Purpose: To oversee the DRAW Your Own Story thread, to make recommendations pertaining to the thread, and to uphold the quality of DYOS overall.

Link to DYOS X (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=244426)

Any forumer who posts a cartoon is automatically entered into the consulate, and can debate on issues relating to the story. To pass a motion, a majority vote of 66% of the consulate is required. If, however, a week has passed and no further action has been taken regarding the motion, the vote will be tallied as it stands.

Members are suspended from the consulate if they have not contributed to the story for a week (they are automatically reinstalled when they post a new cartoon). If you will be inactive for a prolonged period of time, please be courteous and notify the consul beforehand.

The consul oversees the following:
* Planning and organizing the story
* Placing posters on probation (see below)
* Expelling posters from the consulate (and thus, involvement in the story)
* Decisions regarding the future of the thread itself

If a poster has violated any of the rules of DYOS, the consulate will vote to place the perpetrator on probation.
1st Probation: 2 days between comics
2nd Probation: 3 days between comics
3rd Probation: 5 days between comics
If the offender continues to break the rules, the consul may suspend the offender indefinitely.

Note that the intent of the consul is not to control the story's contributors, but to improve plot coherency, and hopefully the story overall. Whether or not you are a contributor or observer, please feel free to voice your recommendations. We're here as much for your enjoyment as our own!

Members:
(Suspended names in brackets)
(Abaddon); (azzaman333); Bratmon; (kulade); CivGeneral; Captain2; (Charles Li); choxorn; CivCube; e350tb; (GuitarHero); (Judge_Deadd); Kan' Sharuminar; (kill fire); lord_joakim; (Love); Macha; (Mjwhear); (mythmonster2); (Nuclear kid); Perfection; (Splime); (Stylesjl); Stylesrj; (Swedishguy); (Symphony D.); taillesskangaru; (TheBladeRoden); Thorvald of Lym;

9 votes needed for majority ruling

First Probation:
none :goodjob:

Second Probation:
none :goodjob:

Third Probation:
none :goodjob:

Expelled:
none :goodjob:

I believe our first order of business is to vote on kill fire's proposed subplot:

Here is an alternative plotline: Thunderfall has been kidnaped by zombies and they are using his awsome power to spread they zombie virus all over civfanatics. It's up to us to save him and all of civfanatics.
I don't want to throw it out the window post-haste; can it be integrated into the existing story?

Ideas, anyone?

I believe our first order of business is to vote on kill fire's proposed subplot:


I don't want to throw it out the window post-haste; can it be integrated into the existing story?

Ideas, anyone?

DYOS has always been very fluid in nature. It won't take long at all for the original gimick of the thread to be thrown right out the window in favour of whatever the hell the contributors come up with. As long as this body prevents an abrupt turn in any given direction, things should be fine.

I think we should have a plot where I kick everybody's ass.

DYOS has always been very fluid in nature. It won't take long at all for the original gimick of the thread to be thrown right out the window in favour of whatever the hell the contributors come up with. As long as this body prevents an abrupt turn in any given direction, things should be fine.

True, true...

I'm just a bit worried this will destabilize things too early. It can provide an explanation for the whole 'Avatar Wars' concept, though:
Thunderfall is captured, sudden lack of authority, CFC mods lose control, weird stuff happens.

I think we should have a plot where I kick everybody's ass.:lol: You mean like DYOS 3 & 4?

I think we should have a plot where I kick everybody's ass.

Isn't that just day-to-day life at CFC?


Or are you looking for more of a "Perfection Kills Everyone" motif?

TheBladeRoden nominates himself for Council er.. consul.

Dammit, I KNEW I forgot someone!

Added. :)

Oh the thread's up! Goody, I better get my screenshots...

You forgot me too!

I like this proposed storyline:

I'm just a bit worried this will destabilize things too early. It can provide an explanation for the whole 'Avatar Wars' concept, though:
Thunderfall is captured, sudden lack of authority, CFC mods lose control, weird stuff happens.

Good idea I think. Someone could write that in while the comics are going. We have no clue why the avatars are rising and then BAM! We find out soon

I dunno... I think it's better if the discovery is eased in after the story has gained momentum. You don't deal with mutineers by saying, "Gee, I wonder what caused this?"

Did you ever notice that DYOS ends up being FOPSYCMYOS (Flame Other People So You Can Make Your Own Story).

A bit late to respond to:

I think we should have a plot where I kick everybody's ass.

Man, guys why didn't we choose this plot in the first place!? It's better than what we've already got! :lol:

Tell me Perfection, does it include Giant Death Robots?

Can i join?

You most certainly can!

Hey, where's Rheinmetall?

Haven't seen 'im around much... Mind, the amount of time he invests in his cartoons leaves us to shame.
When he posts, he'll be added.

Just double checking....no-one actually minds my comic, do they?

Just to let everyone know, I like being mocked in these comics so feel free to ridicule/play with/harm/kill off my character if you so wish.

Do you think the staff is reasonable? Or should I get it changed so it only banishes avatars with a localised teleporter?

May I join?

May he join?

Since he posted, he may.

Added. :)

Do you think the staff is reasonable? Or should I get it changed so it only banishes avatars with a localised teleporter?Well... right now, it's pushing the envelope oh-so-slightly. As long as you confine it to use against your avatars, it should be tolerable.

Can I put the zombies in now?

Can you give us an outline of how you plan to introduce them? Just to make sure it'll be fluid.

Can i make quotes from movies that doesent fit reality?

