"Don't Cry for me Argentina!"

[Double A]

Tbh endless legend looks like the poor man's age of wonder iii, though I've only actually played the former (it felt overly long and grindy)

Maybe I just suck at tile based strategy games though

 

[gay_Aleks]

yang > mittermeyer btw tbh fam

 

[Ailedhoo]

Tolni is a probe team member from the Human Hive! Alert security before he brainwashes the colony!

 

[gay_Aleks]

what

 

[Ailedhoo]

Do not pretend otherwise! You are a agent of Chairman Sheng-ji Yang!

 

[gay_Aleks]

my loyalty lies only with Yang Wenli tho

 

[Tani Coyote]

There should be more IOTs where furries are woven into the canon and not just isolated in one nation-state. I miss IOT IV: A. :v

 

[Tani Coyote]

That thing I'm doing where I keep revisiting older games to relive the memories? IOT IV:A and Aftermath were the first ones, now I'm doing Revolution IOT. This time, I made a little map based on the game's epilogue!

Spoiler :

I purposely avoiding too much creative license. I actually really enjoyed this game and a part of me would like to do a fanmade sequel to it someday.

So, what’s documented here?

In Europe, nothing major. I just credited the BRIG powers (that’s me!) with their claims on the final turn. My end goal was to colonize most of Eastern Europe and later apportion it into independent states. Scotland has been given a different shade to account for the revolt there.

In the Americas, again, nothing major, based on the epilogue. Do note that the USA (Tyo) no longer has its capital marker.

In Africa, status quo antebellum, based on the “white peace” discussion. However, the USA’s capital is now Ethiopia’s to account for the USA becoming the real colony of the two.

Asia is, unsurprisingly, where the action is. Rome (WIM) has ceded a little territory to its enemies, but the real dealbreaker is the independence of Iran and the Indian princely states, which has devoured a huge amount of its territory. As unsightly as Roman Central Asia is, I didn’t see anything indicating that had broken away, so I let it be. Since this was just for fun, I didn’t really base the princely state borders off anything; I just carved a few out of Roman India. Russia (Red) and FRC (Kinich) have made slight territorial gains at Rome's expense.

Beyond that, you’ll notice the Inner Dominion of China (Ailedhoo) has an independent state in the southeast! That’s actually the central government of the IDC, with the darker purple being the claimed but effectively locally independent states, based on the language of the epilogue. I would have broken China up into several smaller polities, but I didn’t want to individually color every province, plus I didn’t want to go too far beyond the epilogue’s language.

Oceania just has the FRCN having annexed Borneo yet again, based on the epilogue.

And that’s that. The map doesn’t look too different, but all the subtle details are there. It was a fun game to play it all, and one day I’d like to see what the post-war world would have looked like.

 

[Double A]

yang > mittermeyer btw tbh fam

someone sounds bittermeyer

There should be more IOTs where furries are woven into the canon and not just isolated in one nation-state. I miss IOT IV: A. :v

Most fantasy settings have each race congregate with their kin, not that I'm saying it's better that way (it's not).

 

[Omega124]

Most fantasy settings have each race congregate with their kin, not that I'm saying it's better that way (it's not).

Sounds like an allegory for something

 

[Ailedhoo]

Remember: what is dead may never die but rise again, stronger and harder!

Death is the destiny of all but undeath is the breaker of destiny!

 

[Omega124]

This is a really cool allegorical story about the nature of elections. I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here on the intended message, but still, it was fun

 

[JohannaK]

Well, you probably read it differently than I do. While I agree on principle thst people shoild vote their candidate and not the lesser evil, this just isnt possible with the American system. Which brings me to the second point: armed insurrection is not the way to change how you elect people.

 

[NinjaCow64]

This is a really cool allegorical story about the nature of elections. I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here on the intended message, but still, it was fun

You really, really aren't. While I respect your stance that both Clinton and Trump are both "as bad as each other", or at least that they are on similar levels of badness that you can't bring yourself to vote for either of them, I vehemently disagree with it. I also disagree with the idea that voting for the lesser evil is a bad thing, that is literally the point of democracies - to elect a candidate that is the least worst for the majority of the country. I will admit that America's system is completely broken, but I digress. I also think that a lot less people (both inside and outside IOT) agree with your stance than you think.

However, you posting this has made me legitimately concerned. There's a large portion of this work dedicated to how the protagonists are planning to kill both of the "Lesser Evil", these "Lesser Evils" are obviously allegories for Clinton, Trump and pretty much every mainstream political candidate. This is presented as a 100% positive thing, not only the necessary choice but the moral choice. While this might be some political joke that I didn't get, it really doesn't feel like that. Also death of the author, it doesn't really matter his intent, what matters more is that it seems like you are advocating for the assassination of political candidates. I can't respect this opinion. It's honestly really scary that you are posting things like this, I fear for your well-being if you start to embrace an ideology like that.

Additionally this story is written really badly. This story reads like slightly more coherent version of Timecube, it's really hard to follow and takes forever to get to the point. We don't need ten paragraphs of New Omelas' geopolitical standings and half-arsed demonic biology. Frankly some parts of this story is completely insulting to the average voter, like the part where everyone drank the magical forget water except the SUPER GENIUS ABSTAINERS who are smarter than everyone else. Also I am even more hurt by this as it blatantly rips off one of my favourite authors (Ursula K. Le Guin) and one of my favourite short stories (Those Who Walk Away From Omelas) and makes a complete mockery of her work.

In short Megan I still love you but this work is really bad.

 

[gay_Aleks]

This also happened, despite the unified forces of nature and man.

Go figure.

 

[inthesomeday]

Did they remove social groups how do I make a social group

Do I just have to have a group PM

 

[gay_Aleks]

SGs are gone forever, but I think Conversations may work the same way, as essentially they serve as private threads of sorts. Only trouble is that the limit is 5 people, but hey, who's gonna make an alliance this big anyway.

 

[NinjaCow64]

By the power of Thunderfall, I have the power!

 

[Civ'ed]

first tyo now nc
IOT really has gone to the dogs

 

[Tani Coyote]

I assume he means his new Supporter tag.

I too, will one day work up the courage to buy the $50 value deal.