The Purpose of RP Tokens

How does one obtain a monster sprite costume? How would you obtain ‘ownership’ of a business? Maybe you run a gang, and need to account for ‘NPC’ characters? Your character idea demands you be part of the Schwarzwald senate! Or perhaps, you’re gunning to be a high priest of a faith? All these things require going through the ‘proper channels’ of authority. However, it’s not so cut-and-dry as submitting an application.

Enter Role Play Tokens. Role-play tokens are a reward for your contributions to the community on a role-play facet. They are earned through several different means.

These touch on the most basic ways, certainly if you have a good suggestion we’re all ears!

These tokens will not be available for trade. Meaning what you earn must go towards you. This is to encourage people to roleplay, and work their way up the ‘ladder’. There’s plenty of ways to earn, as listed above. You just need to make your contribution. When it comes to written contributions, please make sure the quality of the contribution is within Aeon’s standards. Three sentence articles per example, won’t really ‘cut it’, considering the time invested towards events and role-plays in comparison.

Purchasing RP Privileges

That’s right, privileges. What we’re providing are privileges, not a right. What we’re willing to provide you with this RP Currency demands direct moderator intervention. Just because you have the tokens to ‘afford’ something, does not mean you get it with no questions asked. Everything here has a specific demand, whether it be you discuss it briefly with a moderator, or formulate a write up to suit the request. However before assumptions are made, let’s go over the process.

A list will be provided for some basic purchases you can make with these tokens. Now - if there’s something on the list that doesn’t cover what you have in mind, talk it over with a Moderator! It doesn’t mean it can’t happen. You might not need to invest tokens, or you can have a cost ‘tailored’ to your request.

You will refer to this list for your cost, and when you’re ready to work out your plans, you must contact one of the RP Moderators. That is either Dove, Gizmo, Mandy, Miakoda or Sicarius. The best way to contact us is through IRC - you can use the java applet provided on the main website (which requires no installation other than your java be up to date), or find the connect information on the website if you have mIRC. The second way is to PM us through the forums, however this method will be slower, and an instant chat can expedite the process. The third option is to contact us on an Instant Messenger, this information provided under the staff profiles on the main website.

Role Play Token Purchase List

These ‘costs’ may fluctuate as we try to find a happy medium tailored best to the community. This will hopefully encourage role play and a more involved community on all fronts, with good benefits waiting on the horizon for your efforts.

Influence Characters- There is a maximum of one each per unique player. That is to say, you cannot be a Senator of the Schwarzwald Republic and part of the royal cabinet. You cannot be a high priest of Bashan and Anord. You may have only one character of Major Influence. Either it be Temple Leader of Bashan, the General of an army, a Schwarzwald senator- per player, you may chose only one of these to ascend to. However, you are not so limited on your ‘minor’ and ‘moderate’ influence characters.

Though Tokens are unavailable for trade, you can help a friend buy a Map Control and Map Enhancement, vouching your own tokens for this purpose. This will not be considered towards your ‘one map per character’, if you are not the one assuming control of the map. Pooling your earnings can be a great way to form an RP situation- however the fact they are unavailable for trade is to prevent potential abuse of the system.

The Effect Items will work a lot like the role play items of before, however they will not disappear upon use. Spammers Beware, if you use Effect Items in obnoxious ways and disrupt the community with them, the item will be deleted from your inventory without refund.

Last but not least, tokens do not guarantee you will get something. As stated, it’s a privilege not a right. However, as before, Moderators will work above and beyond to try and get your ideas to work, or supplement suggestions to assist in making your RP needs come to life. Our goal is not to shut you down, but rather find ways where everyone is happy. We can’t say that this is plausible 100% of the time, as some things certainly will flat out not be feasible. But when there’s a will, there’s a way!