Delete me

10 char

It doesn't seem like too much of a plot twist to me. We needed to figure out was happening sooner or later.

Although, I would suggest not putting that into the story immediately, and waiting for a few more comics and the figuring out of things will make more sense.

It's a great idea, though! I didn't do anything to inspire this, did I? :p

Tailless, it's not the Gravebringers, it's just Jal! The other Gravebringers were all dead and Kwai joined because of the cutbacks.

It's something along those lines.

Hmmm, instead of zombies, why don't we just make Thunderfall be assasinated and we start pointing fingers at someone *cough* Stylesrj *cough* (Well, in DYOS 9 you did say you were OK with being an enemy.)

My comics sucks, right?

Noooooo... I find them mildly amusing.

Hark! I finally found my first avatar!
http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/osamabinsaladin.jpg

Hmmm, instead of zombies, why don't we just make Thunderfall be assasinated and we start pointing fingers at someone *cough* Stylesrj *cough* (Well, in DYOS 9 you did say you were OK with being an enemy.)

Well because he was kidnaped not killed and the zombies are using him to spre the zombie virus.

You could point the fingers at me and I have to do a sub-quest to clear my name of the kidnapping :lol:

Can i join?

Hmmm, instead of zombies, why don't we just make Thunderfall be assasinated and we start pointing fingers at someone *cough* Stylesrj *cough* (Well, in DYOS 9 you did say you were OK with being an enemy.)

O no that'd be sacrilege. ;)

Can i join?

Sure, just make a comic.

Mjwhear, remember the plot and remember your old avatars.

I'll give you a reminder of a few:

Modern Armour (Mjwhear)
Communist Modern Armour (Mjcommie) (not actually an avatar used, but common in DYOS)
Several variations of the Communist Modern Armour (includes Rifle Mjcommie, AK-47 Mjcommie, Scheduler Mjcommie, Nikita (Panzershcreck Mjcommie), ICBM Mjcommie)
Armoured Command Unit Mjwhear
And now your Clone Commando Avatar...

That's who you're up against, except for the last one (you're using it!)

Mjwhear, remember the plot and remember your old avatars.

I'll give you a reminder of a few:

Modern Armour (Mjwhear)
Communist Modern Armour (Mjcommie) (not actually an avatar used, but common in DYOS)
Several variations of the Communist Modern Armour (includes Rifle Mjcommie, AK-47 Mjcommie, Scheduler Mjcommie, Nikita (Panzershcreck Mjcommie), ICBM Mjcommie)
Armoured Command Unit Mjwhear
And now your Clone Commando Avatar...

That's who you're up against, except for the last one (you're using it!)
So you mean that they're my enemies?

Yeah, those avatars are your enemies. They're angry at you for abandoning them for a new avatar (even if you did give them closure) and want to either kill you or give payback. Why? Who know,s we'll figure it out as the plot goes on. The Avatar Supreme Commander is most likely behind it all

O.k. i know what to do!

I'm interested in revealing who that "great spammer" in DYOS X is. Or is it too early to do that?

he better be me.

Hmmmm, on second thought Styles is occupied by his old avatars, so yeah, zombies works.

I have revealed the Great Spammer! He's not Perfection, since Perfection is a magnificient spammer.

Is it ok if i kill someone in a simulization?

Yes... I love voodoo too! :p

@Swedishguy:
Flippin' heck! It's an intriguing twist, but MUCH too soon! Tone it down a bit until everybody else has a firm footing plot-wise.

(i.e. Whatever happened to mythmonster2?
No, I'm not rushing!)

I say we start a vote to make Swedishguy post that comic later.

As for mythmonster, he is probably at the Avatar Supreme Commander's Hideout thingy in Antarctica.

Nah, my comic's here. Just school delayed me. And, for my location, Choxorn, you're off. Try a little higher.

Everyone please put DYOS X link in your sig. We must spread the word!!! :D

I would, but I prefer Nuclear Launch Detected for now...

I would, but I prefer Nuclear Launch Detected for now...

Lol make it a link to the DYOS thread, like this:

Nuclear Launch Detected (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=244426)

Nah, it does not work well...

Very well.

First proper vote of the consulate:
Postpone Swedishguy's comic until the story has developed further?

I'd say Aye

I have revealed the Great Spammer! He's not Perfection, since Perfection is a magnificient spammer.That better be higher then great spammer.

@ Resolution:

I'd say no. I don't see why it should be postponed. It's not that big a plot twist, is it?

I agree with Tailless. It's not a big twist at all. Does not affect much...

I change my vote to Nay

My vote is Nay.

I vote nay! (And this is at school!)

Naynaynay, then i wont have a mission to succed whith

I have released my comic to the world and woven it into the rest of the story. Enjoy this new plot element!

I like!

Postpone Swedishguy's comic until the story has developed further?
Votes in Favour: 0
Votes Against: 5

We'll wait another day before ruling.

I arbitraily vote in favour

I also reject the notion that this consul is the boss of me, and I reserve the right to do whatever the hell I want :smug:

Damn! Looks like we lost! :lol:

To answer Judge's question in the DYOS, here's how the Civ IV Civopedia and Ground Based things work:

EDIT: Finally

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a281/stylesrj/Other/CivIVStuff.jpg

Basically the big Civopedia image is also the same one used in the game, just that it can be rotated

You may recall that once upon a time I proposed a showcase of DYOS past. Well, I've finally remembered to create the thread!
Here it is:

Best of DYOS (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=245803)

Come to the gallery and hang your favourite works on the wall!
(Refreshments not included)

Meh, you all suck.

