For weaponry and armor (if you feel like mentioning it), most people really have been basing their equipment off games like Starcraft, Dead Space, or even Star Wars. Plasma, I would say, is standard but if you want to get fancy there's always electromagnetism, flame throwers, or even a weapon similar to the one Gordon Freeman uses in Half-Life 2 that is pretty much like a telekinetic weapon (grabs things and throws them telekinetically).
If you want to base your suit off Isaac Clark's suit in Dead Space, which in DS it was called a rig, you can. In another 1x1 game I play, the standard armor is a rig.
If you want me to add a standard armor to this game, then I can do so when the IC is up. I can list it under Gadgets even though technically its not a gadget, it's still an invention that everyone can use when they leave the ship on expeditions.
Edit (1): (Speaking in general to everyone and not to anyone specific) Also, as far as profiles go, I'm not going to tell you what's wrong with them, what's missing, or what should be fixed. The profile you make for your character is a reflection of yourself as a writer. How you make it, how you write it, and how you design it reflects you. Unless you barely wrote anything that would be the only time I would reject a profile. If you fill out each mandatory category to the best of your ability, then I will approve it. So please don't apologize to me because you did this or did that and lah-dee-dah. It's your profile. If you aren't happy with it, then simply fix it.
Edit(2): I want to also mention that Sunday when the IC goes up, I will be closing this game to anymore recruits. The reason is big games aren't always manageable. There will always be someone going AWOL or what not and just plain and simple, small groups are just easier to manage. Less hold ups. I will try to make sure we have an equal number of males and females in this game. If the odds have tilted, then I'll allow more people for that gender to even the scales.
Edit(3): I've seen this happen in games before and I really, really, really want to avoid it. There are times where you join a group game and there will be sex scenes that end up stalling the game because they take too long to finish and the GM doesn't want to move time along without risking interrupting the two characters involved. If your character enters an erotic scene with another character, then just before they start taking it all off, make a separate thread but post up a link in the IC to that thread in the case anyone wants to read it. It sounds boring, it sounds not so entertaining, but the reason is for those characters not engaged in sex scenes, I want them to be able to move around freely without in-game time being an issue. I don't want in-game time to have any interference on your sex scene either.
If your sex scene is not plot-related, then yeah, make a separate thread. If it is plot-related meaning that say it gets interrupted by an alien menace, anyone can interrupt it/eavesdrop on it, or something like that, then you can leave it in the IC. If you happen to have a threesome, then those characters can also join you in that separate thread you made.
But yes, the biggest problem is when everyone has moved on and is waiting for their characters to go to bed but John and Jane are still engrossed in a sex scene that started at 12:00PM Lunch Time in-game and still hasn't ended and it's midnight (once again, in-game).
But is everyone okay with that? It's the only way I could think to avoid any stalling for those who want to move on. Also, if your character is in another thread having sex, you can resume to play him/her in the IC thread as though that sex scene happened on a different day and time so you can still enjoy involvement in the story.
I just really want to avoid hang ups.
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