Greetings all,

The board has been fairly quiet for some time.

So what is the status of the reboot?

Sorry, I got hit with a family issue that took the wind out of my sails on a lot of things. Will assess where we are and what needs to be done.

We just need Nations Threads to start to work on the Navy, Army, Governement, Technos...

Ok, thets get this ball rolling. If you care about why I basically up and vanished for a while, that's below. I apologize for doing that, its unacceptable and I will do my best to keep better engaged. I think at this point a good start date is to aim for early July, so by July 1st can everyone have the following items prepared and ready.

--Startup data, like Walter has posted here.
--Ship designs you are considering.
--Other data you want/need for getting rolling.

Once everyone has a chance to get that stuff together, we will set a firm start date and get going. Nothing posted will be considered carved-in-stone until later, so if you end up needing to make some minor changes it's alright. I'm sure there are a few rules things that still need to be finalized or corrected, so if you run across anything like that, please let me know.

For those who want to know, I found out back in March that my parents are getting divorced. There was a period from October to then when I knew something was wrong, but it was still news I didn't really see coming. I didn't really handle it all that well from a personal mental health perspective and became really unmotivated to do much outside of my routine. Not an excuse, as I should have handled it better, but an explanation.

So I'm late to the party, and reluctant to commit to anything give my generally insane level of business, but... The map intrigues me. Is the intention to keep matters close to Europe and Middle east and just have the occasional NPC on other continents?

There is a world map floating around somewhere (paging Cartographer Walter) that has the major NPC nations that exist. Seeing as I actually bothered to qualify how colonization works the intent is getting to play the colonies game with steel ships instead of wood ones.

Ah ok. I can see from my cursory examination that it's like that N. America would be a blank slate. Well except that the native peoples of the Americas might present a bit of a problem. :-)

I'd expect that China would also be formidable, there's probably some interesting NPCs in the Subcontinent, and potential for an interesting back story with Japan too.

The map (again, as I recall it) has several major NPC powers who fall on the spectrum of being able to resist the player nations but are unwilling or unable to build significant enough naval assets to be considered player nations. From a design standpoint, its to give the player nations something to interact with aside from each other in the colonies game as well as provide a buffer to direct overland expansion.

I found this post:
https://www.navalism.org/index.php/topic,6992.msg89677.html#msg89677

Which I think is the one you were referring to.

Quotepaging Cartographer Walter

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Cartographer Walter is currently unavailable due to being KO from having to get up at 3:00 AM in order to start at 4:00 AM for his new job.
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Random thought: real role play, while I enjoy it, likely would result in other players waiting for me. But what if I were to contribute NPC "reference" ships? A standard BB, AC, PC, and DD that would be what we'd use to fill up NPC's paltry inventories if and when they are needed? This would scratch my mess with SS itch.

I would not be opposed to such. Let me think on details.

Quote from: Guinness on July 07, 2017, 07:15:59 PM
Random thought: real role play, while I enjoy it, likely would result in other players waiting for me. But what if I were to contribute NPC "reference" ships? A standard BB, AC, PC, and DD that would be what we'd use to fill up NPC's paltry inventories if and when they are needed? This would scratch my mess with SS itch.

I like it.
Plus I'd nominate a "budget" to purchase vessels from foreign nations. Those RFP bits are always fun.

...and everything east of the Red Sea is MINE....muhahhaahhahahahahha

Who are you and why are you reading my mind regarding NPCs?