SS Embrace

Decided to write a little MechScape fiction. If you haven’t heard about MechScape/Stellar Dawn, Check out this fan site.

 

Creatures rushed about, Alarms rung with extreme intensity, Sirens wailed. A missile hit the side of the ship, it shook violently, the blast ricocheted  throughout the whole ship. A fire was now building up and starting to spread around the doomed space craft. A tank of gas blew up, the whole ship was now shuddering violently. Groans and creeks were coming from all around the little Pliigi. The fire was now rapidly nearing the creature. The ship was in total chaos. Pliigi were fighting their way towards escape pods, not wanting to perish with the ship. Pliigi 5782 was among them. Although they had not been told to abandon the ship, It was clear now SS Embrace would be falling into the depths of space in a matter of minutes.

The captain stood valiantly at the controls of his ship on the flight deck. Warnings flashed around the screens creating a dazzling display. An alarm started howling. A cold, metallic voice uttered words that would scare any soul: “Oncoming missile, On track 3271.” The captain had faith in his ship, It was one of the best sailing the billions of galaxies. He reluctantly fired his last missile aiming for the Ion Engines at the base of the enemy craft. He watched the screen as the missile travelled the few short seconds towards the attacking ship. It was closing in. The Captain watched the missile read-out. It was at 0 seconds. He was now amazed by the bizarre reading telling him the projectile was turning around and heading back. True it was. He looked through the glass and there it was hurtling towards SS Embrace. His only hope was to fire one of the escape pods to stop the missile hitting the ship. Without thinking, He tapped in the commands and the pod was fired off. The captain tried to not think about whether anybody was in it. He sat back and looked out into space and realised just how beautiful it was. The stars dazzled him. The planets floated magically in infinite majesty. He was proud to have seen such beautiful things.  Another alarm suddenly came to life. It warned that the last engine providing all energy to the ship was now on it’s last legs. The captain knew this was it. He had about 5 minutes before the gravity stabilisers would fail and they’d fall into the looming black hole. He knew this was it. Bravely he gave an announcement warning that everybody should evacuate the ship with in the next two minutes. His mind was working. Calculating the time and distance. He was within range. Un-needed systems were shut down to conserve power. This would be one of the last images he saw. The beauty of space.

The last remaining Ion engine sprang to life. They were on melt down. The captain slowly punched in the course. He was doing his duty, Defending his ship and the Nations of Sector 5. SS Embrace accelerated, nearing the enemy ship. The core of the engine was on melt down. A proximity alert howled, they were within impact distance. The captain shut his eyes, as the craft slammed into the enemy ship.

Sector 5 was lit up by the crash. Sparks flew out. An amazing light flooded the galaxy. You could have only imagined the sound of the crash. Slowly, the particles of the two ships were dragged away into the black hole. It sucked them up like a hover. The name plate of the SS Embrace escaped the black hole. It drifted slowly away into the depths of space…

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What could MechScape’s community be like?

Hey everybody! Decided to try my hand at a little speculative MechScape writing. It’s my first one, So please go easy on me! All constructive criticism welcome!

 

You arrive in Lumbridge, Just created your character. You start to think, Wow, This seems a good, free online game! You manage to find yourself to the goblins by the toll gates. Bash! You hit a few goblins and kill one. Pick up these shiny little gold coins. A player comes up to you, Gives you some free gold to get started. He shows you around and you meet some other cool people. Suddenly you start to think, Wow what a great community! If only this was true. Lets rewind and meet the real Runescape players. The ten year olds that make Runescape’s community, Well um Unique to say the least.

You arrive in Lumbridge. You’ll instantly see bots, trolls or people attacking each other. Now if you can’t stand this, You would have given up by now. But no, You decide to venture on thinking it’s just a bad server or bad time e.t.c Over you head to the goblins, By now a few people have asked you to drop your items and hit alt + f4 as it’s an “Item Duplicator.” Obviously the newbs will fall for this, But the experienced ones may carry on. By now your level 5 and decide to invest in some armour. You see a guy with some shiny steel and PM him to ask if you can buy his armour. A typical conversation will go like this:

Me: Hey,

Them: ????

Me: Mind if I buy your armour?

Them: h0w mch $?

Me: I’ll give you 5k (Lets imagine it’s worth 500GP)

Them: F*** u, i pai $50000000 for it, f ur mum, i repotd u.

So by this time you decide enough is enough, You log out and never log back in.

