While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses

[Terrance888]

Jehoshua would play that in a heartbeat .

Sillines MUST reach update 100 first, but I can still brainstorm, eh?

INES-style, this will NOT be super serious, just enough to maintain atmosphere. So a bit more serious than TerraNES near the end, but less than update 6-12 TerraNES.

Space travel and interplanetary travel will be common for nobles, but over all rare and exceedingly expensive.

Families will be the key agents of power. Non family members generally will be on a continuum of loyalty to effectiveness. Even family members will have their own differences.

 

[Lord of Elves]

Jehoshua would play that in a heartbeat .

Sillines MUST reach update 100 first, but I can still brainstorm, eh?

INES-style, this will NOT be super serious, just enough to maintain atmosphere. So a bit more serious than TerraNES near the end, but less than update 6-12 TerraNES.

Space travel and interplanetary travel will be common for nobles, but over all rare and exceedingly expensive.

Families will be the key agents of power. Non family members generally will be on a continuum of loyalty to effectiveness. Even family members will have their own differences.

Far be it from me to burden your project with unneeded SRS BSNS, however, I think it would be more reasonable to expect that space travel itself would be relatively inexpensive. Space travel on a massive scale will only ever be undertaken in circumstances in which it is essentially practical, in expensive, in relative terms. What might be more reasonable to say is that the resources necessary for interstellar or extra-planetary travel are consolidated in the hands of the noble houses and merchant guilds and are not generally available to the public.

 

[Terrance888]

On another hand, running with with space opera rules aka Star Wars is also appealling.

Edit: In the end the level of srsbsns is determined more by the player than the moderator. Still, it affects how seriously I take it and how seriously I handle the updates .

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Sorry Thomas, i can't do that.
I WILL run them one day (Sequel to Emperor of Fading Heavens -or whatever it was i called it)

They are only about 2 months old also- which means that i've been thinking about this - ruminating slowly.

EDIT: I am willing to TALK to you about them though... and plumb you for ideas.


Yeah- thats one thing i would be interested in, whats an interesting planet idea....? (I think symph made a good point about monobiome planets being boring) Should be physically and ecologically plausible and have something interesting and otherworldly to it. Should also be earth-like (breathable- or almost breathable environment, certain areas should be habitable without too great of technological support, etc)

No worries! I'll certainly be interested in Joining it, as well as discussing things.

Also, I got a job as Lead Writer for a startup video-game company.

 

[Immaculate]

Awesome. Congrats.

 

[Tycho]

Pretty awesome, thomas, hope to see some great work from you.

 

[Jehoshua]

Jehoshua would play that in a heartbeat .

Only in your imagination

 

[Daftpanzer]

One thing Terrance888 forgot,
"SPACE CHURCH"- you know the inquisition has flame-throwers.

Also see Warhammer 40,000: Imperial Inquisitors

 

[Terrance888]

BAM heresy!

 

[SouthernKing]

Immaculate: Perhaps, an interesting thing (if you could manage it, obviously) is that you could have two separate habitable planets in close proximity to each other. Binary habitable planets might be stretching it, but two habitable moons of a larger planet in a star's habitable zone would also work.
Alternatively, a planet around a flare star would be interesting; the periodic increase of the parent star's luminosity could screw around with the planet's environment and make things interesting.

 

[Terrance888]

TerraNES2: SilliNES Part 1: The Invisible Hand is In Your Pants just updated the first time, BARELY on schedule. You think you can handle 3 updates a week? You think you know your own country best? You think you deserve creative control? Join SilliNES!

 

[Daedwartin]

Space Fuedalism.

You get HIGH TECHNOLOGY SHENANIGANS!

You get FAMILY BASED POLITICS!

You get GAME OF THRONES STYLE BACKSTABBING.

You get UNQUESTIONING SERFS TO BEAT UP>

Perfect NES.

and it appears that the Tau have shown up. Space Marines are in route.
please wait 10 years.

BAM heresy!

*BLAM* HERESY.
Emperor Protects.
OOC: it's *BLAM* HERESY, not BAM heresy. doing what you did is heretical.

 

[ork75]

and it appears that the Tau have shown up. Space Marines are in route.
please wait 10 years.


*BLAM* HERESY.
Emperor Protects.
OOC: it's *BLAM* HERESY, not BAM heresy. doing what you did is heretical.

By talking about *BLAM* HERESY, you are a heretic.

*BLAM* HERESY

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Disregard Heresy. Acquire Biomass.

 

[Crezth]

Protect the craftworld!

 

[Grandkhan]

Imperium-chan, are you kawaii? *~uguu~*

 

[thomas.berubeg]

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

 

[Daedwartin]

In the name of our Lord, The God Emperor, I hereby declare Exterminatus upon this discussion. I hereby condemn it's insanity to oblivion. emperor protects.

as a result, all have accepted Matt Ward as their spiritual liege.

This heresy will need sorting out later.

 

[ork75]

SPIRITUAL LIEGE!!!!!!1111!!!!!111!!!!!

Hey Matt, are you SURE that's Skull White....?

EDIT: shoot, got really bad internet. sorry for the double post

 

[das]

So has anyone else here seen Legend of Galactic Heroes? I'm a bit surprised it took me this long to get around to it. It seems like it would appeal to quite a lot of people here.