[OOC] The New Empires

[GreivousKhan]

I judge my landmass roughly the size of current day Spain, and used the lower end of the scale for density of population calculations, just shy of the lowest.

And I'm not sure on what's too big, given the shear amount of land still open, and not having any idea on how many players will be allowed in this.

[TheSovereignGrave]

Monkeypants said
When I postedmy first location, dihn and I talked area. My original nation was about the size of modern day Kazakhstan. If you look at a map of Asia, you'll notice that Kazakhstan isn't that small.

Its a good reference to judge land, just use my nation which is roughly 3/4 the size of Kazakhstan.

Also if any one chooses elves as their nation, expect instant distrust. Prejudice

But that's racist! The elves of Hanartha are completely different from your elves!

[Monkeypants]

Extremely racist but what fun is there if every one ishappy and trusting :)

I can't see the picture of the juhan leader. Laaame.

[Dinh AaronMk]

GreivousKhan said
I judge my landmass roughly the size of current day Spain, and used the lower end of the scale for density of population calculations, just shy of the lowest.And I'm not sure on what's too big, given the shear amount of land still open, and not having any idea on how many players will be allowed in this.

Feigling I remembered posted saying that the land was about the size of Asia. I don't know if that was supposed to be in regards to the left-hand landmass or not, but I assumed it is.

My kingdom I wrote at being just a bit larger than the Kingdom of Kongo, by roughly 10,000 square kilometers (but with these people I'm not dealing in absolutes given they don't think to claim an absolute value and deal arbitrarily with territorial lands). This in all makes it a bit smaller than Cambodia, which is at something like 50,000 square kilometers. Using that as my measure I took a map of Asia (This one, actually) and blew it up to roughly fit (or to get Cambodia to roughly fit to a rough scale over the Satyr state) as best I could with PaintToolSAI, rotated it too, and put Cambodia over top my state to get an idea and hung it over a few others to get a rough idea of how they compare.

That's how I scaled things at least. I plugged in a value in my app so there's a base for size and we have something to be relative to; even if vague.

EDIT - and recreating this - though I should just keep this all as one file - you're not so much the size of Spain as you are the about size of India. With Bangladesh and Burma thrown in for good measure.

[Monkeypants]

Question : is my app accepted in its current state? I plan on adding a few more cities and some additional people but that be fluff for the most part.

Just wondering that before I add a.ny thing new

[Dinh AaronMk]

Monkeypants said
Question : is my app accepted in its current state? I plan on adding a few more cities and some additional people but that be fluff for the most part. Just wondering that before I add a.ny thing new

Well you said you'd reduce the size of your Empire and I'm not sure if you did that. And the Sky Knights thing is still there...

And given I'd like to have seen a simpler app format since it's all more-or-less fluff anyways: I personally don't care. I'm more than likely to add way more significant people than asked in the application, settlements, and other things. At that point it'll likely turn into a Precipice of War fact-sheet, keeping more a log on the things I introduce so I have stuff to refer to myself.

EDIT - I checked and it does seem a lot smaller. So you're OK given territory.

[ASTA]

>PoW

[Dinh AaronMk]

ASTA said
>PoW

Three years running and the only alt-history RP I care about at this point.

[Monkeypants]

Yeah I just haven't been at a desktop in a day or so. Using a phone so Editing long posts is completely impossible .. hell getting two paragrapghs to fit is a chore in its own right!

As with the app.. I shrunk the given format down and still had that much stuff lol. Imagine if i had described individual weapons! Anyway, thanks for the ok.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Yup.

[Monkeypants]

So has any one made any progress?

[Dinh AaronMk]

In so far as I can tell, still a lot of Work in Progresses. There's only yours and one other completed app.

[TheSovereignGrave]

I'm working on mine, I'm just having the same trouble that I always do. Actually putting my thoughts and ideas down into words on the app can be difficult.

