[@Ashgan]


Nations don't exist in the same linear issues as a person, which is why typically stories that focus on nations tend to turn into never ending posting sprees. Nations tend to be a win or lose scenario or effectively, they fall into a stable state for a long period. Even if that stable state is bad, poor or even just unsung. It's stable for the greater community.


I think, though brother that you're onto a point here, man. Maybe we're looking too deep into this. Perhaps the there should just a be a simple "end date" where if you're nation isn't clearly victorious it just cements into whatever state it is in for the next couple of generations until there is a continuation of story.

 AKA: if you're nation is poor and the end date comes. You're nation for the time between this RP end and the next continued RP is one of a poor nation and all of its previous struggles.


That way we got the "clear end/victory" conditions that mean people got to act in a certain time limit-lets say..for example..every X posts represents X years-





In terms of tone I notice that two things happen in sci-fi RP. Normally people tend to abuse time, mass and nano bot stuff like crazy. It sort of gets silly with what these people can do. This isn't silly if it was say..a weird alien...low tech race that had this gimmick at its central method of power-like say..an alien horde- but for guys with guns and the net, it tends to get a bit much.

Second is that, a lot of time when building cities. People tend to build a city or nation for an ideology that they have a fetish for. Which typically stops it from being properly stained by its own logical issues by OOC bias.


Solution:


Put an end date.


Put a tech cap.


Declare a clear scenario: I'd suggest that the battle take place on the native planet with maybe some space battles for some nearby asteroids/ mineral planetoid around it. It will be easier to boil down a general tone on a single planet where you're either an invade, refugee, weird abnormally or system home species in their own political vices.


Edit: Excuse the loose goose. I'm posting after just waking up from a dream weirder than a celebrities love life.