JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
It sounds amazing, I'd give this a try. 
IOT Developmental Thread
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SouthernKing
crickety cricket
I'd return from exile to play that.
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
yep...
up till the point someone knocks and says you have to get rid of Talos worship
anyway, how does one worship three dead gods? (i think Vivec died when the ministry of truth crashed)
Quite simply - true believers don't say "Gosh darn it. My god's gone and died. Golly." they keep believing.
OH JESUS CHRIST I ALREADY EXPLAINED THIS IN THE SKYRIM THREAD
Blah blah blah Morrowind ends and Vivec was left by his lonesome and mortal. He kept the Ministry up until he faded away from existence and hasn't been heard from since. Then the Ingenium, invented by a Dunmer named Vuhon, was used to stop the meteor thing for a good 43 years. It was powered by souls, which was convenient because the Ministry's a prison. He started to use "good" souls because the person they belong to doesn't immediately die (sustainable resources ftw). One of these soul owners was the lover of Sul (both Dunmer), in the machine.
Being a total badass, Sul didn't take this very well. He "rescued" his woman, which caused the whole machine to asploe. It sent him and Vuhon into Clavidicus Vile's realm. Some crap happened, Vuhon merged (or something) with the embodiment of Umbra (which had stolen a fair chunk of Clavy's power), and then after more crap, Prince Attrebus Mede (who Sul had previously rescued) helped his buddy essentially stop Umbriel (a giant floating island-city that eats souls & lorded over by Vuhon-Umbra) from killing everything in Tamriel.
Short version: No, he didn't.
Blah blah blah Morrowind ends and Vivec was left by his lonesome and mortal. He kept the Ministry up until he faded away from existence and hasn't been heard from since. Then the Ingenium, invented by a Dunmer named Vuhon, was used to stop the meteor thing for a good 43 years. It was powered by souls, which was convenient because the Ministry's a prison. He started to use "good" souls because the person they belong to doesn't immediately die (sustainable resources ftw). One of these soul owners was the lover of Sul (both Dunmer), in the machine.
Being a total badass, Sul didn't take this very well. He "rescued" his woman, which caused the whole machine to asploe. It sent him and Vuhon into Clavidicus Vile's realm. Some crap happened, Vuhon merged (or something) with the embodiment of Umbra (which had stolen a fair chunk of Clavy's power), and then after more crap, Prince Attrebus Mede (who Sul had previously rescued) helped his buddy essentially stop Umbriel (a giant floating island-city that eats souls & lorded over by Vuhon-Umbra) from killing everything in Tamriel.
Short version: No, he didn't.
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@Arya: Yeah that sounds damned fun. One question though: how will people be able to hide the fact that they are Germany/Japan? If they aren't controlling a state it should be fairly obvious.
Tani Coyote
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Barring the Enerjak Incident, my NPCs are hardly gamebreaking. "Game breaking" is a buzzword, and I can safely tell you that on average humans are just as good at it as NPCs; see the events of IOT IV and Fiat Lux.
If you dislike NPCs, you can always sign up elsewhere; the market of IOTs always tends to be pretty well saturated.
NPCs also force players to decide on a strategy besides beating eachother over the head with their military - they need to seize allies around the globe and fight proxy wars. Full escalation over clients, furthermore, is undesirable.
And I can safely say with MP, I finally found a system that works, as I've mad it crippling to pursue too large a campaign of expansion.
I tend to punish large gamebreaking alliances by excluding them from good events and counting them twice or so for bad ones. The more random factors your game has, the easier it is to contain such alliances.
arya126
Squad Leader
They would officially control a state but have no power over it or something like that. Not quite sure yet. But all communication on Germany or Japan would be done via PM.
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
Well, you have in the past made them take center stage
. The ones in SOM are the Minor NPCs that I can tolerate since they don't expand at all.
Graceheart the Leopard
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I wonder: in I&B2, are nations like Robert Can't's New Lunar Republic in SOM tolerated?
Tambien
Theseus, Duke of Athens
Arya, I would love to play such a game! *reserves Virginia*
ilduce349
(Financial, Philo)
what are the relatively new IOTs? I might consider joining one.
mayor
Heart & Mind
Please do not make me choose between my love of history and my love of ponies.
Short answer: maybe. Long answer: please create plausible countries. Our setting is 19th century alternate history Earth; your country should fit into that environment.
Characters and things from MLP:FiM (or any other OTL works of fantasy fiction) can be present in the game as fiction or myths. You could even name your country "Equestria" if you want, perhaps governed by the "Celestial Laws of Harmony" or whatever, but its inhabitants will be humans, ponies will be no more than fictional characters or, at most, mythical spirits or creatures, and overall its existance has to be appropriate with respect to neighbouring countries and the game world as a whole.
Additionally, if you decide to import something from an existing work of fiction, you can't expect people to just know what you are talking about. You can't expect other players to know what the Elements of Harmony are; you would have to explain them if you ever use them in a sentence.
In short, yes, you can incorporate elements of your favourite show or film or game or book into the country you are creating, but it has to be plausible and appropriate for the IB2 game world. This is not Mosaic Earth.
That said, I would prefer countries which are not based on an OTL work of fiction. It's Iron and Blood, not Fanfic Chopsuey. Also, remember that some players might find it obnoxious, and will gang up to annex your country at the earliest opportunity, so do it at your own peril.
Graceheart the Leopard
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^^
Thanks. Anyways, my heart is set on a wayward Mughal colony in the Americas, so you don't have to worry.
Thanks. Anyways, my heart is set on a wayward Mughal colony in the Americas, so you don't have to worry.
hoplitejoe
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Wayward colonies FTW 
I have already got a lot of an Ottoman Venezuela planned.
I have already got a lot of an Ottoman Venezuela planned.
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
Calm down, I've got it all worked out.
Because, y'see I just let the game take place a few hundred years after Skyrim. this means I can make events happen - like a surge of Tribunal worship.
christos200
Never tell me the odds
In I&B2 i will create a communist Greece ruled by comrade Darth Vader.
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I was going to make the SFRJ
