I've been throwing this idea around in my head for a while, but only just recently tried to piece it together. It's a role play set in a fictional region in Latin America beginning in Age of Exploration. There's some character role playing, but it also has elements of nation-building.
Essentially, you're all playing the leader of an expedition. Whether you're English, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, or something else - you've been sponsored by a European power to colonize the New World. Your first task is to find a suitable landing site for your colony. You'll make landfall, survey the area, and prepare basic shelters and fortifications, as well as secure vital sources of food and other supplies.
Once this phase is over more settlers will arrive at your colony. They will increase your population with farmers, craftsmen, missionaries, merchants, and soldiers. You will also receive supplies to actually build a proper settlement. This colony becomes your hub/capital.
Now, your home country sent you to the New World to find economic opportunities. It's time to start looking for silver and gold, or clearing the land for plantations to grow lucrative crops like cotton, tobacco, etc. You'll be contending with the natives and other players. Will you work together to push the natives back? Will you incorporate them into your population? Will you enslave them? Will you work with other players on this, or try and fight them? Ultimately, you're looking to establish smaller settlements where silver and gold can be mined, or places with fertile land that can grow cotton, sugar, tobacco, and other crops.
These raw materials will be sent back to your hub to be loaded onto ships bound for the home country - which in turn drops off luxury and manufactured goods for your colonists.
Ultimately, you may start to develop industries here. Rather than export cotton, you may develop textile mills to process the raw material and start exporting cloth. In time you may wish to break free from your home country's grasp and declare independence and together with other players fight in a revolution.
Essentially, you're all playing the leader of an expedition. Whether you're English, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, or something else - you've been sponsored by a European power to colonize the New World. Your first task is to find a suitable landing site for your colony. You'll make landfall, survey the area, and prepare basic shelters and fortifications, as well as secure vital sources of food and other supplies.
Once this phase is over more settlers will arrive at your colony. They will increase your population with farmers, craftsmen, missionaries, merchants, and soldiers. You will also receive supplies to actually build a proper settlement. This colony becomes your hub/capital.
Now, your home country sent you to the New World to find economic opportunities. It's time to start looking for silver and gold, or clearing the land for plantations to grow lucrative crops like cotton, tobacco, etc. You'll be contending with the natives and other players. Will you work together to push the natives back? Will you incorporate them into your population? Will you enslave them? Will you work with other players on this, or try and fight them? Ultimately, you're looking to establish smaller settlements where silver and gold can be mined, or places with fertile land that can grow cotton, sugar, tobacco, and other crops.
These raw materials will be sent back to your hub to be loaded onto ships bound for the home country - which in turn drops off luxury and manufactured goods for your colonists.
Ultimately, you may start to develop industries here. Rather than export cotton, you may develop textile mills to process the raw material and start exporting cloth. In time you may wish to break free from your home country's grasp and declare independence and together with other players fight in a revolution.
