Ahoj!
Have Swamphen, Ithekro, Desertfox and Alikichi been invited here?
Borys
So far I've done nothing like that.
Swampy's out for a couple weeks, I think. I'll contact Alikchi today, see where he's at.
I've been lurking at Wesworld this morning and have seen all four of these worthies. I've contacted each and will await responses.
It seems I just can sit back and enjoy others working....
Isn't life grand sometimes?
Earl822 got a little reminder...
Ahoj!
Rock, put "Maddox's slavering minion" in your sig :)
Borys
Don't overdo it Borys ;D
I could get used to this.
I myself am not a wesworld visitor. So Rockies work there is very much appreciated.
And the problem with the other group I could recruit from is that most Roleplayers I know don't like the idea of using a computer as medium.
QuoteRock, put "Maddox's slavering minion" in your sig
I don't do unpaid endorsements.
There's potentially one or two folks at Wesworld that might be worth speaking to. I'll drop them a line.
Hi guys, Im in.
A split...wouldn't be the first time. Might be interesting to start again...more or less.
Ahoj!
There seems to be a slight majority for continuation. Could the admins create forums and subforms like at the old site? Then we could get busy copying and pasting. IMO the Jane's can be skipped, as that should be under Naval in Powers that Be anyway.
In the meantime the boys and lady would iron out the wrinkles in the rules etc.
And we'd begin where we left, around year end 1904, on the 15th?
That would allow Swampy to come back to us. Maybe we could find some additional players in the meantime?
Borys
I think we should not take any new players for the time being. We'll have a lot of work to do, and we have to iron out any kinks. After say 1905 we could start looking for new players.
Ahoj!
You think so?
OK - I will stop pestering people then ...
Borys
Actually, I'd say that new players should be added if available, to give some additional momentum to the re-start. However - that means that the way in which new players are introduced must be agreed upon in advance. I'll be starting a thread on that shortly.
"Greetings Weblings."
A fresh start is one way to break the writer's blockade...
Ahoj!
BoP seems a safe bet - he knows the world.
From what I gather he never learnt the rules :) so the switch will come easily to him :D
Borys
For those of you familiar with Wesworld, I'm thinking that Perdedor (WW Peru) might be worth approaching. Ditto Psilander - his interest in Scandinavia might translate into a candidate for the Baltic League (or whatever replaces it).
Don't know if Hood or ShinRa would be interested and able to spare the time, but may be worth asking.
I was going to suggest head-hunting LTJim from Bob's BC board, but then remembered that we have enough trouble getting LettersTime out of him as it is.
Ahoj!
I had tried to lure Psilander, but failed. Maybe you'll have more luck.
Borys
Hood expressed some "don't tempt me..." type interest when I pitched N-verse 2.0 to him, so perhaps he might be lured into N2.5...
What about Walter? "Real" Japanesims
Merged with a similar thread.
Ahoj!
I think I recruited a CSA player. Carthaginian from WarshipProjects.
And a bloke on the "old" board was asking about the Baltic League ...
Borys
Quote from: Borys on March 01, 2007, 04:10:14 PM
Ahoj!
I think I recruited a CSA player. Carthaginian from WarshipProjects.
And a bloke on the "old" board was asking about the Baltic League ...
Borys
Good, good... :)
As a note...although
I would prefer to start a fresh country, if somebody else would desire to port the DKB and run it themselves, I wouldn't object.
I would recommend a retcon for the DKB as you could, in theory, have a lot of new lands to expand into, and thus not be stuck with islands, but with the beginning of a whole continent to conquor in the name of Germany.
Hmmm, very tempting...
(Wasn't that the original idea for "Brandenburg" back when dinosaurs roamed the WesWorld?)
Of course I'd need a larger fleet... ;D
Your right Rocky, however we must be careful about who we invite. The pack from Wesworld are OK as is Carthaginian.
New Continents to conquer? Tempting to say the least, now new island that would be perfect, a true New Switzerland...
