Imperium Offtopicum Organisational & Discussion Thread

[Sonereal]

Imperium Offtopicum
Organisational & Discussion Thread​

Imperium Offtopicum is often defined as "an empire-building game" that spawned from the Altered Maps threads. It has had many, many variations, but generally speaking: you create or take over a nation of your choice, you expand a little at a time, you can engage in war and diplomacy and conquer the world, and the overall goal is fun.

Links

• IOT Developmental Thread

In Progress

These games have started. They may still be accepting new players.

• Imperium Offtopicum XIV - RobertCant
• New Earth IOT - Kinkaz
• SonRisk V: Electric Boogaloo II: Colon Cancer: The IOT - Sonereal
• Weltpolitik and Realpolitik - SonicTH

On Hiatus

These games are currently on hold.

• Imperium Offtopicum: The Great Abyss - Tyo
• These Divided States - Sonereal

In Development

These games are currently still in development. They are currently listed in no particular order, nor are guaranteed to actually come out of development.

• Iron Curtain - RedSpy
• Thy Kingdom Come - Mechaerik
• Rebuild of Revolution - Sonereal
• Islands Under the Tropican Sun - Sonereal

The Graveyard of Empires - Past Games

Spoiler :

Eight Generation

Under Development



Seventh Generation
IOT saw some very large, relatively long-lived, very ambitious games, subforum gains Birdjaguar as moderator.

Spoiler :

• IOT: Chiron - Robert Can't
• MadIOT - madtemplar0
• RSRisk - Red Spy
• Land Ho! Redux - Linkman226
• IOTX: And the Walls Come Tumbling Downhttp://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=464490 - Sonereal
• Avatar: The Middle Kingdom (Continuation) - Farsight, Sonereal
• Imperia Mediterranea - SonicTH
• IOT The Game - Radio Noer
• Imperium Offtopicum IX - Taniciusfox
• The Final Countdown - Mosher
• SonRisk3 - Sonereal
• The Multipolar World - Taniciusfox
• Fight and Be Right! – Sonereal
• The Second American Revolution Redux - Tyo
• KIOT I - Kinich-Ahau
• Elder Scrolls: Mad World - Civ'ed
• Imperium Economicum - CivOasis
• Dawn of Colonisation - Sonereal
• Imperium Offtopicum IV: The Aftermath - Thorvald of Lym
• Space Seed - Tambien
• Tiberian Dawn - Sonereal
• Iron and Blood 3: Rapidfire - kiwitt
• Iron and Blood 2 - taillesskangaru
• Multipolarity Rearmed - Thorvald of Lym
• Valkyrie - NedimNapoleon
• Mosaic Earth II - Farsight.
• ChristosIOT - christos

Sixth Generation
IOT moved to a new subforum, great proliferation of games mostly taking inspiration from Fifth Generation games, though most are short-lived, IOT develops as a social community.
Memorable games: YoshIOT, Sons of Mars III, MIOT, Peshawar Lancers, SonRISK, Fiat Lux, Second American Revolution

Spoiler :

• The Coming Storm - Tyo
• AAIOT - Consonants Under Fire - DoubleAA
• Lonely Humans - arya126
• ZombIOT - MoreEpicThanYou
• YoshIOT - Yoshiegg
• DEFCON Red - Lighthearter
• Mosaic Earth - Farsight
• Imperium Offtopicum VIII: A New Dawn - Lighthearter
• Into the Fire - CivOasis
• Mobius: Total Chaos - TaniciusFox
• Inglacialis Terra - NedimNapoleon
• Wreckage at Washington - Tambien
• The Caribbean - CivOasis
• Here and Now - CivOasis
• Home Front - Sonereal
• The Last War - Lighthearter
• Back To Basics - west india man
• 1000 AD - christos200
• The Golden Bull - Tyo
• Columbus' Voyage - MoreEpicThanYou
• Sons of Mars III - Taniciusfox
• Electric Boogaloo - Sonereal
• MIOT (RIP) - Robert Can't
• Black Ice - No GM (started by CivOasis)
• Iron and Blood Redux - BSmith
• Fiat Lux - Sonereal
• The Trade Empires - Civ'ed
• Peshawar Lancers II - Farsight
• Villages - christos200
• Second American Revolution - Tyo
• Two Minutes To Midnight - mechearik
• Epic IOT - The War to End them all - MoreEpicThanYou
• MosIOT - Mosher
• Dawn of Man - CivOasis
• The Spirit of Man - Robert Can't
• The Peshawar Lancers - Farsight
• RIOT Redux Beta - Sonereal
• The Flood - Civ'ed
• Asian Dynastys - christos200
• SonRISK - Sonereal, Double A

Fifth Generation
IOT gains momentum, longer-lasting games, games vary greatly in style and complexity, from Mini-IOTs to Iron and Blood. Games dominated by Sonereal and Taniciusfox, while some formerly active players from the 1st-4th generations disappeared from the scene.
Memorable games: IOTVII, Mini-IOT Eastern Asia, SonIOT, Land Ho!, Imperium Mobiana, Red Alert IOT, Iron and Blood, sons of Mars II

Spoiler :

