private channels can be created, with different levels of security based on their nature.
ACTIVITY CHECKWhat is the monthly activity check?The activity check is a minimum of 10 comments. Up to 2 threads can be used to reach activity. Threads used for activity must have been started in the month of the activity check.
Can I take a hiatus? How about a strike?A one month hiatus can be requested at any time through the Hiatus/Drop page. If a player wishes for a longer hiatus, please contact the mods to arrange details.
Players are allowed to take one strike. The strike must be made up in the immediate following app round, or the character will be removed from the game for inactivity. Strikes cannot be taken more often than every six months, to prevent them from being abused in conjunction with hiatuses.
CREWS AND SHIPSHow do I get a ship and a crew?Ships do not need plotting or approval to be obtained.
Every character has a minimum of one space ship by default, provided by SUPERBIA. Characters can also handwave having crews of nameless NPCs, whether they be robots or recruited mercenaries. Player crewmates require asking the players involved, of course.
What determines what crew I'm on, or my title within a crew?Crews and their internal hierarchy (or lack of) will be left for the players to decide amongst each other. There will be a crew recruitment meme posted every other month for players to plot.
Can my ship be shaped like a [X]?All cosmetic features are allowed for space ships.
What weapons/rooms/etc. can my ship have?See the
Build-A-Ship page for common features of space ships.
If everyone has their own ship, aren't these fleets and not crews?Correct, but crew/crewmate sounds more pirate-y than fleet/fleetmate, so crew it is.
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Armor, speed, and size can be abstractly represented as a triangle with the classic "want three pick two" arrangement. A ship can have a compromise of two stats at the cost of one, or be all in one stat at the cost of the other two. So you can have a respectably large and armored ship that isn't fast, or an extremely fast ship that is tiny and made of paper.
Sophisticated sensors and computers allow for on the fly analysis of any strange samples brought onboard, intentionally or otherwise.