I still vote aye, it really changes things. A lot. :rolleyes:

You may recall that once upon a time I proposed a showcase of DYOS past. Well, I've finally remembered to create the thread!
Here it is:

Best of DYOS (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=245803)

Come to the gallery and hang your favourite works on the wall!
(Refreshments not included)

:D :goodjob:

Maybe I'll post something if I have time.

Do you think my comic is unreasonable? I mean, it is the Heck Outta Here (but it's one use only and when combined with a staff, it cannot be uncombined unless the staff is destroyed, but then the Heck Outta Here is destroyed and we have to wait for another plot allowance to acquire a new one)

Well, it's reasonable if you can't just walk into a place and pick up the Heck Outta Here.

In other words, one does not simply take a Heck Outta Here, they must do something first.

Well that's the thing. You have to find it first, but my Avatars have destroyed Apolyton, but my character does not know about this. They also got the information for the Heck Outta Here and are heading for its location.

There will be defences and stuff for it. That's why my Avatar Army cannot occupy Apolyton, because it is expensive and they need their massive fleets for their upcoming mission

Relax. The HOH won't end the story. That's a promise ;)

Well the Heck Outta Here could multiply. For example, the Avatar Army finds one, but then another one appears because the plot allows it and I find it, and then perhaps I'll throw in a third person for good measure and it'll be an epic battle of avatar proportions between HOH powered staffs, and then the ASC aquires one, probably off the 3rd person or SEAL SEAL and then has the biggest staff of all and we have to make battle with them.

I'll call it "The Staff wars" and everyone compares the sizes of their staffs :lol:

I'm on the verge of entering with something rather ... interesting.

At the moment it need only take the form of vague ominous-ness that will eventualy provide a deeper backing for the whole Avatar War thing.

Knowing my history with DYOS, it'll be som time before I even think of following up on it.

No matter... your artistic talent alone is worth the wait!

Postpone Swedishguy's comic until the story has developed further?
Votes in Favour: 3
Votes Against: 5

MOTION FAILS

HOWEVER, considering kulade's introduction, Swedishguy should consult with him on how to proceed.

I'll have my own comic on how I enter the ASC base. I don't think being pulled in by a tractor beam and being searched is it. So until then, I recommend that the Omega Battleship does not reach Earth/CivFanatics until I say it's ready to (as it is my ship and my characters are in it...)

You might also wonder where the clone Omega Battleship came from.
Apolyton, being a Civ forum has Omega Battleships in their boards because they're a Civ unit

So since Kulade is the villain of the story, I would like to introduce another character I could use as a protagonist. So I can be a primary character and only control Kulade on special confrontations. Any ideas for a character?

Edit: delete me.

Hmm. Since Kulade is a cyber-jug-of-juice...
Whoa. Let me get my head around that.
...The protagonist should be something to counter those qualities, like a 100% organic energy bar, or something.

Or it could be an MI-6 agent employed by a rival food company. Can't go wrong with a spy!

I'm quitting DYOS. Since my character was already killed off anyway this won't effect the plot much. Goodbye everyone.

That makes me think. How about a gallon of Soy Milk? That's a healthy alternative to kool-aid. His secret mission will be to take out kulade or something general like that.

I like... I like...


Sorry to hear you go, tailless! A damn shame, too; I felt you had one of the more intriguing story arcs.

I'll try to keep your spirit alive. :salute:

I have an idea! Kulade of a different flavor! :lol:

How does this look? The left is the half-gallon protagonist "Curdle" and the big one on the right is the boss back at the HQ:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/39380/soydraft.PNG


I was thinking maybe Styles could meet up with Curdle at the Braxis Eatery.

That's giving me the lolz! :goodjob:
The introduction sounds good, too. Hopefully Stylesrj will approve.

Aaaaargh. If there's one thing we don't need in this comic, it's new characters and plot points. At the moment, there are so many characters that I canb't remember 1/3 of them, and the plot is so confusing and hole-ridden that I just have no freakin' idea what's going on.

Point taken, but I think most of these continuity troubles are primarily at the hands of a select few posters.

Now, I'm trying to be as nice as I can when I say Stylesrj, tone it down. You seemed to have made improvement in the beginning of the thread, but now you're sinking back into that destructive cycle of DYOSes past. May I recommend that you look over your early works from DYOS 5, so as to see what made those works so enjoyable, as well as how you advanced the story so clearly. I hate to have to say it, but not only do you seem to be progressing rather clumsily through your story, your comics are rather boring.

Please, don't take it personally. I mean this as constructive criticism; God knows we've seen enough flaming to last its own story. But I don't want to see DYOS X crash and burn like so many others, or this whole concept of the consul will have been for naught.

To understand my charectors, all you need is a absic knowledge of Civ and to read my comics.

Here is my (hopefully) linier plot so far.

-I die. Timmy, Cosmo and Wanda take over.
-The train crashes and my team goes into space.
-We meet Stylesrj, then get lost again when Starbug crashes. Wanda gets captured and is now with choxorn for now.

You forgot Cosmo being mind-controlled.

And most of the characters are either Stylesrj's SEALS or e350tb's enemy foreign leaders.

