New NESes, ideas, development, etc

[Thlayli]

I don't really care for this scenario as much as some of your other althists, Dachs, but I'll probably play...want to see nation descriptions first, though.

 

[Luckymoose]

Sounds like super duper fun.

 

[Dachs]

Glad to see all the interest! But, uh, is there any critique of the rules themselves? In particular, the economic system...

Is there a map to go with that ruleset, Dachs?

Yeah.

What are you thinking of when you say "permanent NPC?"

Small countries like Anuradhapura, Champa, Ystrad Clud, and Mindanao that I won't allow anybody to play until there are enough players for the larger powers. So, technically not 'permanent'. Their stats will be in a separate area.

 

[Omega124]

It shames me to inform you that the map won't load. Therefore, can you please state all the Chinese dynasties?

(BTW, my only critique of the rules is the application. I find that a little unfair, as I just started NESing, and therefore don't have the experience).

EDIT: It loaded, but could you still tell the names and their colors?

 

[Omega124]

Ah, an opponet in my unification, I see? No worries, my /civilized/ empire shall be the winner, not your barbaric one.

 

[Dachs]

Well, the application doesn't just rely on experience. There are plenty of people here who don't have a whole lot of experience at all (looking at Kraz) and are still regarded as decent NESers. (By some, anyway.) More than anything, I want to get a feel for where you're going to try to take your state and how you might try to do it. In my first NES, a regrettably short-run affair, we had significant problems because some more inexperienced players were playing as Great Powers, and they weren't handling their states well enough to prevent the game from being rather unbalanced. I want to prevent that if possible. Admittedly, this is a more evened-out world than the DaNES I setting...anyway, we'll see. If I can't get the world populated sufficiently, things are going to open up more. And it can't hurt you to apply.

Going from, roughly, west to east:

Spoiler List of polities :

Light brown = Ystrad Clud/Strathclyde
Hot pink = Cambria
Green = Eotenas
Orange = Silengolandam/Siling [Vandal] Belgia
Light peach/white = Bastarmrog/Bastarnae
Olive/brown = Xattoi/Hattolandam/Chatti
Blue = Vindelia
Lime green = Aorsi
Light blue = Republic of Panormos/Palermo
Orchid/purple = Chaonia
Dark olive/brown = Ruxsalannoi/Roxolani
Dark blue = Makedonia/Macedonia
Light olive = Thraikia/Thrace
Pink = Mysia
Dark red = Pisidia
Field-gray = Trapezous/Trebizond
Royal purple = Bosporion Tyrranesis/Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus
Dark gray = Antes
Bright red = Arche Perseia/Perseid Empire
Bright light blue = Aigyptos/Egypt
Bright purple = Hayastan/Armenia
Red-orange = Alodia
Light orange = Arche Seleukeia/Seleukid Empire
Light brown = Aksum/Axum
Green = Areia
Yellow = Mazsakata/Massagetai
Dark purple = Sogdiane/Sogdiana
Light gray = Baktria/Bactria
Light red orange = Kaspeireia
Puce = Patalene
Pink-purple = Pala Empire
Dark red = Tantan Qaganate
Darker blue = Chola
Radioactive lime green = Ganga Empire
Yet Another Green = Anuradhapura
Blue-gray = Kalinga
Darkest blue = Xianbei
Bird's-egg blue = Houqin/Later Qin Dynasty
Brown = Daliang/Great Liang Dynasty
Good God It's Another Green = Jinguk
Greenish Turquoise = Dayang/Great Yang Dynasty
Surprise Surprise More Purple = Wu
Light yellow = Nanyue/Southern Yue Dynasty
Red-pink = Yamato
More Orange = Campadesa/Champa
Dark Green = Nakhor Phnom/Funan

fc, doesn't "wang" just means king or duke? So you'd be the wang of the Wang Dynasty?

 

[Terrance888]

Oooh look! I spy a strong Flanderish kingdom! I shall assume control and have my entertainment as my neighbor's "D'oh!"

 

[Birdjaguar]

I am actively looking for a game to play; The Farow's has not picked up, and Cuivienen's is getting iffier by the day. I'd play this and would like to see your proposed map too.

 

[Luckymoose]

I want Cambria Dachs. Pretty please sir.

 

[Omega124]

If you could move the capital to Beijing, I would like to reserve Daliang.

 

[Terrance888]

I'll take the Belgii-Vandals.

 

[Shadowbound]

I've already expressed an interest in applying for the Liang or Chatti. By the time you get a proper preview up I should have decided between the two. Either way, I don't intend to spend the second DaNES sitting around being "peaceful".

And, Omega, the Liang aren't really "civilized", in the Chinese sense. They're Indo-Europeans that came and took over northern China.

 

[Omega124]

And, Omega, the Liang aren't really "civilized", in the Chinese sense. They're Indo-Europeans that came and took over northern China.

Oh. I that case, could I be a Chinese rebellion with the capital being Bejing? (Assuming it wasn't razed, of course).

 

[Shadowbound]

Sure. Liang gets peasant revolts all the time. Though Beijing hasn't been founded as the capital yet.

 

[Omega124]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Beijing

Beijing existed at least in the 11th century B.C.. Unless it was razed or never built during this time line (Which wouldn't go with the much later P.O.D.), trust me, it's there.

 

[Dachs]

Beijing exists, and is still called Ji; it's a regional city of some importance.

The point of instituting a system of applications is so people can't reserve stuff. You're all on an equal footing in the preview thread, when it starts.

I am actively looking for a game to play; The Farow's has not picked up, and Cuivienen's is getting iffier by the day. I'd play this and would like to see your proposed map too.

Awesome! Here is a link to the map. I'm having some problems with uploading images to CFC or else I'd do it that way.

 

[Thlayli]

Liang will settle and assimilate, IMO, like every other Indo-European tribe that founded a dynasty of some note.

Um, I dunno what I want to play. I'll pick later I guess.

 

[Dachs]

There were other Indo-European tribes that founded a dynasty of some note? In China?

 

[Abaddon]

Yamato please

 

[Kraznaya]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Beijing

Beijing existed at least in the 11th century B.C.. Unless it was razed or never built during this time line (Which wouldn't go with the much later P.O.D.), trust me, it's there.

Yeah but besides being the capital of a petty state it's quite out of the way and not very important at this point. Beijing has always been illogical as a Chinese capital, it was moved there by the Jurchens and the Mongols, not the Han. Being so far north in a barbarian state, I wonder how many Han Chinese are even left in the area.