IOT Developmental Thread

[GhostWriter16]

which will never happen. games like these do not last for an entire year. people will get tired of the same old thing and demand a restart.

Nor should it happen. I agree with Math.

 

[ZeletDude]

How about you guys stop spamming the thread..

 

[W|M]

yes to all

 

[GenMarshall]

@ CivG: That vote is over. Didn't you see my tallying up post?

I dont care, I just want to vote. Shesh its the LEAST I can do without being seen not active nor participating in this thread . Give me a freeking break! GOD!! Just add in my votes for Christ sakes, don't give me a flipping hard time already!

- We need a standard time scale. I suggest 1 update = 3 months.
- Instead of calculating exact GDP and budgets for each country, I think something more abstract might be better and less complicated while allowing for some realism to be modelled. The economic strength of a country should be represented by a single value (similar to "infrastructure" in Cybernations if you've ever played it, or Industrial Capacity (IC) in Hearts of Iron).
- Taking the IC route, we could have a slider system where IC is divided among a few key areas, say, for instances, economic development, military and research. The amount of growth in IC (as % of original IC) would depend on your level of economic development IC spending, and the size of your military you can support would depend on the defence IC spending.
- Trade should have actual effects on the game, though I'm not sure how best to model this.

Yes
No - Keep it simple
Yes
Yes

 

[Double A]

6 months, I don't care about the rest.

 

[Tee Kay]

Why six months? At least I have a reason for wanting three months (seasonal change). What's the reason for six months? Too long IMHO.

 

[GhostWriter16]

Why six months? At least I have a reason for wanting three months (seasonal change). What's the reason for six months? Too long IMHO.

Because with three you get political crisis more often then you should. I personally want 6 months or one year, but I don't care much.

 

[Tee Kay]

Because with three you get political crisis more often then you should. I personally want 6 months or one year, but I don't care much.

That's not a time scale problem, that's a spam and/or World War I style alliance problem.

 

[MathNerd]

Yes to all except for the 3 month update thing. I was thinking that it would better to have 6 month updates with each update every 2 - 3 days.

 

[Mathalamus]

Yes to all except for the 3 month update thing. I was thinking that it would better to have 6 month updates with each update every 2 - 3 days.

no. one update every 24 hours.

 

[GhostWriter16]

no. one update every 24 hours.

this...

 

[Joecoolyo]

this...

Dommy, please stop with this OT chatter. This is you final warning before I ban you from the next game.

EDIT: This goes for Mathalamus too

I dont care, I just want to vote. Shesh its the LEAST I can do without being seen not active nor participating in this thread . Give me a freeking break! GOD!! Just add in my votes for Christ sakes, don't give me a flipping hard time already!

I didn't mean to offend. It's just that to keep this thread nice and tidy, once a vote's done it's done. And anyways, you chose the one vote that I will never, ever go back to. That vote is going to haunt my dreams for the next couple weeks.

But now, for the tally!

-We need a standard time scale. I suggest 1 update = 3 months. IIIIIIIIII/000
-Instead of calculating exact GDP and budgets for each country, I think something more abstract might be better and less complicated while allowing for some realism to be modelled. The economic strength of a country should be represented by a single value (similar to "infrastructure" in Cybernations if you've ever played it, or Industrial Capacity (IC) in Hearts of Iron). IIIIIIIIII/00
-Taking the IC route, we could have a slider system where IC is divided among a few key areas, say, for instances, economic development, military and research. The amount of growth in IC (as % of original IC) would depend on your level of economic development IC spending, and the size of your military you can support would depend on the defence IC spending. IIIIIIIII/000
-Trade should have actual effects on the game, though I'm not sure how best to model this. IIIIIIIIIII/00

Hehe, it seems as though Tailless has gotten universal acclaim for his ideas. All are staying!

Now for Round 7!

Voting: Round 7
-Prefabricated map of countries, as to do away with expansion component and make the game simpler
-Changing the name from Imperium Offtopicum to Imperium Civfanaticum
-Each update should be in a sort of "story" that the GM would write to make it more interesting
-Spice Events, using RL world-wide events to keep the game interesting

 

[Zack]

No to all.

Any reason why they're repeated?

 

[Joecoolyo]

Check out my ninja edit

 

[Mathalamus]

no,no,no, and yes. provided you are truly random about it.

 

[Lighthearter]

Voting: Round 7
-Prefabricated map of countries, as to do away with expansion component and make the game simpler
NO.

-Changing the name from Imperium Offtopicum to Imperium Civfanaticum
Abstain - I don't really care.

-Each update should be in a sort of "story" that the GM would write to make it more interesting
YES. That could be fun and helpful.

-Spice Events, using RL world-wide events to keep the game interesting
I'd rather they be random events like I do with Realpolitik but sure.

- Lighthearter

 

[Arakhor]

Prefabricated countries are boring, I really want to see Imperium Civfanaticum as the new name, a story update would be good if possible and random events could be interesting.

 

[Double A]

-Prefabricated map of countries, as to do away with expansion component and make the game simpler
NO!

-Changing the name from Imperium Offtopicum to Imperium Civfanaticum
Ew.

-Each update should be in a sort of "story" that the GM would write to make it more interesting
Meh.

-Spice Events, using RL world-wide events to keep the game interesting
Sounds lame.

 

[ZeletDude]

No to all except the last one.

 

[W|M]

No to all except the last one.

This.