Players, stories, orders, countries, NPCs, updates, map...
Players - No limit. Anybody can join. If 'ye flame other people in this thread the Church of Latterday Ghiblish will have your head, I personally guarantee that.
Stories - I encourage you to write them, you might not get a visible (ie. Mentioned in the update) kind of bonus for it. But do realize that writing good stories will not go unnoticed by me. Hey, it is a Never Ending Story, afterall...
Orders - Only in English, no matter how better your orders would be if written in any Finno-Ugric (Or Ugro-Finnic
) language. Make them as clear as possible, I don't want to have to guess what you meant by your orders... Oh, and make them in a list with the addition of Diplomatic deals that you have signed. Do not constantly resend orders if you forgot something. Finland is in the GMT +2 timezone. Send them ASAP, as it will make my work a lot easier.
Countries - Pick one out of the Stats list or start a rebellion.
NPC Nations - I will manage them. Although maybe not as fearsome as PC nations are, they will still fight back, don't expect them to die on a whimper.
Updates - I will want to update regularly, however that will not be possible if you people will not send orders. Send orders as soon as it is possible for you. Once I get majority of all orders I will update.
Map - I'll be using the map from my old NES, so credits for it are to be found in the old thread. Thanks to das for adding the economy/industrial centers into the map.
Government
Your form of government. You are free to change your government, and explain it how ever do you want, but that can piss off followers of the previous governments, and might lead to nation-wide riots. Or a civil war, depending on what mood I am in. In other words - change governments at your own risk.
Technology Level
Will use the age system. It is the same as in other NES'es of other people, ofcourse the ages are not identical. This begins in the Early Industrial Age (save for some Asian and African nations which are in the Enlightenment age). Once someone reaches Enlightenment education, (s)he becomes able to randomly to get the next age at any following turn. When he does, (s)he loses two education levels. However, note that there has to be a decade - AT LEAST - of distance between age growth.
Early Industrial Age: Cavalry, Flintlock rifles, horse drawn artillery, primitive steam engines, ships of the line, etc. etc.
Middle Industrial Age: Breech loading rifles, breech loading artillery, early steam trains, early ironclads, etc etc.
Late Industrial Age:trenches, cavalry, ironclads, early machine guns, early automatic rifles, arctic explorers, etc, etc. And whatever you people think off by then.
Military
Military, for now, consists of the Army and the Navy. These will be number-based as it gives more versatility. These will be represented in divisions, ships and air wings respectively. What will you have in it? Anything that is allowed by your tech. level! Infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers - you name it. Each “stat-growth” will increase any part of military by 5, training is done in the ratio of 20 divisions per 1 eco point.
Army & Fleet Tactics and Strategies: Highly adviced, without some central plan or tactic to follow, your troops lives' will most likely be wasted for very little gain. Suprise me.
Logistics: No need to pay eco points for it in this NES, but you can always pay the eco points to give them extra supplies which will come in handy if the supply lines are cut.
Mercenaries (AKA: The Black Army): If you pay an economy level, you will get 10 divisions of well-trained fighting men. They will be separated from your own battalions in the stats, and will leave after two turns, unless you pay them another economy level. Yes, they are expensive, but they are quite worth the price. Btw, you can also hire “mercenary” ships that can also act as privateers.
Conscripts - You can, as a last measure, conscript your population, 30 conscript divisions per turn. However these will be poorly trained and armed and if the situation is desperate enough, the conscripts may simply surrender at the first sight of the enemy (Depends heavily in Confidence, Culture and other details). Also, you are not always guaranteed to get the 30 divisions.
UUs - One per nation, but can be changed at any point (though the newly-“demoted” UU units will not be happy). I will keep a list of them, somewhere. Could be land, sea, or air. They will be separated from other divisions/ships in the stats. They are grown as normal units. Remember to keep them realistic.
Training - it is done in levels. There are separate training stats for army and navy, and it is grown with eco. points. UU is assumed to be one level higher then the average training level for its branch, conscripts - one level lower. If your army grows too quickly, there will be a chance of training level lowering. Training of 20 divisions coasts 1 eco point.
None - Rabble - Semi-Rabble - Tolerable - Normal - Better - Good - Very Good - Professional - Elite
Economy
Economy levels still play the vital role. However, the amount of economy points that you have differs from level to level (if you get a negative amount of them, I will decrease a random stat per negative point); it is also influenced by random events and by economic centers (cities that are either trade centers, industrial centers or capitals of agriculturally-rich provinces); each of the latter provides one eco. point per turn to whoever holds it at the time (i.e. if it is on occupied territory, the occupier receives the eco. point). To grow economy (i.e. to advance from one level to another), you have to a) not spend your eco. points, apart from those received from eco. centers, on anything else that turn and b) to point out what exactly are you going to do to grow it (note that eco. growth might not always be succesful, depending on what you do and how things fold out).
Eco. points could (and should) be spent on growing military, miscellanous stats (see below), logistical support for the military and on continuing projects. Speaking of the latter, you could also invest a whole eco. level into a project to speed it up by two turns.
Eco. points cannot be banked.
Eco. levels still could be "sacrificed", i.e. converted into 6 eco. points each. Only one eco. level can be sacrificed per turn.
Creation of economic centers also requires the investment of at least one eco. point into some specific development programs, most of the times anyway.
Eco. levels:
Depression (-2)-Bankrupt (-1)-Recession (-1)-Very Poor (0)-Poor (0)-Normal (+1)-Good Enough (+2)-Rich (+2)-Very Rich (+3)-Richest (+3)-Economic Powerhouse (+4)-Monopoly (+5)
Education
This is just how your people are... educated, I guess. Obvious enough. With a good education, you have better chances of receiving a “miraculous invention”. It also affects just how advanced are your weapons, and thus the success of your army in a battlefield.
Once someone reaches Enlightenment education, he becomes able to randomly to get the next age at any following turn. When he does, he loses two education levels. However, note that there has to be a decade - AT LEAST - of distance between age growth.
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Culture
This is how culturally strong, patriotic and unified your nation is. A nation with a strong culture is less likely to fall into a civil war, and it’s people would resist most invaders and otherwise help their government. This also influences army morale. A weak culture is unlikely to be as resistant to outside threats, there are often rebellions and defections. The higher your culture is, the higher are the chances of assimilating less militant minorities.
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Confidence
People can be fiercely unified and patriotic, but they will not necessarily like their ruler - in fact, a strongly cultured nation with little confidence in its leaders can, in its cultural unity, lynch the rulers and fire their remains from cannons. Into the huge pot filled with boiled sharks. Not that the rulers will care by then... You can grow confidence by economy (propaganda), but wouldn’t it be easier to write a speech or persuade the people that you are the leader they need?
Lynching-Hateful-Resentful-Barely Tolerating-Tolerating-Respecting-Admiring-Loving-Nation Personified
Projects
I'll be going by the old rule of projects taking turns to complete, and that you can speed up the project by a turn by losing one economy level in return for it. This is to prevent projects being completed faster by superpowers then by anyone else. I know it has it's downsides, but I like it better this way.
As always you tell me what it does, and I'll tell you how long it takes and if it's even possible. Be creative, along the lines of making the Netherlands an island separate of Europe.
Complaining to the Mod
"If you flame other posters you will get a nasty whacking..."
"If you disrespect my updates, I will feed you to a Kraken..."
Complaining to me about mistakes I've made during updates is fine, just as long as it's not something really minor like a typo...