• Imperium Offtopicum VII – NedimNapoleon
• NCIOT Caveman to Cosmos - nightcreature
• IOT - Alternate Universe - Seron
• RIOT 2 - Sonereal
• LHIOT2 - The Storm of God - Lighthearter
• Mini-IOT: Eastern Asia - Tambien
• Mini-IOT: Terranova - Tambien
• SonIOT I: For All the Marbles - Sonereal
• Land Ho! - Linkman226
• NinjaIOT: A New Age - NinjaCow64
• Sengoku - Civ'ed
• Tiberian Sky - taillesskangaru
• SonIOTII - XX Century – Sonereal
• LHIOT1 - Novus Ordo Seclorum: Rise of Legends - Lighthearter
• Imperium Universalis - Taniciusfox
• Nations of the Old Republic (Star Wars IOT) - arya126
• Simple IOT - mythmonster2
• Iron and Blood - Taillesskangaru, kiwitt
• Fallout: A Preview IOT - Thorvald of Lym
• Imperium Mobiana - Taniciusfox
• Red Alert IOT - Sonereal
• IOT World of Trade - NedimNapoleon
• Imperium Offtopicum: Rise of Euro-Patriotism - Civ'ed
• Sons of Mars II - Taniciusfox
• Rise and Fall of Empires - Lighthearter
• Parrot Wars - Tambien
• Cold War II - Sonereal

Fourth Generation IOT
Increasing nostalgia for Classic IOT, large increase in variety, influx of posters from Stories and Tales, Sonereal is dominant poster.
Memorable games: IOTC, RIOT, IOTVI

Spoiler :

• "IOT map game test thing" - Double A
• Map test thingy 2 - ilduce349
• Imperium Offtopicum Cold War (IOTCW) - Lighthearter
• Viva La Tropico - NedimNapoleon
• Imperium Offtopicum Colonialism (IOTC) - MaxaTheGreat
• Revolution Imperium Offtopicum (RIOT) II - Sonereal
• Revolution Imperium Offtopicum - Sonereal
• Revolution IOT History Thread - Sonereal
• The Enlightenment - Lighthearter
• IOT Resources War - NedimNapoleon
• Imperium Offtopicum 6C - Toteone
• Homefront II: Lords of War - Sonereal
• Imperium Offtopicum VI Continued - ZeletDude
• Imperium Offtopicum VI: Rise of the Lost - taillesskangaru

Third Generation IOT
IOT Developmental Thread is made, addition of more game concepts such as economy, different combat systems, many short-lived spin-offs.
Memorable games: IOTII, Ab Antiquo, Mini-IOT Cradle of Civilization

Spoiler :

• IOT Trade Wars - Duke Blackstone
• The Last Prophecy - Lightheater
• Religions: the New Prophets - NedimNapoleon
• Ilduces Imperium Offtopicum Advanced Beta - Ilduce349
• AbIOT: Asetii Palorius - Abaddon
• Home Front: The American Wars - Lighthearter
• Ideology Wars - NedimNapoleon
• The Zombies Are Rising! - Domination3000
• Ab Antiquo - taillesskangaru
• Ilduce IOT Beta - Ilduce349
• Knights of Honor - NedimNapoleon
• Mini-IOT: Cradle of Civilization - civplayah
• Empires of the Middle Ages - Domination3000
• History Rewritten - ilduce349
• Imperium Offtopicum V - Second Thread - Joecoolyo, civplayah, CivGeneral, taillesskangaru, Owen Glyndwr
• Imperium Offtopicum V - Joecoolyo, civplayah, CivGeneral, taillesskangaru, Owen Glyndwr
• Imperium Offtopicum II: Chronological Order Is For Chumps! - Taniciusfox

Second Generation (Classic IOT)
Early experimentation with rules and game mechanics, early spin-offs

Spoiler :

• Imperium Offtopicum IV: Third's the Charm? - Thorvald of Lym
• Europe's Burning: Ye Olde Imperium Offtopicum - e350tb
• Colonization: They Came From Afar - Lighthearter
• IOT Native American Edition - Bobbtjoe
• Star Wars: Galactic Empires - Lighthearter

First Generation (Classic IOT)
Free-for-all games with little rules or structure

Spoiler :

• Imperial Offtopicum 3: the quest for Imperium Offtopicum 2 - Mad Man
• Imperium Offtopicum - Taniciusfox
• OT Poster Empires - Lil Post count
• Altered Maps VI: Xorda Gene Bombs.. going from Earth to Mobius

 

[Sonereal]

Org thread put under new management. Will fill out the graveyard over the next few days weeks.

 

[NinjaCow64]

Tails don't want the job no more? Good luck with the thread mate.

 

[Sonereal]

Tails don't want the job no more? Good luck with the thread mate.

He hasn't wanted the job for months. Nedim was running the successor thread for a while, but it got merged into the old one for some reason.

 

[NinjaCow64]

Maybe you could get Bird to merge the threads, but put this post at the front and expunge Tail's one. Just a thought.

 

[Sonereal]

Maybe you could get Bird to merge the threads, but put this post at the front and expunge Tail's one. Just a thought.

Dunno how these things work. I thought the merge placed things chronologically.

Or could just unsticky his aand sticky this one.