Thank you for your interest in Space Race! Many of these questions made us mull on things, and info pages will be updated to reflect on our conclusions.
1. If Space Race runs longer than One Piece, God save us all.
2. This information was disclosed on plurk but not the community pages, oops. The game opening is currently planned for November 1. The tentative dates for reserves/Test Drive Meme #1 is October 8, with applications opening October 22.
3. Different versions of the "same" character (such as different adaptations or different universes) do count as doubles, yes, and count as a taken character slot.
4. A character that dies due to the events of Space Race is effectively dropped, but 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. These "revivals" are likely the result of SUPERBIA pulling from extremely similar universes across the multiverse, but characters are free to speculate.
Powers relating to death, souls, and necromancy are not necessarily auto-nerfed, but since they are likely in the category of powers that affect other player characters, please be conscientious of other players and plot with them before their use.
5. There is a microbe that multiplies very virulently in environments such as space ships and space stations such as SUPERBIA. Hosts of this microbe are granted instantaneous understanding of each other's speech, for relationships that are more conductive to the microbe's reproduction. If one is uncomfortable with being infected, good luck: they're harder to get rid of than bedbugs. (PS the presence of this microbe explains the popularity of electronic and mechanical ciphers in the intelligence fields of space-faring society).
6. Characters that are often portrayed in canon as their digital avatars are allowed to be played as either their "real world" versions or their digital selves. What this implies about the nature of their reality is left up for the characters to ponder. Which version will be played must be decided at the application stage, and cannot be changed.
7. "Dead" characters like Shades from Hades or Shinigami from Bleach count as immortal characters as described in this answer, where they are technically not nerfed but are still susceptible to death in Space Race nonetheless. Characters cannot be apped at the moment of their deaths, that is correct (it would be rather difficult to agree to a distant space voyage under such circumstances, regardless). Or in other words, it is impossible to bring a character from a canon point that does not exist for them, because then they would have never encountered SUPERBIA.
8. The AC rules will be updated to reflect this but players will be allowed 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.
9. Mod has considered an inventory section, but since it is close to the first application round, changes to the application will be postponed until afterwards in order to minimize confusion, in case prospective players have saved the previous version.
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1. If Space Race runs longer than One Piece, God save us all.
2. This information was disclosed on plurk but not the community pages, oops. The game opening is currently planned for November 1. The tentative dates for reserves/Test Drive Meme #1 is October 8, with applications opening October 22.
3. Different versions of the "same" character (such as different adaptations or different universes) do count as doubles, yes, and count as a taken character slot.
4. A character that dies due to the events of Space Race is effectively dropped, but 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. These "revivals" are likely the result of SUPERBIA pulling from extremely similar universes across the multiverse, but characters are free to speculate.
Powers relating to death, souls, and necromancy are not necessarily auto-nerfed, but since they are likely in the category of powers that affect other player characters, please be conscientious of other players and plot with them before their use.
5. There is a microbe that multiplies very virulently in environments such as space ships and space stations such as SUPERBIA. Hosts of this microbe are granted instantaneous understanding of each other's speech, for relationships that are more conductive to the microbe's reproduction. If one is uncomfortable with being infected, good luck: they're harder to get rid of than bedbugs. (PS the presence of this microbe explains the popularity of electronic and mechanical ciphers in the intelligence fields of space-faring society).
6. Characters that are often portrayed in canon as their digital avatars are allowed to be played as either their "real world" versions or their digital selves. What this implies about the nature of their reality is left up for the characters to ponder. Which version will be played must be decided at the application stage, and cannot be changed.
7. "Dead" characters like Shades from Hades or Shinigami from Bleach count as immortal characters as described in this answer, where they are technically not nerfed but are still susceptible to death in Space Race nonetheless. Characters cannot be apped at the moment of their deaths, that is correct (it would be rather difficult to agree to a distant space voyage under such circumstances, regardless). Or in other words, it is impossible to bring a character from a canon point that does not exist for them, because then they would have never encountered SUPERBIA.
8. The AC rules will be updated to reflect this but players will be allowed 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.
9. Mod has considered an inventory section, but since it is close to the first application round, changes to the application will be postponed until afterwards in order to minimize confusion, in case prospective players have saved the previous version.