TheGryphonPrince
King
Since this is my first IOT, criticism is encouraged.
Also I made some changes. Since it will be hard to understand all the stats, I decided to do it as a classical IOT with claims. The one rule here will be common sense.
Introduction
This IOT was inspired by a documentary I found intresting named Evacuate Earth. It's a documentary that talks about how Earth would get destroyed if a neutron star came by and how we could escape from such a fate. That's why the backstory will have a spoiler on top on it in case you want to see it. I strongly recommend watching it before reading the backstory.
Backstory
Here's the backstory if you don't want to see the documentary. However, even if you saw the documentary the last 3 paragraphs are relevant to the story, so make sure to read them.
Claims
Although in the Developement thread I said there were going to be 3.5, now that I see some sizes, and the fact that you just began settling a brand new planet for a brand new humanity I think that must change.
Every turn you have 3 claims and you must use them to expand your territory by claiming areas in the map. Every territory counts as 1 claim. When you first start you also have 3 claims.
There are two exceptions. The first one is when you colonize an area outside your sea territory. This wears out all your claims (another rule is that you must colonize islands right in front of your territory) and another one are the glaciar areas. They have grey spots on them, which means they are unclaimable for the moment.
Stability
Stability is what keeps your nation alive. When you first start, you have 0 stability, which means that currently you have an equilibration of stability and instability.
Stability depends on two things: Political strength and extension of your country.
All nations start with 10 points on political, economical and military strength. Political strength measures how well mananged your country is and what is the crime and corruption in your zone. In a real life example, USA and the UK would have one of the biggest amounts of political strength and therefore, stability, while countries like Somalia or Yemen would have poor political strength, and therefore would be unstable. Decisions on your country affect it as well. Say, if you choose to kill any wild human that appears, it will decrease your political strength as they'll start raiding your country more often.
As you may be guessing, political strength is also affected by economical strength. If your economy is low, there will be more crime and corruption, which in turn would decrease your political strength and have a detrimental effect in stability.
About the extension of your country: If your country is extended in a normal way, by having territories that are extended in a more "square" shape, then your stability will be normal. On the other hand, if it controls large amount of territories adjacent to water with no provinces inland for instance, it will hit your stability very hard. Specially if your capital is in a periferical area. Also, density of the population is affected by this too. If your territories are populated by 100 people each, then prepare for a large hole in control, which in turn affects your stability. If however, they are all fairly populated, then you'll have no problems with stability. Remember that the size of the territories are affected by this as well. If you have a small amount of territories in areas which territories are huge, it will affect your stability. If you have a medium amount of territories in an area where territories are small, the effect will be less dramatic.
Having more stability affects positively the politics and the economy (more trade and even tourism if it's avaiable), but having negative stability will mean that there will be less economical force and more raids by part of savages. It will also mean that civil wars might appear or that territories might try to break away from you.
In short: Common sense will tell you what will make your nation stable and what will lead you to the brink of destruction.
Population
Depending of how developed the players are, you start with a certain amount of population that is the average. At the first turn, however, everyone started with 7000.
Population growth is affected by the following things:
Every territory has a base of 10% growth every turn (3 years). This is increased by 1% with territories in contact with water and 1.5% when in contact with rivers. If the territoy is within an infertile area (the brown and the yellow in the map) the growth is affected by -3.5%.
Growth is the only thing positively affected by bad economy, as it gives a whopping 5% growth. However, remember what happens when you mess up with your economy that might kill off that 5% or turn them into criminals.
Map
Territorial/Political map:
Geographical map:
Also I made some changes. Since it will be hard to understand all the stats, I decided to do it as a classical IOT with claims. The one rule here will be common sense.
Introduction
This IOT was inspired by a documentary I found intresting named Evacuate Earth. It's a documentary that talks about how Earth would get destroyed if a neutron star came by and how we could escape from such a fate. That's why the backstory will have a spoiler on top on it in case you want to see it. I strongly recommend watching it before reading the backstory.
Backstory
Here's the backstory if you don't want to see the documentary. However, even if you saw the documentary the last 3 paragraphs are relevant to the story, so make sure to read them.
Spoiler :
Claims
Although in the Developement thread I said there were going to be 3.5, now that I see some sizes, and the fact that you just began settling a brand new planet for a brand new humanity I think that must change.
Every turn you have 3 claims and you must use them to expand your territory by claiming areas in the map. Every territory counts as 1 claim. When you first start you also have 3 claims.
There are two exceptions. The first one is when you colonize an area outside your sea territory. This wears out all your claims (another rule is that you must colonize islands right in front of your territory) and another one are the glaciar areas. They have grey spots on them, which means they are unclaimable for the moment.
Stability
Stability is what keeps your nation alive. When you first start, you have 0 stability, which means that currently you have an equilibration of stability and instability.
Stability depends on two things: Political strength and extension of your country.
All nations start with 10 points on political, economical and military strength. Political strength measures how well mananged your country is and what is the crime and corruption in your zone. In a real life example, USA and the UK would have one of the biggest amounts of political strength and therefore, stability, while countries like Somalia or Yemen would have poor political strength, and therefore would be unstable. Decisions on your country affect it as well. Say, if you choose to kill any wild human that appears, it will decrease your political strength as they'll start raiding your country more often.
As you may be guessing, political strength is also affected by economical strength. If your economy is low, there will be more crime and corruption, which in turn would decrease your political strength and have a detrimental effect in stability.
About the extension of your country: If your country is extended in a normal way, by having territories that are extended in a more "square" shape, then your stability will be normal. On the other hand, if it controls large amount of territories adjacent to water with no provinces inland for instance, it will hit your stability very hard. Specially if your capital is in a periferical area. Also, density of the population is affected by this too. If your territories are populated by 100 people each, then prepare for a large hole in control, which in turn affects your stability. If however, they are all fairly populated, then you'll have no problems with stability. Remember that the size of the territories are affected by this as well. If you have a small amount of territories in areas which territories are huge, it will affect your stability. If you have a medium amount of territories in an area where territories are small, the effect will be less dramatic.
Having more stability affects positively the politics and the economy (more trade and even tourism if it's avaiable), but having negative stability will mean that there will be less economical force and more raids by part of savages. It will also mean that civil wars might appear or that territories might try to break away from you.
In short: Common sense will tell you what will make your nation stable and what will lead you to the brink of destruction.
Population
Depending of how developed the players are, you start with a certain amount of population that is the average. At the first turn, however, everyone started with 7000.
Population growth is affected by the following things:
Every territory has a base of 10% growth every turn (3 years). This is increased by 1% with territories in contact with water and 1.5% when in contact with rivers. If the territoy is within an infertile area (the brown and the yellow in the map) the growth is affected by -3.5%.
Growth is the only thing positively affected by bad economy, as it gives a whopping 5% growth. However, remember what happens when you mess up with your economy that might kill off that 5% or turn them into criminals.
Map
Territorial/Political map:
Geographical map:
