It's not you I'm worried about, it's the people that keep throwing the word "Spartan" around especially when the number is more than I let alone II.

Yeah well we are casuals after all. What did you expect?

But.... Those things are the Crisis style suits and such, not those way oversized bulky crap <.<

Look at Gundams and Armored Core! XD

Yeah exactly! And Tau become more and more battletech crap rather than staying Tau >.<

Spartan-I's last I checked, were a very limited thing at, under 200 people in its arsenal, Johnson included. Had a good few screwups on it with mental instability and genetic fuckups (which is why Boren's Syndrome was invented to cover that up) - and, was too expensive to be considered worth it against Insurrectionists.
Hence, Spartan-II's are what everyone thinks about - and in their own right are actually terrifying, once you hand the MJOLNIR armour suits to one.
Which, again, is why it'd be best for if an Rp is to happen, we're plain marines or ODST's - and potentially fighting against Insurrectionists where it's very... 'Equal', I guess?
Against the Covenant, the humans did generally win, but that was quite useless when the space victories were given to the Covenant, who could then glass the planet in its entirety without even half a shit given.
And, Gaunt - I've RP'd for a while. I'm the one who's 'against' RPing Spartans or Space Marines and the like ^^; At least, from a 'general' standpoint. S-II's would end up being a giant snowflakey group (potentially), and the RP of it would be difficult from our point of view. It's not like RPing a human where "HAH! I got them " - but far more tactical and monotonous. Generally looking at it from Chief's perspective is a good way to see how they are, in a combat scenario.
Even out of combat they're very antisocial, sticking to each other for company.
S-III's would be far more 'familial' in nature, and sociable, but... Well, you'd be RPing literal child soldiers - teenagers with guns and practically near-guaranteed deaths of everyone in the Rp itself for a 'greater' purpose.

S-IV's, well... Yea. I just ignore that entirely. The way the new Halo shows them makes it feel very iffy: even so, they did say that they were by default shittier than the II's or III's in terms of training and such, if only because they're fully fledged adults, not children indoctrinated, trained & augmented from the ground up into supersoldiers.

In response to that, the whole bulky ones are sort of the Tau's response to Imperial Titans and Knights, and all that - along with their Soviet-style meatgrinder assaults. So making something much bigger, naturally, is going to be very damn sluggish in comparison to the smaller things. Not to mention they're not in favour of sending (theoretically) ten thousand Tau Firewarriors and Battle Suits into a fight, when they can bring it down to 200 with two or three of the larger mech suits as superheavy support units.
But, yes. They look goddamn ugly.

Major problem with your thought process is the timeline. The SPARTAN II program and MJOLNIR program haven't started yet. The SPARTAN I, code named ORION, program has no official unclassified start date but ended in the year 2506. SPARTAN II program doesn't officially start until September 23rd, 2517. Operation Trebuchet, which is the large scale operation about to commence happens almost three years after the events of the SPARTAN II program and it isn't until February 3rd, 2525 that the augmentation begins on the SPARTAN II subjects.

Operation Trebuchet has already been underway for a good five years already and hence, no SPARTAN II would ever be seen by UNSC soldiers. The original remnants of the SPARTAN I/ORION project are mitigated across the remaining special forces branches of the UNSCAF. Therefore, it is physically impossible to have a Spartan as a character especially since you have to fill out an E-29 form for your character implying that you have since forth been a retired military veteran or are fresh out of boot camp by the start. No ORION project member ever retired from the military, they were all KIA by the events of Halo 4 or promoted to the upper echelons of HIGHCOM.

Addressing the Europan Conflicts: Here's a sneak peak at the new revised Character Sheet. I'm rebuilding most of the sections from the ground up but I believe we can all agree that compared to the older one, this looks much cleaner and has all the areas a player needs to know in order to understand everything once it's filled out.

I'm not bothering with the timeline. My point is that, personally I see little ways to RP any of the Spartans aside from the IV's, where they're basically glorified marines now with fancy armour in how they're so populated.
-- Also, S-I's did go retiring, last I remembered, and even in some cases had kids (albeit, needing injections so that they don't get any defects & grow up normally)

My point was: generally, RPing a Spartan would be difficult, and as was said earlier, most people are "casuals" - or at least, from how I'm seeing it, not professional RPers (if that makes any s ense) - so getting into the mindset of the S-II's and III's would be hard, and the S-I's are extremely limited as is. So, RP would hvae to be regultaed to just plain normal joe's.

You have used your entire hashtag supply for the week and are out of hashtag credit. I'm afraid you will have to use actual sentences until 22/11/2016. This has been a public service announcement.

And as far as I know Spartans are found in groups of 300, no more, no less

Except that they died to the last man, so you find them in groups of 300 corpses. They were also all male so bye bye gender appeasement.

You basically threw your commentary out the window the minute you stated you weren't taking the timeline into account when as the person who would host it and stating a very specific time period what would and would not be allowed. Reading comprehension people. I get that you're trying to prove a point over Spartans but the truth of the matter is that a ruling was already made on it so quit pushing it. This was why as one of the initial requirements for joining was that you had to understand the backstory to the Halo timeline at that point and time in addition to filling out the E-29 Enlistment form. Only one person ever did that (you know who you are, special snowflake you).

@Maleth Take a look at the new Character Manifest and let me know if it answers more of your questions from last time. I'm trying to make it so everything is readily available on one page for a player and I know you were one of the few who was having the most problems easily getting your stats together.