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While We Wait: Boredom Strikes Back
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Luckymoose
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I'm sorry I usually just ignore anything you have to say.
Abaddon
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Weird.. must have been an imposter posting as you on the previous page?
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SKILORD
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True, the Rancor has been extinct for a long time, and only ever existed in a galaxy far away. It was hunted to extinction by the Jedi in one on one combat, they kept falling for that trick with the descending gate.
So, no use beating a dead Rancor.
So, no use beating a dead Rancor.
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But what about my Green Stompy!?!?
True. I killed a rancor in the sewers of the Undercity on my way to the Black Vulkar base and when I cut it open hoping to find some loot it was empty and the rancor corpse disappeared. I was disappoint.
SprylliNES IV really needs two players to get off the ground, to take the characters of Midnas Ax-Lord and Donatas Horsehammer, and to characterise them and participate in the selection of a monarch for the city. A few reserves would be good too.
The NES is not just a Never Ending Story, but a Never Ending Myth! The players collaborate to create a myth of the history of the city of Lerone, and the creativity of the players ought to be the driving force behind not just the players' actions but also the very world they live in. Players' stories have as much canonicity as my own posts, and so players need to make sure they read everything in detail.
So please can people join my NES? It's going really well so far except for the absence of players, and I have high hopes for it if anyone shows their willingness to play.
The NES is not just a Never Ending Story, but a Never Ending Myth! The players collaborate to create a myth of the history of the city of Lerone, and the creativity of the players ought to be the driving force behind not just the players' actions but also the very world they live in. Players' stories have as much canonicity as my own posts, and so players need to make sure they read everything in detail.
So please can people join my NES? It's going really well so far except for the absence of players, and I have high hopes for it if anyone shows their willingness to play.
@Spry, I would've joined had I had any real interest, however, I really didn't, and while I always liking seeing NESes succeed, I'd only be joining now solely for that reason, and wouldn't be near fully motivated or committed. Good Luck though. 
ALSO, for someone who's been interesting in moding a non-earth fresh start for some time, what books for general history, cultures, economics, warfare, trade, diplomacy etc. (and anything else useful) would anyone recommend to taking a look at for a compement level knowledge in everything required for that type of a NES?
ALSO, for someone who's been interesting in moding a non-earth fresh start for some time, what books for general history, cultures, economics, warfare, trade, diplomacy etc. (and anything else useful) would anyone recommend to taking a look at for a compement level knowledge in everything required for that type of a NES?
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Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part One
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I'ma go check it out.
That crazy reserved post stuff, post the update!
We need to get the Pope involved in the situation in America. Condemn the violence, sanction holy (Catholic) warriors of liberation.
We should write him a letter, I'd bet we could at least find some Archbishops who would get into it.
That crazy reserved post stuff, post the update!
We need to get the Pope involved in the situation in America. Condemn the violence, sanction holy (Catholic) warriors of liberation.
We should write him a letter, I'd bet we could at least find some Archbishops who would get into it.
Moderator Action: One can only hope for serious answers to serious questions in a thread like this.
For warfare: it depends on the period.
Ideally, I'd love to get from the ancient era to the modern day, however, I guess I can start out just asking for anything about ancient warfare.
@Masada, Thanks for the suggestions.
"Ancient" is extremely vague. China? The Mediterranean littoral? India? Preclassical Maya? Different books cover each, and of the few that do cover everything, like Dupuy and Dupuy's famous Encyclopedia, they do it very superficially. Methods of warfare are a product of geographical circumstance, societal structures, technology, development internal to a military, and contingency, and affect all of those things in turn. Ideally, for a proper NES set in a blank-slate non-Earth map, you'd be familiar with all of the historical options and plenty of ahistorical (but plausible) ones, and would determine which of them were most plausible for certain situations. And that requires a systematic, systematizing comparative study of ancient warfare across regions that I don't believe exists in sufficient detail to make it useful. Ancient warfare is almost totally confined as a subject on its own to the popular historians and hobby-historians, and very few academics (like, say, Nick Sekunda) do much work focusing on chiefly military things.
Having said that, the Fighting Techniques of the ______ World books are non-terrible. And the Osprey line is usually good enough for government work. Mostly, I advise looking around in local libraries and seeing what you can find, and just using that. Besides, if you're blatantly wrong about something, there aren't a whole lot of people here who can call you out on it, and not all of them care about the development of a non-Earth NES.
Having said that, the Fighting Techniques of the ______ World books are non-terrible. And the Osprey line is usually good enough for government work. Mostly, I advise looking around in local libraries and seeing what you can find, and just using that. Besides, if you're blatantly wrong about something, there aren't a whole lot of people here who can call you out on it, and not all of them care about the development of a non-Earth NES.
"Ancient" is extremely vague. China? The Mediterranean littoral? India? Preclassical Maya? Different books cover each, and of the few that do cover everything, like Dupuy and Dupuy's famous Encyclopedia, they do it very superficially. Methods of warfare are a product of geographical circumstance, societal structures, technology, development internal to a military, and contingency, and affect all of those things in turn. Ideally, for a proper NES set in a blank-slate non-Earth map, you'd be familiar with all of the historical options and plenty of ahistorical (but plausible) ones, and would determine which of them were most plausible for certain situations. And that requires a systematic, systematizing comparative study of ancient warfare across regions that I don't believe exists in sufficient detail to make it useful. Ancient warfare is almost totally confined as a subject on its own to the popular historians and hobby-historians, and very few academics (like, say, Nick Sekunda) do much work focusing on chiefly military things.
Having said that, the Fighting Techniques of the ______ World books are non-terrible. And the Osprey line is usually good enough for government work. Mostly, I advise looking around in local libraries and seeing what you can find, and just using that. Besides, if you're blatantly wrong about something, there aren't a whole lot of people here who can call you out on it, and not all of them care about the development of a non-Earth NES.
Ancient is vague, because learning anything and everything about anywhere in the time is good progress for me, and as you stated, I do want to know all the plausible scenarios, because, if anything, the goal I have is to avoid a noticeably unrealistic NES, to limit the errors, and yes, I know non-earth NESes aren't among your favorites Dachs, thanks for the advice.
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