Well if we go the fantasy route, we will be able to use our imaginations a little more openly. We'll still have restrictions otherwise we'll get 1960s Cold War superpowers in the 1890s and not be able to stop them. While the tech tree is nice and has paid off for Rohan when it plays the tech rolling game, it is not perfect. However with a larger planet we might be able to justify some extraordinary technology at the expense of other technologies due to isolation, necessity, and/or ancient cultures, though that doesn't always mean much....as the Greeks would have invented the steam engine (actaully they did, but it was a novelty that went nowhere), or Leonardo with his advanced technology designs that point the way, but never get all the way there for hundreds of years. Rohan is ahead in some areas of technology at present, but is (or was) behind in many others before tech trading began. Some nations would follow different paths of technology due to something not being introduced to their land (such as steam not being overtaken by internal combustion engines maybe, or oil burners invented due to the region not having any access to coal ever, but still crude in use and or heavy on sail power. There are lots of possibilities without taking things our beyond 1910 technology, or even modernizing old technologies within the bounds of reason.
Would we start then again in an earlier time ?
I think 1898 is good, much earlier and otherwise we'll all have ironclads like HMS Captain, and thus an awful lot of expensive failures.
We may want to take sometime when we first start out to specify exactly what our nations think of each other, and be careful that we don't treaty ourselves into a cold war, and be careful not to be overly mouthing off, remembering that international diplomacy takes time, even with Marconi sets.
Another place to look for new players may be over on warships projects, but endeavour to recruit people who are commited, and in for the long haul.
I am here and up for it, if you folks will have me. :)
Ahoj!
Wellcome.
But will you play or pad up the numbers?
Borys
QuoteI am here and up for it, if you folks will have me.
No reason why not ::) ::), welcome aboard.
I would prefer a later starting date say 1904. Im more comfortable in that time period, but am wiling to go as far back as 1898.
My personal choice would be 1/1/1906, this would allow those who would like to work some of their Nv2.0 interactions into 'the New History' to do so (i.e. there wouldn't need to be a replay of the Rohan-Anahuac War) while it lets us immediately start playing with Dreadnoughts, which remain popular. ;D
Ahoj!
1/1/1906 looks good.
This would make 1905 a "fast forward" year for the old player, and allow for some window dressing.
Borys
Skipping ahead a year, in conjunction with some sort of "Mosaic Earth" scenario, would allow for some folks to modify their existing nations to suit them better, rather than forcing them to start entirely from scratch.
Earl822 wants less of Canada and the central US, and more Europe. So when the Earth gets chunked up in the time/space continuum, the parts of UKA he doesn't want won't come along for the ride. Nor do some of the other nations in Europe. But in the year of time between the end of 2.0 and the start of 3.0, perhaps Earl822's rump UKA can collect, through diplomacy or use of force, some of the other flotsam and jetsam (Iceland, Greenland, Denmark) that comes along into 3.0.
Ahoj!
You are describing my preferred solution. I could play with the map and write a several pages long horror story "The Events of 1905, after which the World We Knew was No More".
Borys
(Not sure if the serfs and other semi-intelligent creatures of the Nverse should be aware of the changes we ASBs inflict on them. ??? ;D )
*strokes chin thinking*
A modified Brandenburg...larger island, larger fleet...might work simply to enlarge exsisting classes, in fact just take the @-up-to-1904 German fleet perhaps...would want to keep the "Scharnhorsts" although they'd be renamed...not sure what to do with the Rohirrm-building Blücher though...
WWI!!! Or else a giant asteroid slams into Africa creating an inland sea and blocking Earth's view from space for a year! ;D
Ahoj!
Don't get carried away Swampy - your schwartz will not get bigger :D
Borys
QuoteOr else a giant asteroid slams into Africa creating an inland sea and blocking Earth's view from space for a year!
Only as an old geological feature - bear in mind what a cause of a similar crater apparently did to the dinosaurs. It'd happily do the same to the inhabitants of 1905.
Quote from: Borys on March 02, 2007, 08:00:33 AM
Don't get carried away Swampy - your schwartz will not get bigger :D
We'll go though 1905 at ludicrious speed!
Quote from: Borys on March 02, 2007, 05:21:21 AM
Ahoj!
Wellcome.
But will you play or pad up the numbers?
Borys
Well, if things go better over here than they have been, I'll be much more likely to be consistent :)
Thanks to Borys's invite (and after a hectic Drill weekend), I'm here.
I'm pretty much along for the ride on the debates as to when we start and what the maps look like and the rules. I'll trust 'older and wiser heads' on that one (though I'd love to see a CSA on the map). I'm just anxious to get started.
Just don't beat up on the Newbie too much. ;)
CSA is present and needs a leader, ask Swampy for more information. And welcome!