EDIT: And Frontliner, if you're still having trouble trying to get a map up what I usually do is save the image of the map and then open it in Microsoft Paint and draw my borders.

[Sadko]

A mercenary government! You can hire my snake people to fight in your wars <:

[Dinh AaronMk]

I think the number of WIP sections in apps is saying a lot about the given application and how it should really be simplified further. But that's me speaking.

Anyways, I was looking to see if at least one other person finished their application. But a lot are still lingering with a lot of "WIP" sections. So I'mma with hold saying "accepted" on those until they're done. However, I see Lancer Dancer is the only other guy but me and MonkeyPants to submit a finished application. So between us three we're accepted and I suppose this might be a good place for me to say to go ahead with the IC posts. Keeping this locked indefinitely to OOC banter isn't at all healthy. So when you're feeling ready Lancer and Monkey can work on an IC post, I'll get down to an introduction on my end.

The only thing I want to say about Lancer's app is that I don't think anything as well intended or so conceivably perfectly structured as his faction operates as intended, and it's likely at this point there would be a lot of hypocrisy in the administration. I also await the moments that things become so morally gray they become dysfunctional.

[TwistedSun]

Dinh AaronMk said
I think the number of WIP sections in apps is saying a lot about the given application and how it should really be simplified further. But that's me speaking.Anyways, I was looking to see if at least one other person finished their application. But a lot are still lingering with a lot of "WIP" sections. So I'mma with hold saying "accepted" on those until they're done. However, I see Lancer Dancer is the only other guy but me and MonkeyPants to submit a finished application. So between us three we're accepted and I suppose this might be a good place for me to say to go ahead with the IC posts. Keeping this locked indefinitely to OOC banter isn't at all healthy. So when you're feeling ready Lancer and Monkey can work on an IC post, I'll get down to an introduction on my end.The only thing I want to say about Lancer's app is that I don't think anything as well intended or so conceivably perfectly structured as his faction operates as intended, and it's likely at this point there would be a lot of hypocrisy in the administration. I also await the moments that things become so morally gray they become dysfunctional.

I've been procrastinating the application unfortunately, but I think it should soon be completed. For example today I added a big chuck to industry, government and (most important thing on my advice) organized what I've written till now and what is going to be composed in a clear QQCodes format. I suppose this is the right path to follow ^^

[Monkeypants]

We got two big ass nations at this point, twisted and grievous. And they are surrounding me lol.

Kind of feel like Poland right before nazi Germany and Russian annexed it.

Edit; on a side note. Ill be fixing my ns tomorrow to get rid of the knights and add a couple characters ..ill start on an ic post as well. Happy to see this start

[Dinh AaronMk]

Well Grievous estimates at being about the size of Spain is off, as I said earlier. So there may need to be a revision to downsize that, or at least complicate the politic of the state more. The larger something gets the more ethnic groups it takes in which don't often act happy to their overlord.

It's more the size of India which was only really united once before the British Raj, as far as I can remember. Though a warlike nation would certainly explain it.

[TheSovereignGrave]

Not to mention I feel like it's mostly sparsely inhabited wasteland. Though if that's true, he may need to lower his population a bit.

Anyway, I got some more stuff up on my sheet in case anyone was curious. Now I just need the Culture and History down. A pity there's nobody too near me to collaborate with a history on. The closest are Aaron and Frontliner, and they're hardly close.

[Dinh AaronMk]

TheSovereignGrave said
Not to mention I feel like it's mostly sparsely inhabited wasteland. Though if that's true, he may need to lower his population a bit.Anyway, I got some more stuff up on my sheet in case anyone was curious. Now I just need the Culture and History down. A pity there's nobody too near me to collaborate with a history on. The closest are Aaron and Frontliner, and they're hardly .

Based on the geographic description it sort of sounds like Mordor, or most or enough of it is under enough threat of volcanic gas and being wasted that not many people would actively choose to live there. So it may be geographically impressive, but it isn't impressive in terms of population.