Here's my basic plotline:

-I am ambushed by the mindless drone and his army at Mt. Kilimanjaro.
-A battle ensues there between Stylesrj, the army, and Commodore SEAL. I, meanwhile, escape on to Rtas Vadumee's Phantom, which has been taken over by the Mindless Drone.
-I end up frozen, captured, and meet with Wanda in a prison sell under the ASC's Antarctic Base. Later, we get rescued by Stylesrj and Kwai, or rather by a pizza delivery guy.
-I use Stylesrj's Arbiter to search for Rtas's Phantom, and find a way to retake it. Unfortunately, I find it, plus a very large fleet commanded by Prophet SEAL, which chases me for a while, and then I crash into the hangar Prophet SEAL's Cruiser.

It's more complicated than e350's, or mythmonster's, but it's far less complicated than Stylesrj's.

Heh, yeah mine is pretty simple
-I get captured by avatars.
-Nuke explodes
-I'm in the air. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Thanks to you three :)

My story so far:
- I get killed by my old Cavlary avatar
- Cavalry decides to contact the SEALs and exchange the info from my computer for the Luxury Diamond
- which will allow him to activate his shapechanging power permanently.

Can i kill swedishguy?

I should see what made my first comics good...
I know, it always happens. It starts off good, but then it degrades as I advance... I just don't know why it happens.

If I were to summarise my comics, it'd be a pretty big list as so much happened in about 21 comics.

Now the Braxis Eatery thing would be good, meeting the rival kulades. Go for it

You know, I was thinking. I think DYOS has lost allot of value not because it has no storyline, but because the joke value has decreased. I think we should really focus on making jokes rather than writing a novel.

Crazy idea, huh?

EDIT: I'll probably make a comic for the Braxis Eatery soon.

I know, it always happens. It starts off good, but then it degrades as I advance... I just don't know why it happens.I think the problem lies in how you tell the story. Marshall McLuhan was a brilliant man, but for our intents and purposes, the medium should not be the message. I think that you start to rely too heavily on the screenshots to tell the story, and it ends up looking like a Tom Clancy novel.

I think DYOS has lost allot of value not because it has no storyline, but because the joke value has decreased. I think we should really focus on making jokes rather than writing a novel.

Crazy idea, huh?That's where the enjoyment lies: early DYOS 5 was great because it was funny; not everyone had a story to tell, but we didn't mind because we were entertained. At around Page 20, the story turned too serious and militaristic, and the whole thing degenerated into a power play. I think the failure with recent DYOSes has been that posters place the story first, and humour second. It's this that we need to avoid.

A problem with all collaborative stories is that authors are more interested in introducing their own characters/plot elements etc. and using them, than in using other people's creations.

I think the problem lies in how you tell the story. Marshall McLuhan was a brilliant man, but for our intents and purposes, the medium should not be the message. I think that you start to rely too heavily on the screenshots to tell the story, and it ends up looking like a Tom Clancy novel.

That's where the enjoyment lies: early DYOS 5 was great because it was funny; not everyone had a story to tell, but we didn't mind because we were entertained. At around Page 20, the story turned too serious and militaristic, and the whole thing degenerated into a power play. I think the failure with recent DYOSes has been that posters place the story first, and humour second. It's this that we need to avoid.

This I agree with more than totally. (especially the bolded part)

A problem with all collaborative stories is that authors are more interested in introducing their own characters/plot elements etc. and using them, than in using other people's creations.

While this may be true it doesn't effect the humour in (say) DYOS 1 or early DYOS 5.

Can't the next DYOS be based on this (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=6048961&postcount=64) post, or other posts like that?

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x39/Swedishguy/DYOSXNapoleon.jpg
I figure I'd try to get into the plotline somehow. I'd be happy to get some response to this!

I have a plot to explain... BUT i managed to do it another way...

And i ask this question again, can i kill swedisguy?

I have a plot to explain...
Well, go ahead.

I've edited....

Can i kill swedishguy?

I've edited....

Can i kill swedishguy?
No, you may not. Maybe in the end, but not right now!

Can't the next DYOS be based on this (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=6048961&postcount=64) post, or other posts like that?

You know, there are several in that post not playing that game, and I do NOT want that! :p

@Swedishguy: You know, no one but you knows what the hell a Babale is.

Your a suspect...

balhblahblah...

Catharsis, see above.

Choxorn, want all games exept the DYOS gone.

Style, see above.

blah....

My point is that I'm not in NOTW 11, so why the hell am I a suspect?

It hasnt to do anything about the game, its just the murder case...

Oh man, guys, I got grounded just as I came with a funny comic idea. (I'm typing this while my mom's outta the room. ;))

I'm sticking with humour and advancing the story while doing so .Such as with the Mobile Oppression Palace being at the spaceport, and Kwai's good news. There's plot advancement (in a slow way) plus humour

Um...can we cancel swedishguys last two comics? They kinda wrecked my plot.

(Oh, and I'll be gone a week)

Um...can we cancel swedishguys last two comics? They kinda wrecked my plot.

:shake: No. Just no.

I wish there would be a comic posted today... it feels empty no one wants to post. I mean, we're all trying our best and all but, can we get some activity?

I'm juggling too many things as it is! ;)

I'm hoping to get a new cartoon in this weekend. Sorry everyone, but I don't think I'll achieve three-in-a-row. I REALLY want to get out of Iraq; the sooner, the better.

Still nothing in 2 days...

Can we get some activity over here. I mean this consul was created for DYOS and if there's no DYOS going on, then what's the use of this?

I would have posted a comic, had the power not gone out while I was in the middle of making it!

Swedishguy, he has a point. You cannot just wreck someone's plot. I vote yes to getting rid of those 2 comics. You also have to explain to us what the hell is so frightening about babales!

Oh, this is to be put to a vote, is it?
Very well...

