IOT Developmental Thread
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Wonderful! Time For a celebration! CHEESE!!! For everyone!
Actually, scratch that. No cheese for anyone.
Graceheart the Leopard
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How's progress for Iron and Blood 2?
"What we call Progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
- Havelock Ellis
Anyway, I've taken over from kiwitt as GM, introduced some changes to the Beta rules which help from my little circle of collaborators which I'm sure you'll love, and currently working on a new map. We had a request from Robert Can't to delay the launch until he gets back, so that's what I'll do.
hoplitejoe
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A new map?
More or less provinces?
More or less provinces?
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
Speaking of that, still awaiting on that from another guy who suggested a Elder Scrolls IOT.
Civ'ed
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hey, hey, calm down! Believe it or not I have a life!
Currently stuck on god bonuses...
so dynasties:
You have a dynasty! The dynasties of the TES canon are the Septims and Medes. (Septims = 3E, Medes = 4E)
What you do with anyone in this dynasty is up to you. Just remember your empire will fall apart if the dynasty dies out.
Which brings me on to timeflow:
The IOT Starts in Last Seed, 5E1 - Ulfric Stormcloak won the war 3 centuries ago, and Morrowind became independent once more shortly after. The Illiac Bay broke a century ago. The game will proceed in Months - The Elder Scrolls Calendar has 12 months but no leap years.
Months are:
Morning Star
Sun's Dawn
First Seed
Rain's Hand
Second Seed
Midyear
Sun's Height
Last Seed - game starts here
Hearthfire
Frostfall
Sun's Dusk
Evening Star
Last seed is always the month the game starts in - the 27th of Last Seed to be precise. which is why the game starts in that month.
A new Year is every twelve turns - depending on where you are weather can effect combat - choose wisely! (if it's a blizzard... most soldiers are dead before the battle starts.)
Magicks and other Economies
There are three currencies in this game - Septims, Magicka and Dragon Souls. Septims are used to train armies and take over territory and you get a regular deposit every month. Magicka is used to train mages, expand the mages guild, train priests so you can use your Divine Daedric Tribunal power. Magicka is used to research the various Shouts, which takes time depending on expenditure, and comes in larger amounts than Septims - every third month however. Spend wisely.
Dragon Souls are the things you need to speed up the unlocking of the Thu'um, the Voice, for mages and soldiers. These appear at random, since you need to have a dragon in your territory first. You then send an army after it, and next turn you have a Soul. Unlike Skyrim, one Soul unlocks a shout fully. you don't need dragon Souls to do this but it makes an army able to recieve a bonus instantly, whereas a few turns would mean you losing magicka.
A list of possible bonuses to armies this can bring:
Remember, it takes time to research shouts, unless you're (un)lucky and a Dragon appears (lucky as in "Well, now I don't need to spend Magicka on researching FUS RO DAH", unlucky as in "AAARGH I JUST REALIZED I ALREADY SPENT A LOT OF MAGICKA ON IT. DAMNIT." It's all random.)
Currently stuck on god bonuses...
so dynasties:
You have a dynasty! The dynasties of the TES canon are the Septims and Medes. (Septims = 3E, Medes = 4E)
What you do with anyone in this dynasty is up to you. Just remember your empire will fall apart if the dynasty dies out.
Which brings me on to timeflow:
The IOT Starts in Last Seed, 5E1 - Ulfric Stormcloak won the war 3 centuries ago, and Morrowind became independent once more shortly after. The Illiac Bay broke a century ago. The game will proceed in Months - The Elder Scrolls Calendar has 12 months but no leap years.
Months are:
Morning Star
Sun's Dawn
First Seed
Rain's Hand
Second Seed
Midyear
Sun's Height
Last Seed - game starts here
Hearthfire
Frostfall
Sun's Dusk
Evening Star
Last seed is always the month the game starts in - the 27th of Last Seed to be precise. which is why the game starts in that month.
A new Year is every twelve turns - depending on where you are weather can effect combat - choose wisely! (if it's a blizzard... most soldiers are dead before the battle starts.)
Magicks and other Economies
There are three currencies in this game - Septims, Magicka and Dragon Souls. Septims are used to train armies and take over territory and you get a regular deposit every month. Magicka is used to train mages, expand the mages guild, train priests so you can use your Divine Daedric Tribunal power. Magicka is used to research the various Shouts, which takes time depending on expenditure, and comes in larger amounts than Septims - every third month however. Spend wisely.
Dragon Souls are the things you need to speed up the unlocking of the Thu'um, the Voice, for mages and soldiers. These appear at random, since you need to have a dragon in your territory first. You then send an army after it, and next turn you have a Soul. Unlike Skyrim, one Soul unlocks a shout fully. you don't need dragon Souls to do this but it makes an army able to recieve a bonus instantly, whereas a few turns would mean you losing magicka.
A list of possible bonuses to armies this can bring:
Spoiler :
Remember, it takes time to research shouts, unless you're (un)lucky and a Dragon appears (lucky as in "Well, now I don't need to spend Magicka on researching FUS RO DAH", unlucky as in "AAARGH I JUST REALIZED I ALREADY SPENT A LOT OF MAGICKA ON IT. DAMNIT." It's all random.)
There's like 3 Septim dynasties.
Half of Morrowind is Argonia's *****, 1/4 of it asploded, and the other 1/4 probably would've joined up with Skyrim when you take Solstheim and not wanting to be invaded into consideration.
Why do TES games always start in Last Seed?
I dunno if I like the shout system
What about heroes, especially Ulfric, the Dragonborn, and the Emperor?
Half of Morrowind is Argonia's *****, 1/4 of it asploded, and the other 1/4 probably would've joined up with Skyrim when you take Solstheim and not wanting to be invaded into consideration.
Why do TES games always start in Last Seed?
I dunno if I like the shout system
What about heroes, especially Ulfric, the Dragonborn, and the Emperor?
Civ'ed
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*cough5E1cough*
the game takes place 300 years after Skyrim, assuming that the Dragonborn aided Ulfric, Killed the emperor, thus breaking apart the empire for ever, a second eruption of Red mountain forced the Argonians to leave, people decided to come back after a while, Dovahkiin was last seen venturing into Vvardenfell.... and never returned.
Because Alduin =/= Morrowind
Civ'ed
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also, regarding the three septim dynasties - there's the septims, the Alessians and the Medes.
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
So in other words, we assume that the game was finished completing the Dark Brotherhood sidequest and siding with the Stormcloaks in the Civil War side-quests.
I didn't think the Medes had dragon blood.
In Oblivion, I think the main character canonically did every quest, so I don't see why the Dragonborn wouldn't.
And if it's the 5th Era, why would anyone still worship the Tribunal? Two died and the other went poof.
In Oblivion, I think the main character canonically did every quest, so I don't see why the Dragonborn wouldn't.
And if it's the 5th Era, why would anyone still worship the Tribunal? Two died and the other went poof.
Civ'ed
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CivGeneral - Assume that all of Skyrim's quests are complete save the imperial ones. We are assuming Dovahkiin in our case is the one from the Trailer.
AA - Medes didn't, afaik. We can't have Dragonborn siding with both sides.
AND BECAUSE I SAID SO and need a bonus for the dunmer.
AA - Medes didn't, afaik. We can't have Dragonborn siding with both sides.
AND BECAUSE I SAID SO and need a bonus for the dunmer.
