orangelex44
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Kol, have you decided yet when this is going to start?
Pre-EkoNES: Fall From Heaven
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Immaculate
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map with political boundries?
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Ekolite
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Ok, general comment about the start of the game.
Each player will have a starting region, starting gold, and one or more starting discoveries. Your starting region will be devoid of any major threat, although I cannot promise that your neighbouring regions will be. You will have a certain amount of gold to start of with, which should be enough for two settlements if you want to build two, if you choose to start with two settlements please bear in mind that you will have little gold left over for development. You may decide that it is better for you to start with only one settlement and develop it with population, buildings and improvements. There will be several different buildings and improvements (as well as one or two units) available at the start of the game. To settle outside of your starting region you need to train a ''settling party'', which can be killed, captured, or in some other way destroyed with ease if you move them casually into a dangerous region. You must protect these units! And even still, there safetly is not guaranteed.
Every faction will start with one ''unique discovery'' which will relate to their faction in some way. You can suggest a UD but don't get pissed if I completely ignore your idea and give you something else, more then likely you will be able to get your choice of discovery at a later date.
Each player will have a starting region, starting gold, and one or more starting discoveries. Your starting region will be devoid of any major threat, although I cannot promise that your neighbouring regions will be. You will have a certain amount of gold to start of with, which should be enough for two settlements if you want to build two, if you choose to start with two settlements please bear in mind that you will have little gold left over for development. You may decide that it is better for you to start with only one settlement and develop it with population, buildings and improvements. There will be several different buildings and improvements (as well as one or two units) available at the start of the game. To settle outside of your starting region you need to train a ''settling party'', which can be killed, captured, or in some other way destroyed with ease if you move them casually into a dangerous region. You must protect these units! And even still, there safetly is not guaranteed.
Every faction will start with one ''unique discovery'' which will relate to their faction in some way. You can suggest a UD but don't get pissed if I completely ignore your idea and give you something else, more then likely you will be able to get your choice of discovery at a later date.
Immaculate
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Discovery requested: the golem-making tech!!!
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Ekolite
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Guys you should begin to start thinking about your back-story now so that it's sorted before the game begins. What I mean by this is any changes you want to make to your faction that diverges from the standard lore. You can change what God you worship, how your society is structured and so on, should you wish to do so. You cannot change the basic defining feature of your faction though, Hippus = Horses, Luchuip = Golems, Balseraphs = Chaos etc etc.
The idea with adding your own creative influences to your faction is to make this a unique and interesting world that is different to standard FFH-ism. I'm prepared to be fairly lenient with lore diverging, but I will put my foot down on any matters that don't make sense in the context or change the history of the world as defined by me (So if you're trying to make out that your faction is lead by a resurected Mulcarn or something). You don't have to make any major changed, and your back story can be as little as a short bit of information about your current leader if you want. Don't make changes for the sake of making changes.
I've already had a couple of players who want to take their faction in a completely different direction to their stereotypical, cannon lore. This is very much supported by me.
The idea with adding your own creative influences to your faction is to make this a unique and interesting world that is different to standard FFH-ism. I'm prepared to be fairly lenient with lore diverging, but I will put my foot down on any matters that don't make sense in the context or change the history of the world as defined by me (So if you're trying to make out that your faction is lead by a resurected Mulcarn or something). You don't have to make any major changed, and your back story can be as little as a short bit of information about your current leader if you want. Don't make changes for the sake of making changes.
I've already had a couple of players who want to take their faction in a completely different direction to their stereotypical, cannon lore. This is very much supported by me.
Diamondeye
So Happy I Could Die
The Hippus will be a matriarchy led by a Daughter of Maika, a ritual title granted to the queen figure. My unique tech would most probably be something about horsies... "Bloodlines"?
kenkrajen
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nice to see the map is done. can i get a color that doesn't look like i settled a giant pile of mud?
Ekolite
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I quite liked that colour for the Lanun, but if you'd prefer something else I could probably change it. It needs to contrast with the Elohim though. I could probably do a (really) dark blue if that would be better, or maybe something new - you don't have to use the colour used in FFH.
I suggest toning down the neutral provinces colour. Right now, 36,39,27 don't stand out very well. 40 and 34 look like 39 a lot. Maybe making independant/neutral/wild provinces greyer or whiter or whatever makes contrast more apparent would help read the map. That or making (N)PC provinces brighter/more saturated. Maybe just more saturated near the borders?
Immaculate
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Send out starting stats, starting gold, starting shopping choices and give us until the start day to write orders...i want to start this thing....
kenkrajen
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i second that. soon would be good. but if u want to wait another week that'd be fine cuz it is finals week.
KillerClowns
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Seconded. I get outta college early, my finals were last week, and I've got a lot of time to kill. Scheming, plotting, and writing seem excellent ways to do so.
Immaculate
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With everyone's permission, would i be able to get a forward of any resource list you got ekolite?
Ekolite
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Awards
Periodically I will issue various awards to players for their achievements. Most likely this will be done every 6 turns, as a semi-update between update 6 and 7, 12 and 13 etc etc.
To avoid the moderator bias that some NESes have when issueing awards I will try to use as objective data as possible for deciding who gets which award. The rewards will be standardised, and the same each time, except for possibly one or two that are unique to the current situation.
Awards will all come with small prizes and it is possible for players to share an award if there is a tie. Some awards may be voted for by the players via a secret ballot, although i'm wary of tactical voting to secure prizes for your friends.
So anyway, if anyone has any ideas for awards please post in this thread explaining the idea and a couple of words about how a winner could be decided.
Periodically I will issue various awards to players for their achievements. Most likely this will be done every 6 turns, as a semi-update between update 6 and 7, 12 and 13 etc etc.
To avoid the moderator bias that some NESes have when issueing awards I will try to use as objective data as possible for deciding who gets which award. The rewards will be standardised, and the same each time, except for possibly one or two that are unique to the current situation.
Awards will all come with small prizes and it is possible for players to share an award if there is a tie. Some awards may be voted for by the players via a secret ballot, although i'm wary of tactical voting to secure prizes for your friends.
So anyway, if anyone has any ideas for awards please post in this thread explaining the idea and a couple of words about how a winner could be decided.