Delete Swedishguy's recent cartoons? (Posts 146 and 150)
Votes in Favour: 2
Votes Against: 1

SG, this takes me back to the Styles-CivGeneral belligerence of DYOSes past. You CANNOT tamper with other people's characters in such a drastic way and then claim immunity. The Rules even state, and I quote:
No direct harm or spontaneous plot change involving another poster's character without said poster's consent.If you continue to flaunt the rules, we will put you on probation. Consider this your 'second chance'.

Apparently Bables are the ultimate creature in the game Impossible Creatures. Or so I gather from his dialogue elsewhere.

EDIT: I'll vote Aye. Delete cartoons because everyone seems to hate it

ah, i'm leaving this project. The plot is now nothing but pure chaos and confusion.

We need more humour. You've noticed the increase of jokes about things than ever before?

well, frankly i dont like the main idea whith the X

If you've followed DYOSes past, you will have learned that the starting quest is almost never carried through the whole story. It serves to give the start of the story a boost; over time, the plot will evolve/devolve/mutate into something else.

If you have any suggestions you would like to put forward, this is the place to do it! :)

ah, i'm leaving this project. The plot is now nothing but pure chaos and confusion.Aw shucks.
Truth be told, I don't think the story is that bad... yet. It's a shame CivGeneral is unavailable. He -usually- does a great job of holding the story together. In my defense, I would've teamed up with another DYOSer, but as you can see, my cartoons have been progressing rather slowly.

Either way, I'm sorry to see you go. I'll try to keep your memory alive. :salute:

CivGeneral would be a good person to see in DYOS, but the constant fighting every time we meet is quite annoying and it leads to a degradation of the series and turns into a vulgar brawl.
Then Stylesjl adds artillery to it and the dignity returns...

Delete Swedishguy's recent cartoons? (Posts 146 and 150)
Votes in Favour: 2
Votes Against: 1


This is now 3 against 1, so I think this vote passes after a week of inactivity, and Swedishguy must remove those comics.

So be it!

Delete Swedishguy's recent cartoons? (Posts 146 and 150)
Votes in Favour: 3
Votes Against: 1

MOTION PASSES

SG, please replace or remove the offending comics.


I'll also take this opportunity to pardon my absence. I've a number of crucial RL demands this week, and I won't be posting a cartoon for another few days. However, I'll take a look at amending the rules after this fairly long interval of no activity. If anybody has their own amendment to suggest, I'm all ears. :)

I'm subscribed and ready for duty!

This is pretty much dead, though. Haven't had a comic for like, a month.

Shush, you! We need all the help we can get! :p

Look over the thread and add a comic as you see fit. You can work with the base storyline (avatar mutiny) or not; your choice. Make sure your cartoon integrates well with other people's contributions (i.e. doesn't step on people's toes) and abides by the Rules of DYOS.

Above all else, have FUN!!
(And make it universally funny if at all possible. Sorely needed and much appreciated.)

I added one now, lets see whether you like it or not :p

Not bad... could use a punchline.
Something like "Oh no! I thought it was just a legend!"

The More, the merryer.

Yes, I have returned :).

Huzzah! Let's declare a public holiday.

Wwwwooooooooooooooooooooooo Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

Public holiday? Eh... I'm a bit too busy to make a comic. BUT! I will make one, just to annoy you all! But not right now!

Adding one more, for you, today :evil:

All right, looks like this is rising from the dead!

What, after I return. The DYOS miraculously resurrects? ;)

Nah, just more people apparently got inspired by you and everyone else came back.

Huzzah!

It's like an early Christmas present! :crazyeye:

You see, we need the regulars in DYOS these days to keep it up. I just lost interest because of Halo 3 and the Xbox 360. Viva piñata is a good game as well...

Welcome back CivGeneral, let's hope no arguments arise or something. It always requires someone with inspiration to resurrect a thread

Hey guys, posted a comic, but it may be pushing the no magic rule a bit too much. Is it OK?

Make it a really advanced teleporter,

Or go with the Arbiter Recall from Starcraft...

Seems alright...

I'd like to take this opportunity to propose a change to the Consulate. Looking back on our couple of referenda, I want to reduce the required majority vote to 2/3 as kulade originally suggested. It's hard enough just getting the majority to vote!

SO...

Amend Majority Rule to 2/3 from 3/4?
Votes in Favour:1
Votes Against:0

It would be greatly appreciated if everybody could vote on this. :trouble:

I vote yes.

Yah, since usually, 75% doesn't vote!

I vote yes, if I'm still in this.

Yes...

...XCL

I vote yes, too.

Me be voting yes to that uggabugga

Oui! tenchar

No, because I refuse to jump on the bandwagon! :lol:

...but all the cool kids are doing it...

I vote no.

Just to be different ;)

Yeah! Fight the power!

yes..................

Okay! Who wants to jump out of the thread along with Thunderfall in my comic?????? :D

Amend Majority Rule to 2/3 from 3/4?
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@lord_joakim: I'd better volunteer, considering all the hardships I caused you. :p

@Thorvald of Lym: it's rolling online then :D

Okay, The Fudgehog was funny the first few times, but now it's just plain annoying. Stylesrj has used it too much in his past few comics- I would say enough that it qualifies as a major character.

Hence, he's breaking the 3-Major-Character limit.

Stylesjl uses Fergy and CivGeneral used him for the "OH FUDGE!" line.

So Fergy is a common character who anyone can use when an "OH FUDGE!" moment pops up. He's not a main character for me, he just pops up coincidentally in every one of my comics so far...

