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Mantido said
I can remove those, although Gowia might want to take it out of my submitted sheet entirely. My intention was a big focus on artillery to compensate for the complete and utter lack of air power that I have, since it seems unlikely that AA guns wouldn't be under swift development given the presence of functional airships.

I think some kind of AA is probably likely, though its probably still cannon like, because lets be honest, air ships are going to be pretty slow and you want to be hitting them with enough force to knock out their balloons and bring them tumbling, since the balloons probably picked up a bit of armour

@Feigling

The trouble is, no ones sure. I think this is supposed to be light steam punk though, so arc pylons and walls of light probably aren't making appearances xD I could see steam powers boats existing, though might not be at the start, depending on Gowia's word.

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duck55223 said
UuuuuuuuuuuhUhhhhhhBecause everyone was fighting over Edoniras.

But that makes no sense, explorers aren't always in a government payroll and by such a period governments would have thought to try and send explorers further out.

Also, Muskets in WW1... What?

Muskets were out long before that. Which also raises the question of why anyone is using muskets, and Kabaan isn't just behind but behind to the point of complete irrelevance... And we haven't a single colony anywhere.

Adding airships and having the industrial revolution early would be a steam punk spin, closer to the light steam punk it seems we were meant to be heading for considering mentions of muskets etc. I don't think we need to jump to 1870-1900 or near because we have airships and an industrial revolution.

Also, lets wait for Gowia should we? He's probably the one with the most knowledge on where shouts we should be and whether we should be using breech loaders from 1870 or have rifles as being widespread etc.

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duck55223 said
I think were somewhere at the level of 1870s, with some areas being a bit behind.If you are interested in Iron-ships and steamers though, it really shouldnt be to hard. Technology is there, just invest some money into it.

Well, the problem is we are running imperialism... And no native is going to manage anything if we have 1870's-1900'a tech. It also sort of negates the purpose of having tech advancement at all... We're being imperialist towards the end of the Age of Imperialism. It also beggars the question of if we are this so far ahead, why are we only now finding the new world?

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Commodore Robot said
That just seems supremely goofy to me. I would certainly like some hard definitions on what's going in this world so my brain can be put at ease.

Precisely. I have no clue where we are at, because our tech ranges from 1700's to 1870, :/

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Commodore Robot said
Here's where most of my confusion is coming from. The industrial revolution didn't happen til the new world wasn't new anymore. Plus if we've got steamships(which we should unless airships use sail and muscle power) and airships and what have you I'd imagine some other things are more advanced as well. All of that got me convinced we're going the imperialism route not the colonialism route: at least aesthetically

Honestly I blame the disproportionate advance of the airships for the odd mess of tech. If we have supposedly managed to get these airships made of metal we would have metal boats, but we don't. Steampunk means we get new steam tech and such, airships etc. Rifles don't run of steam. When you're using rifles which are using mechanisms from the late 1800's, its not aesthetic

Honestly, we should set a proper tech level. I was still thinking we were 1700's like the last time (We had the industrial revolution underway then, I cant remember how we justified it but all other tech was mostly 1700's) with airships, not using Breech loading rifles etc.

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Commodore Robot said
I figured we were doing second stage colonialism. Yknow imperialism the scramble for Africa, partition of china all that fun stuff.

Considering there hasn't been a single new world discovered, that makes a second stage hard doesn't it...?

The intro says we've been fighting over this land, not having found another, and that mystery surrounds it. Sounds early colonialism, tbh. That would mean we're entering the industrial revolution and just beginning colonialism, so not the late 1800's tech we're seeing.

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Gowia, what is the tech period? I thought we were still 1700's with some steampunk in, given that we were just entering colonialism. Some people are using rifles from the later 1800's. I thought the idea was for tech to advance as we go along, not start at the end of colonialism.

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Feigling said
Still accepting?

I don't think so, you'll have to ask Gowia

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Asura said
>Rebels everywhere.It's a good day to be a stormtrooper.

Opportunities everywhere for the more aggressive, it seems. Pseudo Russia is gonna use its troops to put down the rebels, I'm guessing?

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Keyguyperson said
I suddenly feel extremely threatened by those dice of yours. Let's hope that those two disasters got all the bad rolls out. No reward for the guy who figures out who's getting attacked first!

Ikr

Speaking of which Gowia, presumably we will get the reasons for the unrest and rebellions in the opening post? I want to settle my protesters before they become incensed by bloodlust and I end up like HKE or the BK