Humans are by no means perfectly adapted. We may genetically modify ourselves, and 500 million years on other planets will result in dramatic changes. The fact that our civilization would last that long and still actually have things like crime is an interesting thing in and of itself.
New NESes, ideas, development, etc
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So, would be people be interested in a 1770 NES? If I started one (not now, I'm going to continue with SerfNES at least a little longer) would people join?
In a good or bad way?
Depends what the conditions are. I kind of like how this NES was restricted into one area. What could be done though, is the into Africa NES in which you could play as one of the African nations and try to hold off the NPC'ed colonial nations. Something of that sort could also be done for the Native American nations vs. European Powers.
No comprendo. Please explain.
In Half a Billion years, humans will be a dramatically different species. The assumptions that we act the same may be difficult to justify, since our brains are changing with our bodies, over time. Also, the fact that humanity- faults and all- has survived for half a billion years would also be a very difficult story to explain. However, if you're up to it, that's good.
Symphony D.
Deity
In it's present state anyway.
Anyway, the idea humans would be the same as they are now after half a billion years is fairly ridiculous, except maybe as some sort of lab experiment by "modern" humans using ancient DNA samples. Even if there were some ultra-purist group opposed to all technological and biological modification, after that kind of time, and with the likely small gene pool such extremism would carry, humanity would be vastly different.
Even if you don't believe the singularity is somewhere within the next millennium or so, and don't believe continued exponential trends in technology will last for the foreseeable future, it's really hard to argue against the idea of humanity ascending to a (by today's standards) almost godlike state if it were somehow to continue on for that long.
pH's FTW! Let's build gigantic rings around the world, experiment with quantum teleportation, build a black hole and sink it into the Earth's core at Paris, and let in a retread cybervirus from Shakespearean plays and a disgusting monster from Robert Browning's imagination! Then we can ascend to godhood and fool around with the Trojan War!
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Someone's been reading Dan Simmons.pH's FTW! Let's build gigantic rings around the world, experiment with quantum teleportation, build a black hole and sink it into the Earth's core at Paris, and let in a retread cybervirus from Shakespearean plays and a disgusting monster from Robert Browning's imagination! Then we can ascend to godhood and fool around with the Trojan War!
I liked Hyperion and Endymion much better than Illium, personally...Shrike? I don't see a Shrike...Someone's been reading Dan Simmons.
Yeah, the entire Hyperion Cantos weren't bad at all, but I sort of like Ilium better because I always was interested in The Tempest and Homer anyway. Reading Hyperion did get me interested in Keats for about three months a few years ago though.
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Mmm...personally I prefer Ilium, and I think the end of the book is utilizable even for a NES.
I dibs Hephaestus and Nyx's little coalition of Olympians and Titans.
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Hi all,
I`m thinking about some kind of piracy NES.
It should be situated in the era of exploration.
You will be an unknown pirate, not having much respect upon others, just with one ship and small pirate settlement hidden out of others. Your task will be to get the respect of other pirates, raising your capital, filling it up with gold from spanish ships, pillaging cities and colonies gaining new stuff, men and gold.
You could buy or build new ships (til now I have about 13 different types from smallest Pinnacle to the great Battleship) and upgrading them and battling with them will give `em new abilities.
The main thing should be to control the most you can with just what you have.
Noone should play the great nations, but you could also get a porposal from them for example to destroy some NPC pirates etc. and you could also join these greatest as Spain, Dutch, British, USA, China, France or Portugal.
Any advices, please?
I`m thinking about some kind of piracy NES.
It should be situated in the era of exploration.
You will be an unknown pirate, not having much respect upon others, just with one ship and small pirate settlement hidden out of others. Your task will be to get the respect of other pirates, raising your capital, filling it up with gold from spanish ships, pillaging cities and colonies gaining new stuff, men and gold.
You could buy or build new ships (til now I have about 13 different types from smallest Pinnacle to the great Battleship) and upgrading them and battling with them will give `em new abilities.
The main thing should be to control the most you can with just what you have.
Noone should play the great nations, but you could also get a porposal from them for example to destroy some NPC pirates etc. and you could also join these greatest as Spain, Dutch, British, USA, China, France or Portugal.
Any advices, please?
Angst
Rambling and inconsistent
You're really scary, do you know that? czNES and your idea now is identical to my two first identical NESes. It's freaking me out.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Lets do an Internet Piracy NES. Each update you have to show proof of something you really pirated and the winner gets points!
But like I was saying this NES could be one in which the point of it is to get off earth asap, but not in a direct way, due to the empire observing from above. The climate would aslo be very wacko in which what could be a seering desert in one turn but could turn out to be a tundra a few turns later. This would be due of corse to the earth's wobbles increaseing beacause of the moon being far away.
honzas_cz
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Really sorry joakim... 
maybe I`ll try it, if there will be someone who will play it.
maybe I`ll try it, if there will be someone who will play it.