So how about we make Fergy the Fudgehog a common character? That way, we can all use him and do whatever we want to him

Who cares? He's still not funny.

(Someone back me up on this.)

I know Fergy isn't funny. I did a bit of overkill with him. Sorry about that.

But if you want, you can let Choxorn kill him again :lol:

That way he'll be funny... in death and the fact that he won't bother us again!

Good, let's make it slow and painful. :smug:

Piñata Party, anyone?

Okay, but let's try not to use him that much, okay? He gets annoying after a while.

How about I throw him into space from the Death Star and he falls to Earth, lands in a jungle and is beaten to death by little pygmy children?

I'll start the comic... :D

Make the Pygmy people Pacal II's forces who were trying to attack Montezilla, but they got lost and saw Fergy lying there and they had a piñata party...

Who cares? He's still not funny.

I agree, it's funny once, but it gets old when it's used repeditively

How about I throw him into space from the Death Star and he falls to Earth, lands in a jungle and is beaten to death by little pygmy children?

I'll start the comic... :D
Second! It would solve world hunger!

Stylesjl uses Fergy and CivGeneral used him for the "OH FUDGE!" line.
However, I only used it sparingly. I perfer having myself or another person say it. Not some fudge filled pinata

Nothing wrong with fudge. But still, Pacal II is having a Piñata war and a war with Monty via DEFCON... so I think putting Fergy in the middle of the war between partyers and piñatas would be funny...

Then at last he can say "OH FUDGE!" for the last time! :lol:
And he'll mean it too! Or you could have him cut off from saying his line by a bat

Well with the number of wars in DYOS at the moment the Fudgehog won't last long. :p

Nice update, taillesskangaru :D

Why don't make Fergy the Kenny of DYOS?

Because Kenny is an overused joke as well.

In response to kulade's last comic. Nothing sarcastic or hateful towards it. Just need some advice and also telling a few facts:

I waste too much time on my comics. I try and fabricate them in 20 minutes... turns out, I wasted an hour making it!

I used those partially visible white lines because black wouldn't show up in the picture either. Red smudges too much and basically any other colour would look crappy, so white had to do. Sorry

I think it's called natural decay when it comes to my comics. I start off good or at least I'm likeable, but as the time goes by, the comics just decay into crappyness...

Do you know any solutions to preventing this decay? I don't think length is the issue. My comics are not as long as most of CivGeneral's and you read his.

I spend too much time making those 1-off screenshots that are never seen again, the plotline for me involves very little interaction and also involves me trying to stop the bad guy and my avatars... I keep changing main characters too much

When I make a comic, I usually put extra dialogue things in, because if I don't, things can happen and it annoys me, for example the raiders get blown up and captured even if they were not on those fleets.

Those are some problems, but are there any more and how can they be fixed?

Try to use as few panels and dialog as possible. The reason you have so much dialog may be because your characters always have drawn out discourse between each other. Premeditate your entire comic; crop your images; draw some and don't borrow all of your backgrounds from other games.

Sometimes I feel you try to cram too much into too little a space. Frankly, when half the comic is a synopsis of itself, you might not be communicating your story clearly. And clarity almost always equals quality.

It's the only gripe I have with CivGeneral's cartoons (besides his misspelling my name :p): the text bubbles are positioned more for room in the panel than flow for the reader, and sometimes the dialogue is choppy as a result. This has the unfortunate effect of diminishing quality, and thus, my enjoyment of the cartoon.

(Not to bash you, CG! You still make great comics!)

Another problem with CG's comics is he sometimes makes them big enough horizontally wise that one has to scroll the bar to read it all. That's not very annoying for short comics, since you don't have to scroll as much, but for comics as long as his...

Usually, he doesn't do that, but I've seen it several times whilst reading DYOS 8.

Anyway, back to Stylesrj. I agree with Thorvald and Kulade that you need to make your images bigger, not use a thousand different characters, and put a bit of effort into making the comics. I know, I usually just make my comic out of C+P'ed images from Google, but there are also several things in those comics that were (crappily) drawn by me.

You also need to do some editing to some of your images to look less crappy. ;)

Remember, it's not a race. Take the time you need to make good comics. I mean, look at me!
Actually, I might release a new comic soon. Fingers crossed.

I try to use bigger images, but I got to keep them within a certain frame thing, because I don't want to use the side-scroll bar and I don't want others to use it when I post it.
I use Speech Boxes to convey dialogue in those speech bubble scenes...
So I should take MORE time to make a comic? I already spend an hour or two making one because I try and get good screenshots through scripting or just plain luck!

Just think more about what you're going to do; don't include anything unnecessary. You could always just make your own screenshots or reuse parts of old ones.

I try to use bigger images, but I got to keep them within a certain frame thing, because I don't want to use the side-scroll bar and I don't want others to use it when I post it.
I use Speech Boxes to convey dialogue in those speech bubble scenes...
So I should take MORE time to make a comic? I already spend an hour or two making one because I try and get good screenshots through scripting or just plain luck!

Don't include too many texts, make your screenshots/pictures look better, use bigger images (if you are too lazy to use the scroll bar then just split your comics into parts) and spend more time (I usually take two hours or more to make a comic).

I don't have to split my comics into parts. What I'm worried more about is the horizontal bar. Seriously, I don't want to use it when making a comic or reading one. My mouse wheel only has one direction!

My comics take 10 mins or such. lol xD

Mine take on average half an hour.

