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Re: DUPLICITY

[(Anonymous)]

Thinking about checking this game out and had some questions.

1. How active is it?
2. Anything you wish you had known/done differently as a new player?
3. Are there pros/cons vs. Peacock? Assuming you've played or are familiar with both.
4. What's your favorite aspect of the game? Anything, like a mechanic or lore bit or the player-base.

[(Anonymous)]

1. Medium-ish, I'd say? People love to backtag. Don't expect boomerangs, most here have jobs.
2. Picked a more morally grey character. Goodie two-shoes can struggle here because of the game's themes.
3. Less anime, more live action. Less people who want to RP with younger muses. Thirty plus is a common preference here. It's a pro for me but was a con for my friends in Peacock.
4. Canon variety. Even though it's more on the live action side it's not just a MCU fest.

[(Anonymous)]

the mcu cast isn't even that active. hilariously, the comics guys are around more.

there's a fairly decent amount of cross-canon/medium cr too. most people don't get weird about it.

[(Anonymous)]

1. Slow to fast, depends on your CR. Feels like it's slowed down recently but then it's such an old game that it kind of just fluctuates depending on the event/how much time people put into it.
2. Don't play a Dom if you don't want to manage business stuff. Even if you don't want a business, if your character's sub wants to run a business you'll still need to keep track of it. This isn't actually that hard, but it adds up if that's not your thing. (Don't expect to get things quickly either, you have to wait to unlock stuff.)
3. Peacock's characters seem to lean more anime/teen, where Dup is more LA/older characters. I'm not in Peacock though so that's just the sense I get from other people.
4. The Dom/sub stuff when it's done well is great, but that's also the main draw for me. Being able to get custom citations from the mods is really cool.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

custom citations and custom consequences for fucking with the city/authorities/gangs are one of the best aspects of the game, ia.

re: 3/4, I'll add that if you're after an overarching plot, there isn't much in dup - there's some vague lore in terms of setting that can kind of be played around with, but outside of events, there's not much going on and it'll be on you to find ways for your character to engage with the city/setting. in that respect, it's a game that's very dependent on the cr you end up with in terms of how much you're going to get out of it (ie. how much the darker aspects of the game are leant into, the d/s dynamics, anything and everything to do with the down etc).

it can sometimes feel like there are two different playerbases who've somehow ended up in the same game as not everyone does want to engage with the darker aspects and prefers to hold party logs, but that can either be positive or a negative depending on what you're after, i guess.

there was recently an ooc survey where a lot of feedback seemed to be around the lack of plot and while the game's not going to suddenly have that in abundance, the mods do seem to be making an effort to include more lore and environmental aspects to engage with.

[(Anonymous)]

actually, to add -- you can change character designations once totally, but i'd definitely recommend having a think about the kind of arc you'd want to take with your character. apping a dom allows for a lot more avenues and freedoms, but there are benefits to playing a sub in terms of the challenges they face in the setting if that's something that interests you.

Re: DUPLICITY

[(Anonymous)]

Side question from another anon looking: is it impossible or just harder to get traction as an anime/vg player?

Re: DUPLICITY

[(Anonymous)]

It's very possible. A lot of them play with other anime/vg characters and casts, but a decent chunk also play with other mediums (and vice versa - I see LA canons seeking out threads with the anime/vg canons)

Re: DUPLICITY

[(Anonymous)]

i play a vg character and having no issues. very much a looks and personality thing

Re: DUPLICITY

[(Anonymous)]

Are there any sort of personalities you feel do well here (or bad)? A nonny above mentioned struggling as a goody two shoes character, for example.

Re: DUPLICITY

[(Anonymous)]

As characters will never be able to successfully rebel against the city, those proactive sorts who need to gain purchase to feel satisfied can be frustrating. There is no mechanic for getting one over on the authorities. You will always fail and always be punished for it.

Which is not something I'm mentioning as a flaw in the game. It's just part of why Big Protagonist Energy determinators might struggle.