[quote=@Kho]but I think Cyclone is referring more to what happened before we started RPing and meddling with mortal affairs - i.e how long, in Galbar time, did it take to create humans? How much history did they have from their creation until the IC point where we started playing around with them? I think at one point we came to the conclusion that it had been a few weeks, but then managed to extend that (with some effort so as not to contradict the IC) to ten or so years, which is obviously ridiculous in many ways.[/quote]

Yup, that was it. I remember now.

[quote]And I think that one of the main reasons the human population never really managed to get beyond the thousands on Arguilla was mainly because: Dyun, Cimex, Eternal Night, and then the constant warring xD[/quote]

Well, maybe things will be better if somebody actually intervenes against Vestec. :lol

[quote]It will become an issue where, for instance, we're midway through a story-arc and someone decides to create a new species - would that new creature just pop up randomly, fully developed, there and then? Or will there be an implication that they had always existed in some way but had only now emerged as sentient beings? Because it would be an issue where you have to wait thousands/millions of years for every new living creation to develop fully. Ideas?

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But if we, as players, come to the agreement that we first need to develop the planet before going on a 'sentient races and heroes crazy', then I'm fine by removing those initial level limitations.[/quote]

I had the idea to almost immediately create a bunch of sentient elementals and spirits to serve my air god and eventually become lesser, local deities for the various civilizations that see them.

Discussing creations OOC before dropping them IC might be a good way to go about things. Really I don't have that much of a problem with suddenly creating things so long as it's carefully done so as to not force us into an awkward position like what happened when it was decided that humans were created ten years before the start of the heroes' and demigods' rampage. Going off the example from your quote, to explain the sudden arrival of elves it might make sense to say that instead of instantly making some new race and dropping them from the sky, they were created/evolved on another planet over a long time in parallel with what was going on with Galbar (same name again?) and were brought over by their god. Or used magic to reach Galbar themselves.