Code: Select all
Syntax: Role Purchase [ID] [Primary|Secondary]
Role List <all>|<active>|<inactive>|<free>
Role Search <keyword>
Role Requires <requirement type> <value>
Role Watch [ID]
Role Request [ID] <message>
Roles describe what it is that your character does in game. They are flexible,
and your character can hold two purchased roles at any given time.
Roles are purchased in-game and kept until:
1) A player goes inactive, the role becomes available, AND another player purchases it off the inactive player.
2) A player loses the pre-reqs to retain the role.
Role Purchase # Primary will pay out the requisite XP and make the selected role your primary role provided that it is available, and that your character meets the requirements. Role Purchase # Secondary will do the same, but make the role a hidden, secondary role that only appears in your score.
Role list all will show all roles available in game. Role list active will show you all roles that are currently assigned to active players in the game (a sort of census). Role list inactive will show you all roles in the game in which are currently held by inactive players. Role list free will show you all roles in the game that no one is playing.
Role Search <keyword> will search role titles for the keywords supplied. Role Requires <requirement type> <value> will show you all roles that are available given a certain criteria, such as followers or purchase cost.
Finally, Role Watch # will tell you when a role you have marked for your interest has become vacant, and Role Request # <message> will allow you to purchase a role off an inactive player and leave them a message.
ROLE PARTS
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[ID#]: The ID number is a unique, 5-digit number automatically generated by Fortuna
Name: What appears on the who list as the player title. Max 19 characters
Titles: Does this role confer some level of official title? Default is "None"
Tier: 1-3 (where 1 is restricted - similar to GLs, nobles, etc on TI)
Tier 1 roles are unique roles - only 1 can exist in-play on any character, active or inactive.
Tier 2 roles provide special benefits to the player.
Tier 3 roles are non-unique and the same role ID can belong to as many players as choose to take it.
Desc: This is a bit of text regarding the history of the role. It may be a few
paragraphs long. Max 3200 characters long.
RRPP : (Responsibilities, Rights, Powers & Privileges) Explains the IC benefits of the role. Also a description field. Max 3200 characters long.
Faction: Which group the role belongs to. One or more of the following list:
A: Optimate G: Legion M: Augur S: Senator
B: Populare H: Equite N: Slum Brotherhood
C: Independent I: Citizen O: Patrician
D: Enlisted Military J: Non-citizen P: Plebian
E: Auxilary Military K: Slave Q: Epicurean
F: Officers Military L: Flamen R: Stoic
Requirements: Requirements a player must meet before the role can be purchased.
Whenever a player logs into the game, the game will check to
ensure they still meet the necessary requirements. If the player
does not, a timer will start, and they have two OOC weeks to meet
the requirements before the timer hits zero, and the role is
removed. They will receive a login message telling them how many
days they have left on their role, or to inform them that their
role has been stripped from their character.
Types of requirements may include one or many of the following:
- Number of Followers (may be a calculation based on the census)
- Base skill rank.
- A minimum age
- Prestige (Family, Personal, Faction)
- Money in the bank
- Social Class
- A specific type of patron
- A specific level of patron
- A specific current role or historical role ID.
- A minimum amount of time in a given role ID.
- Not be excluded by specific previous roles.
- Certain roles may only be available during specific seasons/months/days in-game ('election' periods).
- A specific tribe.
Commands: Any special commands conferred by having the role.
Cost: Base XP outlay to purchase the role.
Wage: Wages added once an OOC week before upkeep deductions
Availability: # of this role available in game between all active/inactive players. 1 means it is a unique role. This may be a calculation based on how many active players of this role exist in-game relative to the active pbase.
Role Requesting and Losing Roles
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- It is possible to "steal" someone else's role. Typically, this requires only that
you meet the requirements if they are RP inactive for 4 consecutive OOC weeks.
- If you take another player's role, you and the other player are responsible to work
out what happened ICly and the player who gained the role shall enter the changeover
into the master timeline. If the other player is not available to discuss it, you
may enter a proposed scenario to be approved by a staff member. The staff member will
send a final, approved scenario to both players that must be taken as historical fact.
- A player may lose a role while active if they fail to maintain the requirements to
hold that role. They will receive a warning, then have 1 week to regain the
requirements, or the role is freed for someone else to purchase.
- Roles are purchased on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Definitions
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- Tier 1: unique, powerful positions. Typically senatorial.
- Tier 2: non-unique roles that confers game benefits such as privilages and/or powers.
- Tier 3: non-unique roles that do not confer any special benefits and/or commands.
