Talk:New Decepticon City?

Excise's Comments
I'm at work and can't log in at the moment. Here're my comments.

1. I have no problems with a new Decepticon base on Earth and moving the Shark (and other bases) there. The Shark is neat but getting there is kinda awkward sometimes. Building new bases is standard stuff and so long as people are willing to RP the construction, sweet.

2. I'm also fine with starting up a massive brawl in . Wouldn't mind seeing Cybertron instead, but Mexico works. Note that I don't think distance makes that big of a difference. IE, choosing Mexico cause it's (relatively) close to Alameda probably won't matter. That said, Mexico is as good as anything and of course has a historic appeal due to it being the old Militant home.

3. You mention the notion of giving the Autobots a place to attack. This is a noble cause but historically difficult to carry out, as it is sometimes assumed that a Decepticon base requires an army to attack rather than a couple Autobot dudes, mostly due to any attack being assumed to be all-or-nothing. IE, any attack must defeat every Decepticon defender and if they do, the city gets razed to the ground. So unless Metroplex + army is there, forget about it.

Conversely, nobody minds two Decepticons attacking a widget factory in Timbuktu cause the rest of Timbuktu will be fine. You've said that Autobot attacks would work more like this; attack a portion rather than the whole thing. This is good. Continue stressing that.

So what I'm saying is that this will require a large mentality shift from the heroes and villains for this to work.

4. Concerning human slaves, they should be just that. *Slaves*. It is sometimes suggested that life under the Decepticons would be better than life not under the Decepticons due to getting three meals a day, having work, etc. This needs to be avoided. Life under the Decepticons should *suck*. They are brutal, vicious (though sometimes comedic) monsters who will not spare the lash. The 'work' is slave labour. The 'meals' are watery gruel. Avoid any kind of Red Dawn nonsense where the Decepticons turn into the heroes.

5. I am in the minority when it comes to my opinion on Cityformers. Namely, I don't think they should be unstoppable. I see no reason why a Con strike force can't defeat Metroplex, or a Bot squad defeat Trypticon. I vote for Metroplex not wiping them off the map cause he'd probably lose. That said, Cityformers are fantastically useful as cities, so the Autobots moving Metro nearby in order to serve as a base would be great.

6. Violence RP begets non-violence RP. Giving people reasons to fight is just fine, and usually results in more social scenes anyway as people get repaired, conduct strategy sessions, run scouting missions, building death lasers, etc.