But why do people have so much against Stylesrj? Seriously, I don't get what's wrong with his comics

His reputation is scarred from past friction with other forumers, especially CivGeneral and azzaman333. He was made notorious for powergaming in his comics (treating the story like a game of tactical warfare) and refusing to co-operate with other posters' storylines (although the blame can be shared by a few people). I'm certain the flames still haven't completely died away.

As for his comics, it's a matter of taste. Looking back on his work in DYOS 5, before page 20 when the thread began its downward spiral, very little changed in his cartooning style. I think all the negative social fallout leaves some people with a bitter taste, is all.

DYOS was always about the interaction and funny jokes... however, we seem to be losing that and just pursuing our own story needs. The idea of an avatar war isn't helping much as we all are pursuing our old avatars and interaction is only for a short while or not at all because we all gotta stop our avatars...

I liked the first DYOS (or was it second, I dunno which one had the Perfectiverse?) and that was confusing at first, but it actually got better as it was coming up near the end... then they started anew...

...we seem to be losing that and just pursuing our own story needs. The idea of an avatar war isn't helping much as we all are pursuing our old avatars and interaction is only for a short while or not at all because we all gotta stop our avatars...In defence, kulade and CivGeneral helped to unify the objective... depending on how they guide the story, they could rally us together in opposition to the united army of the Avatar Supreme Commander.

Just food for thought.

Speaking of kulade, whatever happened to Curdle the Soy Milk?

I think he died on Braxis. Because we didn't really expand on them, I was hoping Kulade would actually expand on them during the story part they were in, as they were his characters

I think the plot is too constructed and there's little free flow. Also, people have their own plot and appears to be very protective of their characters (although there's less of this now in the current thread). DYOS I was great because everyone was more relaxed about the whole thing and spend more time poking fun at each other rather than having a complicated storyline. I think DYOS 5 was the turning point where people lost interest in the thread and eventually the whole idea of a DYOS as it gets longer and more complicated.

Speaking of kulade, whatever happened to Curdle the Soy Milk?

Hmm, perhaps he is in the fridge aboard my ship. Just an idea to toss out to you Thorvald for your portion of the story :)

Hmm, thanks tailless, you gave me an idea.. I should poke fun at everyone and hurt their characters a lot and then you can deny it happened and then I do something else and we all laugh about it

Actually, it was probably DYOS 3 and 4, which both together have less than 100 posts, that no one liked. DYOS 2-4 can really be considered "The Dark Ages of the DYOS".

DYOS 1 was great because the people doing it didn't go to extreme levels (with the exception of Zarn and Mojotronica being killed a lot by CurtSibling) when they attacked each other, and the comics weren't very long, meaning everyone could answer to a threat that was introduced in the comic, rather than the comic-maker answering it himself. The only real flaw of it was Parallel Universes, Time Travel, and comics being posted every 5 minutes.

Unfortunately, with what DYOS is now, DYOS 1 wouldn't work because everyone would kill each other in one comic with unreasonable crap, and no one can get along (in particular, everyone hates Stylesrj and kill fire).

If we kill each other in one comic, we simply just come back and kill them.

"I'll get you with my fat rays!"

"I'll defeat you! Just after I have this roast pork!"

Exactly. It would be completely self-defeating.

I like the way it's going right now though. The plot has begun to grow awesome as we are united this way :D

I'm having a feeling, with the slowdown and such that we may need to send out PM reminders to the DYOSers.

Just post more comics. I can post a comic if you do...

And I'd post a comic if I had time to make one.
Real life is such a bugger.

I know. I think I'm just going to stay in the sidelines and make a bunch of jokes or something, like Rtas being called Half-Jaw and all that

And I'd post a comic if I had time to make one.
Real life is such a bugger.
You can say that again (Quoted materials don't count :p)

Yeah, I'm having less and less time for comics, plus I'm spending more of my previous comic time on RFMK and NOTW. :p

I'm writing up stuff, you know as in actual writing. I could make a novel or something!

Plus I'm playing The Sims 2, so I can get ideas (or screenshots for my ideas!)

I would post a comic except that I'm quite busy at the moment and the internet connection here sucks big time.

Maybe we should start over?

Maybe. Make it more lenient. Like DYOS 5 or DYOS 1. They were awesome... we need less rules

If there's not enough people interested it'd be useless starting a new thread anyway.

It had more popularity in the OT forums... that was the good days.

Ever since it had migrated to the Forum Games, no one comes anymore

It's not that people aren't interested, it's that no one has time.

A lot of people go to OT. Not many go here. It is a lack of interest in this forum. People would be interested if this were in the Off Topic Forums where it was before

However, the moderators consider the DYOS to be more of a game than a display of talents akin to the Drawing thread.

I think it would be good if DYOS is moved to Humour and Jokes.

I think it would be good if DYOS is moved to Humour and Jokes.

Agreed very much. That would solve a lot.

I just hope there are no qualms with the same poster posting a set of comics. Since I usually limit myself to wait until two other posters have posted their comics after I posted mines.

I wait until one person has posted. I follow the rules and if the board isn't active, I might just break it to get the DYOS flowing again...

Besides, they're not rules, they're more like guidelines anyway :mischief:

Really? So what if I were to not follow those guidelines and nuke you? :mischief:

Please don't let DYOS die :(

You can nuke me if you want. But I'll just make a comic where I return and then I nuke you.

Soon we're all nuking each other and it'll be a bloodbath that's funny!

I would use my usual Empire Earth screenshots or Tiberium Wars or Act of War stuff, but my computer got formatted a few weeks ago.

