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How would everyone feel if you made a character who was famous?

Not like famous IRL, like Antonio Brown,

But a football (American Football) player who is at the level of Antonio Brown yet fictional?

 

And maybe even currently still playing?

 

To expand; my character Luke played for Nottingham Forest who haven't been in the premier league since 1993 (that's why I picked them), and I want to reignite his late career, maybe playing a season or two. But to make it realistic, he'd have to play for a team like LA Galaxy meaning he would be famous within the whole football world. People who don't watch football wouldn't necessarily know him.

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I'm definitely of the opinion that people can do this, and do it well provided they keep in mind how isolating and restricting this RP would be.  With that kind of fame comes a lot of negatives to consider that would make RPing regularly in this setting and community difficult depending on the character's profession, level of fame/infamy, social standing.    Easier to accomplish might be more of a 'local famous.'  News anchors, college athletes, club/business promoters.  

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10 minutes ago, Sbe said:

I'm definitely of the opinion that people can do this, and do it well provided they keep in mind how isolating and restricting this RP would be.  With that kind of fame comes a lot of negatives to consider that would make RPing regularly in this setting and community difficult depending on the character's profession, level of fame/infamy, social standing.    Easier to accomplish might be more of a 'local famous.'  News anchors, college athletes, club/business promoters.  

I get that.

I mean when we're talking footballers ect, it's different, for example Wayne Rooney, world wide legend, one of the best of all time - he goes to local casino's and clubs in Liverpool all the time, but it's normal because he's famous, but people respect his space.

 

I know a rapper IRL, his name is Dave, his album is currently number one in the UK, and he goes to house parties in my area litteraly all the time.


I feel like if you're a hollywood superstar, it's different, but with sports and rap ect. your character defines the way you're famous, wether you're a normal person, or you're absorbed by it, ect. 

My character wouldn't be a CR4 level of famous, but he'd be something like Sanchez, Mahrez, ect. and as the character progresses, he'll end up somewhere like Zidane ect.

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Good luck with that. Being an entertainer or a rapper or even a show host, something like this would be easier to RP. What you're trying to do is being a footballer, that's literally the hardest type of celeb you can be. You need a plan, a lot of connections and you also need to play football somehow, maybe share pics on FB of training etc. If you think you can do it I'm all for it but it's not gonna be easy. 

 

Or if you play fifa you could probably do something like this 

 

 

 

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@ICE I just wanted to say, if you do intend to roleplay a soccer/football player. You'll have to drastically change the direction of your character. I was just browsing your screenshots, and the first thing I saw was you moving cocaine, and trying to sell guns. I've also heard you talk about murdering people among other things. You gotta remember, you're roleplaying a football player not a hardened career criminal.

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17 minutes ago, Benny Black said:

@ICE I just wanted to say, if you do intend to roleplay a soccer/football player. You'll have to drastically change the direction of your character. I was just browsing your screenshots, and the first thing I saw was you moving cocaine, and trying to sell guns. I've also heard you talk about murdering people among other things. You gotta remember, you're roleplaying a football player not a hardened career criminal.

This.

To be fair, you should probably namechange in this case. 

As for the general idea of being famous though, I think you could start off by roleplaying a local celebrity from another area/city/state. This way you'll find it quite interesting to build your name through IC means. Trust me, spawning being rich/famous/etc is quite boring. It's all about development.

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2 hours ago, Benny Black said:

@ICE I just wanted to say, if you do intend to roleplay a soccer/football player. You'll have to drastically change the direction of your character. I was just browsing your screenshots, and the first thing I saw was you moving cocaine, and trying to sell guns. I've also heard you talk about murdering people among other things. You gotta remember, you're roleplaying a football player not a hardened career criminal.

I already have changed the direction, my character never has been a hardened criminal. Selling cocaine doesn't make you a hardened criminal. Also saying I'd murder someone is a figure of speech. Regardless I'll probably change his name.

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Why not, but remember that you will need to put 10 times more effort in your RP to portray the celebrity. Honestly I know only couple of ppl here who can take such marathon without burning out. It is personal energy and time consuming thing. Also that means no script jobs for you and no shallow criminal activity.

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32 minutes ago, Gerda said:

Why not, but remember that you will need to put 10 times more effort in your RP to portray the celebrity. Honestly I know only couple of ppl here who can take such marathon without burning out. It is personal energy and time consuming thing. Also that means no script jobs for you and no shallow criminal activity.

The criminal part of my character died out with the spark of ambition.

I've got plans to be able to make an income whilst also keeping up the celebrity lifestyle.

 

He wouldn't be an A list celebrity by any means, right now if I asked a stranger, what footballers do you know, I'd hear;

- Messi

- Ronaldo

- Zidane

- Beckham

- Nueur 

ect.

 

My character would be someone like Sami Khedira, he's played in world cups, he's a very good player, but not one of the greats. If you didn't know football you probably wouldn't notice him on the streets.

However he's played for Real Madrid, Stuggart, Jueventus - all very good teams.

 

I don't want to make my character OP, and extremely famous, but he would be a celebrity within the sporting world, and people who watch football here and there would hear his name.

 

When it comes to teams, I'm thinking about it; either Atlanta Rapids, LAFC, or LA Galaxy.

However, for the sake of keeping it lore friendly, LAFC would be LSFC (same IRL players though), and LA galaxy would be LS Galaxy.

The teams would carry the same weight as they do IRL, and the longer I play, the more chance I have of transferring out of the country.

However, I would be able to RP this fine - for example, if I played for Arsenal, I would not be as active on Luke Kray from September until May, because the season tends to end in May, but between fixtures I could come back to LS as it is my main residence.

 

 

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