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So here's a basic idea. Characters are placed in modern day Earth, absolutely no different to ours up until the moment all these other worldly people start turning up and messing stuff up.

No jamjar, no power limitation and game plots would only be in response to what characters do. The world info will change to reflect everything that occurs and players are encouraged to seriously alter the gamescape. To help things along in this manner, I'd personally play a villain who'd not change his goal to conquer the world, but it wouldn't be treated as a mod enforced plot and sure as hell wouldn't be rail roaded with a foregone conclusion.

I feel like the main problem with this is that because the world is so freaking huge, it's very easy to get isolated from other player characters. Too many characters would much rather blend in with normal society than hang out with the other off-world types. Furthermore, characters from alternate Earth type worlds might end up wanting to move to the countries they are familiar with (and characters from other places might want to move due to climate or personal preference or whatever the fuck) and all of a sudden you end up with everyone literally scattered around the world, which makes new CR super hard.

Probably you could work out some way to fix this issue, though, and the idea does sound pretty damn appealing in other ways.

if OP didn't want some arbitrary 'the government restricts you to one city/country' method of dealing with that, there's always the logic of convenience to take into account. these people cropping out of nowhere will have no money, no legal identities, may not look human - they might well be stuck in one location because they can't afford either illegally-made identity papers or to bring themselves to the attention of the authorities who might be inclined to recruit them or experiment on them.

apart from that, a network would be easiest to keep in contact with if they DID get to go to different countries. it would just remove the possibility of face-to-face posts for those characters.

Honestly I think that might be okay. As DA has pointed out getting around is going to be a problem for IC reasons for one thing. Hopefully the idea would be that the plotting of the players would bring people together, such as if a giant robot war machine sets France on fire people are going to want to get involved. Or flee! Whatever.

I was thinking of having a network type thing that only works for the other worldly types, but that's it. Perhaps something they use unwillingly, like they can't fully escape it even if they go live on a mountain.

CnC is an alternate Earth and the characters don't have to stay in the City - sometimes characters leave for a while and come back, sometimes they live other places - most of the players keep the characters in the City because it's just easier oocly and icly

you might give them a reason to have a certain "home base" but give them the opportunity to explore

no power limitation

And then someone apps Son Goku.

So what? Someone can app one of the billions of characters more powerful.

oh no you didn't

Okay. So those characters fight with blasts, each of which can nuke earth.

All characters that, you know, don't have ridiculous OP abilities die without a chance. And even a point. The game is now about the OP characters nuking or not nuking the world.

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