Motivation?

[Xion]

What motivates you to do this? What motivated you in the past to Sim-Battle? I've a craving to be the best. Though I'm not there anymore (Thank you, Leviathan), I use to be top ranked. I can thank Shin-Ra for that. Shin-Ra was the biggest motivation. With Simmers like Tseng and Reno, I refused to be the weakest link of the company and now I'm on the same level as the people I looked up to, probably exceeded some. Another thing about Shin-Ra motivating me was myself becoming a Turk. Basically all the Turks Sim-Battled and I barely started to RP. I usually found myself sitting in my chair for and hour or so typing up a reply for the RP that Shin-Ra had and when I look back and remember, those posts that I made were nothing compared to what I can do now. I like proving to everyone how good I am, so a showcase or a show is what I want to give and I guess I'm motivated to do so.

Motivation drives the art of RPing and Sim-Battling. It has been doing so for years now. Now to back to my first question; What motivates you to do this?

[Sean the Wicked]

Heh, same thing. I want to be the best. I've always loved writing, so I was a natural when I started Sim Battling, but there were so many people that were better than me, and I continued fighting them over and over, despite as many times as I lost, I kept fighting because I looked up to most of them and slowly adapted a lot of their style. Though it's now lost within the depths of my own talent, it surfaces now and again as a bit of nostalgia that keeps me going, that reminds me why I'm battling.

My hero is named Steve, Emperor Freiza, whatever you'd like to call him. He was the greatest, and when I started simming, we were arch rivals. As you can tell by his name, he used the character Freiza from DBZ and being a Sayian, it was only a matter of time before we fought. He had 65 wins and 2 loses when I fought him; the battle lasted nine posts. Steve had five, I had four, and during the time I wasn't being thoroughly dominated, I was fighting at the best of my ability to impress him. I wish I could battle him one more time, but I'll probably never see him again. Sadly...

My true motivation lies in what I had just said. I want to impress Freiza, he was my Sim Battling hero, and I'd battle whomever it takes for him to give me the slightest praise for my work.

[Xion]

I see. For a lot of simmers, the key to motivation was other people.

[TrickyPockets]

Yes, mostly. I started sim-battling because I wanted to be able to help out the clan Wolves of Transylvania. I just barely got started, though, with that. I didn't really get started until I started practicing more seriously with my friend Mr. GumDrops and such on the first Anfiniti. When TITAN challenged my clan, it just lit me up. I wasn't going to lose, and I guess part of the way everyone in that clan (hehe, Abel and Tseng included) trotted around proclaiming themselves as supreme just made me want to beat them. I wasn't going to let anyone lord over me without them actually giving me a chance. With the battles in that war, my skill grew enormously, as I was forced to make very thought out moves, and stretch the limits of my writing.

The same motivation then motivated me pretty much throughout my career from then on. Shin-Ra became the Titan Resistance's enemy, and I decided that I would be the Resistance, no matter who was in my clan. Just trying to beat them kept me motivated for quite a while.

Also, though, for me a huge motivation is just seeing my writing when I'm done. There is nothing like seeing a 12 paragraph post that you spent hours on, and thinking, "I wrote that."

[Glowing Douchebag]

I also was motivated by some people to get into sim battling. Many people of the like. I started my days with just the normal role playing, RPGC was the first place where I delved into a large RP story that I created with my character Zenthiroth. From the past, I had quick battles in AOL chatrooms. Before then, i wrote short stories, not only was it books and other people who inspired me to battle, but it was also games, like the RPGS. My first character ever, both writting, creativity, and over all was Shinobi. After playing a few of the games on the Genesis, I just wanted to make character profiles, and this was back when I was like 7 years old. Barely knew how to write, but my imagination was kicked into overdrive at the time.

I am fighting daily to keep my imgination alive, I like to thank that the most than anything else.

[Onyx]

I was motivated by someone (*cough cough* ^^^) to Sim-Battle after I had a run-in with Shin-Ra. Ever since, I've just wanted to improve and climb up to the top. I'm definitely not there yet, though.

Also, after I made my old clan, I wanted it to become one of the best, like Shin-Ra. I failed, but I learned a lot in that failure. I looked up to some of the elite in Shin-Ra (*cough cough* ^^^), and therefore saw many good techniques.

[MonkeyShroom]

Tseng was actually a main motivator for me to get into Sim-Battling. When I was at RPGP I saw it and wondered what it was. I made a profile and had a first fight which, much as I hate to say, sucked. Then the second match I had was against Tseng, which made it really fun to do. Then again, the enjoyment I get from sim-battling motivates me to do it more.

[Black]

Right now, Killiak/Raz is my motivation. *shakes fist* Soon I will trump you all! *presses play on maniacal laugh track*

[Delve]

Shin-ra was a dissappointment for me, nothing got done in time and I doubt it's coming back and actually be active. I like sim-battling because it's like roleplaying with...fighting in one. What motivates me? My love for rp! n.n

[Xion]

Well, you basically came during the downfall of Shin-Ra which is an inevitable. I believe if you came a bit earlier into Shin-Ra it would've been far from a disappointment. Just thought I'd throw that in. ;]

[Zaben]

Shin-Ra's downfall was a thing of time after that incident on version four, I think. It rose up again later around the time U-TIC was formed, but now's it's been shattered again and I don't see it recovering. Maybe someday it'll be resurrected, but it'll be a new generation; ours is long dead.


To get back on topic, my main motivation was to improve my writing abilities. I was taught a bit by Steve (Frieza), and Kale and myself had a friendly rivalry going on, and I suppose the two of those helped me improve my technique, amongst other things. Though I've long ago quit simming in exchange for story-writing, since simming could teach me only so much, and I needed full control over the world rather than control of only one side to further improve.

[Reno]

I was motivated to RP by Shin-Ra, and by Shin-Ra, I mean the company that Wolfgang led back in 2002, I had RPed before that but never as "seriously". I learnt alot of things from J2K/Rude. Now that I'm busy with school, I don't have much time to RP, and the freetime I have is usually taken up by social life, but seeing as this is the last week of school for this term, I believe I may have more time to fuck around.