So why is the community like this? Well through out my time playing I’ve noticed a few groups of people or reasons for this poor community.

1. The underage users who can’t handle being wrong or just have poor language and behaviour skills.
2. High levels who are probably also underage that think their opinion is better and they know everything.
3. The P2P people that expect a perfect game with no bugs. These people generally moan about everything.
4. Spammers. This only really applies on the forums.
5. The idiots

I’m sure there are loads more types of people, But this is all I’ll include for now.

So now to see their impact on the community. Well the underage users are just kids that are like 10 years old that can’t handle loosing. They will typically type things like:

Plx $ for me, i p0r

The kids also will get annoyed with people who are attacking the same monsters e.t.c Often resulting in cursing and nasty behaviour. So why aren’t these people banned? Well Jagex seem pretty lenient when perhaps they should start perm banning people quicker. Perhaps this would be a heavy handed way of fixing the community, but it would definitely help. The problems with these people on the forums are the same. With the poor typing, low quality of posts and begging..

Now I’ll start by saying the majority of high levels are fun players that will try and help low levels. Obviously with all communities, You have the ones that spoil the lot. Some high levels will go around boasting and just showing off. In the forums though, This is more of a problem.You will have high level F2P users saying their opinion matters more and you should listen to them e.t.c These people aren’t a huge problem, they are just arrogant and annoying.

Now for the spoilt P2P users. Once again, I’m sure the most part of the members are good, honest users that work WITH Jagex not against them. However you get the odd few who will complain about every single update. Yet they never seem to have  a better idea. They will moan, whine and may call Runescape a waste of £3 a month when the amount of content for that little a price is second to none. However these moaning members rarley visit free to play worlds, So some of us are safe!

The spammers. Don’t we despise them all. The people that flood the in game chat with rubbish or just post absolute crap on the forums for the sake of a post count meter. For me, These are the biggest causers of havoc on the forums, Which is why RSOF are often regarded as one of the worst forums out there.

For my last point I’ll deal with the idiots. They provide us with some laughs on the forums, I’ll give you that. But in game, they will walk around, Beg and ask where do I get money e.t.c

So now I’ve had a look at the people that give the Runescaping community a bad image. It’s all well and good highlighting the problems, But how does Jagex go about solving them? This is a particularly important aspect with MechScape. If, Like Runescape, it has poor community members, It will never achieve it’s full potential.

Obviously there is the easy option of banning all these people. This could take a lot of Jagex staff having to review lots of cases. Meaning more staff are needed.

 

I have decided to scrap this article as it seems there are enough rants about the community e.t.c

Don’t worry, I will be trying again!

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The Back Streets Of London

As I stated in my last post, more stories are coming! The text I bring to you is not really a story, But more of a descriptive passage building tension and hopefully creating an image in you mind of the scenery e.t.c

I’ve got a bit of spare time now and I find myself quickly typing out a story. Generally I try and right my stories within one night rather than over a few days. This is why they are quite short. Perhaps I may create some longer texts, who knows... Anyway, Here is the latest passage. I’ve been working on, It’s called The Back Streets Of London. It’s a descriptive text for my English class which really doesn’t make any sense!

It was night. There was no moon to illuminate the streets of London. Jack quickly hurried through the back alleys around Whitechapel. There was suddenly a loud clang of metal on the ground and the sound of a cat screeching as it darted over a fence. Jack froze, His heart banged away at his chest like a drum. His eyes slowly glanced around surveying the alley. He was starting to regret the choice to stray away from the busier streets. Jack started to walk again, His feet making little noise as he strolled behind the backs of peoples houses. A light was switched on, Jack tensed and felt chills running down his spine, But carried on. He now came to a small junction. A quick look to the left made him notice a little pub. Jack heard shouting which cut through the silence of the cold November night. One of them saw him staring and yelled him, “Oi, What you lookin’ at mate?” One of them threw something at him. The glass sailed through the air, A gust of wind lifted it and it missed Jack by a few centimetres. He didn’t have to be asked twice to get moving again. A few minutes later a carriage pulled up next to him. “Get in here lad” shouted a man in black. The horses shuddered in the cold and reluctantly started moving. “I think you can guess where we are going..”

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Sanctioned Alliance

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Just started a new clan for MechScape. You can view the site here.

Please feel free to post an application to join our wonderful community of clan members.

That's all I have right now, Will be uploading some more stories soon.