So all I got to use is The Sims 2 (which I won't use at all. Never for screenshots), Sim City 4, Doom, Warcraft II (which I don't think is screenshotable), and that 3D Pinball Game that comes standard with XP.

Also I got Billionaire and Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Seriously, I haven't got all my screenshot tools, so I'll be resorting to Google a lot (and I only recently got Photoshop back, but it's not like I use it anyway)

You can nuke me if you want. But I'll just make a comic where I return and then I nuke you.

Soon we're all nuking each other and it'll be a bloodbath that's funny!
I hope you know the consequence of powergaming :nono:.

I know the consequences:

A hell of a lot of laughs, a whole bunch of angry people and everyone powergames! Everybody wins!


To answer the thing on the DYOS thread:
I was outside the base and in your second-to-last panel you said you were going to confront me. A bit hard to do when you ran past me and Chuck when you used the back door :lol:

To answer the thing on the DYOS thread:
I was outside the base and in your second-to-last panel you said you were going to confront me. A bit hard to do when you ran past me and Chuck when you used the back door :lol:
Let me fix that, to make you quit laughing :rolleyes:.

To answer the thing on the DYOS thread:
I was outside the base and in your second-to-last panel you said you were going to confront me. A bit hard to do when you ran past me and Chuck when you used the back door :lol:

Let me fix that.

Ok, go ahead and fix it. I'll figure out a solution, then you figure one out to counter it and we all go countering each other

Ok, go ahead and fix it. I'll figure out a solution, then you figure one out to counter it and we all go countering each other

No counterings! Thats why there's a "no powergaming" rule in the first place! (And perhaps why I am very hesitant to interact with your comics)

I'll figure out something.

Just a heads up to the Council. I don't want Stylesrj preventing me from escaping SEAL SEAL's ship.

As long as you don't cause too much damage to the carrier, I'll let you escape :lol:

Seriously, why would I want to prevent you from escaping? You got a story to do.

This is what we call "guidelines" in the Pirate Code (so they mean Jack, and not Sparrow either) on how to escape:
Escape the furnace room
Perhaps find the real cake, before the Iranian guy does
Fight your way past Real SEAL Marines
Kill the guards around your ship
Liberate ship
Escape and laugh at me who's still stuck there
Or if you're nice you rescue me, but I won't count on it
Eat cake (if applicable)

Seriously, why would I want to prevent you from escaping? You got a story to do.
You and I don't really have that good of history in regards when our stories interacted in the past. No offense


Escape and laugh at me who's still stuck there
Or if you're nice you rescue me, but I won't count on it

I'll leave that up to as a surprise, but more likely after being double crossed by SEAL SEAL, I would more than likely rescue you and your character.

Subscription post. I better actually contribute to the damn story soon.

Subscription post. I better actually contribute to the damn story soon.
You should, and save us from the endless arguments of "who has dibs on what". Pretty soon it would be the Mods that would have dibs on closing that thread! :run:

You should, and save us from the endless arguments of "who has dibs on what". Pretty soon it would be the Mods that would have dibs on closing that thread! :run:

Gonna hafta figure out how to get paint files on here. But I've got some ideas.

Use imageshack or Photobucket. Both are free and I have uploaded over 1500 images on my Photobucket

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/CivCube/intruding.jpg

Ah, it's teh original Creator. Here's a somewhat useful link: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=244426

To sum up:
- The Avatars under the Supreme Avatar Commander (kulade) are trying to take over the universe.
- CivGeneral and teh DYOSers are trying to stop his evil plans.
- plus a few hundred subplots, semi-subplots and quasi-subplots.

If you want to know what each of the posters is doing right now, here it is basically:

kulade- The SAC, he commands the avatars, and is currently at a location I don't know.
CivGeneral- In Space Battle with SAC's forces.
choxorn (me)- In Space Battle with SAC's forces, currently getting pwned by the fleet of Stylesrj's Avatars
e350tb- Dead, fight against avatars taken over by Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda from Fairly Oddparents. As for what they're doing, you'd have to ask e350tb because I really don't know.
Lord joakim- has recently joined Kulade, as for what he's doing, I don't know
Mythmonster- With CivGeneral.
Stylesrj- As usual, his plotline is impossible to follow. ;)
Symphony D.- Has recently appeared at Earth with his own fleet.
taillesskangaru- With CivGeneral.
Thorvald of Lym- With CivGeneral.

Plus, there's also been a few sporadic comics from gandhi, kill fire, Swedishguy, Stylesjl, and Perfection.

Hey ,my plot is that Chuck is planning on a big WMD and Richtofen has to stop him as I'm captured...

Not too hard to follow... right?

Symphony D.- Has recently appeared at Earth with his own fleet.
Technically just a ship now, and mostly supporting CivGeneral.

I've got two plot ideas sitting on the boiler. One for Bjørn, but I don't have time to set up the scene. One for me with CG, but I still don't have a working scanner. So I'm asking the council for ideas I could cartoon during the interim period, because right now, I have, literally, no practical inspiration.

Just make random jokes wherever you see fit. :)

I was thinking of drawing up something funny, but I can't do so for beans.

I will make a comic... soon... I can't leave Rocket to laugh like a maniac in front of an ICBM forever.

Wow, i get a "Did i post that?" feeling :p

Apparently the people over at the NES community have opened up their own Draw Your Own x. So we might have a bit of competition :o.

At the NESing place? gotta check it out.

No Bobby! Come BAAAACK!!!