Letter Bee

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He's simply putting them on in what sounds like a means to get me off his back like he's stapling "character flaw" to a cutout.

I'm not blind.

@Dinh AaronMk

Yes, my point is that I did the same before, and was made more stubborn by people being harsh. Heck, I was even hypocritically aggressive at other people who did the same things I have, with little reason to be so.

I mean, you're not exactly losing your temper, but I am just wary that we might turn off a potential player who's passionate and enthusiastic for all their flaws.

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>Nationalize cottage industry

Excuse me, but how do you expect the state to seize someone's homes and for this to work?

Honestly, reviewing the app it reads more like you're tacking on what I'm saying and not really critically applying any or much of it. It's at the stage that if you really want to be someone in southern Russia does it really need to be a liberal democracy? Frankly, the military order would be more capable of asserting itself. A Kuban Hetmanate would be more viable in the area given the relatively powerful political position of the Cossacks in the area.

@Dinh AaronMk

Hey, I used to do the same; I still do with some of my character-based RPs. It's sometimes hard to give one's nation believable flaws, all right?

Life in a different world [A Re:Zero setting / Fantasy RP] (Accepting!)

Alexander Sky

Alexander would look at Vesta and say; "The Elk Girl has a fairly powerful Divine Protection; colored green. She also has two contracted Spirits bound to her with colored strings. Also, I have some food, perhaps I can - oh, she's allowed in; that's truly noble."

Alexander was awed by Vesta's kindness and her freedom from the prejudice common in Lugnica. He then followed Vesta further in, his loyalty to his new employer reaffirmed. As they reached the meeting room, Alexander chose a seat that was not too far, but not too close to where Vesta sat, and accepted the tea and pastries that were offered to him; it has been a long time since he had something sweet that wasn't honey cakes or fruit. It was clear that despite initial reservations, Alexander was going to do just fine with his new employer...though only if he avoided meeting with her father.

@Lunarlors34@ADamnFiddle[@Reikagan]@FamishedPants

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Greetings!

(I have been unable to find an OCC thread for this...? But I will move this comment to whatever thread is correct if this isn't the right spot)

I have been keeping up with this RP for some time now, and really like where it has evolved to.

Would it be possible to join the RP? If at all possible I respectfully submit my candidacy for the Congo (specifically a state comrpised of several areas within the greater Congo area)

Thank you for your consideration.

LM

@Lord Moria

There is an 'OOC Tab' at the top of the thread itself.

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@Dinh AaronMk, @Inkwell:

Perhaps Inkwell's nation could come to a settlement with the Kuban and Terek Cossack Hosts somehow? Perhaps by playing them against each other? Inkwell's nation's diplomats can say to the Kuban and Terek that their country can serve as a buffer zone between them and that if they are taken over by either Cossack host, then said Cossack host will become a threat to the other?

Dawn of The Coming Storm (Co-GMed with Eklispe this time!)

Judith cursed as she saw the Attack Wolf grab the flag, and drew out a saber from her dimensional pocket, chopping off the construct's head and turning said construct back into Raw Mana. Let's just say that it was not getting away. That said, Akyna would get the magical energy she had spent back once the construct was destroyed; she shouldn't worry about that.

Glancing back at the flag, Judith would then see Alma grabbing it with a spell, before throwing herself into the portal meant to put her back into square one. A brief flash of pride as she knew that loss or not, her team's defeat was fair and that's all that mattered. Grabbing her phone just as Alma (presumably) got the flag, Judith would call the other team to say:

"Congratulations, you won. Celebratory snacks have been prepared back at the hotel; sorry for preventing you from socializing earlier. We might also have a new member, Logan Adley; he's an Underworld Mage."

@Senhara@MagnetBolt@Dead Cruiser@Scarifar@Ceta de Cloyes

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@Inkwell, Hmm, question: what interests you about southern Russia, exactly?

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That is a possibility but it seems that Armenia would have its own problems and might not be in a position to help. Nor might it be willing with the bad blood from all the Russian imagrants/refugees.

@Inkwell

Well, it's going to have a new President who might be willing to help if it creates a 'safe zone' that refugees can return to...

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@Inkwell
You're looking better on your new app, but there's new glaring issues. Particularly in regards to the treatment of the local economy.

Typically speaking for Russia a lot of the industry is focused in the more populated north. Southern Russia, particularly in the mountains is focused primarily on resource extraction in a hand full of minerals (copper, lead, etc) which would have been sent out of the area to where the factories are, western Russia. Even given the Soviet Union in our history they didn't industrially develop the region and Sochi in general isn't and hasn't ever been a strong industrial city and has developed more as a tourism center and for agriculture (Sochi is the only place in Russia that grows tea as I'm aware).

Your app treats the region as being very stable and at a well developed, stable state. But you forget that the area has been at war with itself for seven years and poorer parts of Russia like the south would be poorer still. They'd be incapable of launching large-scale earth work projects like the fort line you said they built to keep a hold on the territory. And they certainly wouldn't have or would have very limited industrial capacity to do it.

Further, conflict in a region or a country often leads to a brain-drain effect. See the middle east in the 20th century or even Syria today when many middle-class professionals opted to escape the country and region at the head of warfare. Being a part of an unstable region does not lead itself to investment opportunities, and CEOs would have abandoned Russia for the more stable west when war broke out. They would have been followed by the scientists as threat of someone's lab being raided by paramilitaries looking for supplies or shit to sell to fund themselves, or just general banditry and looting and heavily weakened services from a lack of finance and a broken economy would leave them unprotected.

You seem to be handling your app more as if it were a well established real country as opposed to an unsettled local-state as would be expected in the post-Apocalypse. Self defense wouldn't come with expensive and industrial fortifications but from shifting alliances. Or in the setting of PoW: foreign aid and interference.

If you want to be a strong industrial nation in PoW, and in PoW's Russia you got to work for that.

@Dinh AaronMk

@Inkwell, note though that perhaps you can get Armenian help from @TheEvanCat if you still want to play Southern Russia?

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I'll stay on the record saying that forcing this particular level of division is arbitrary and will only serve to hamper people's ability to organically develop a Russian storyline.

@Vilageidiotx

And also turn off people from wanting to join us or play with us.

Aaron has a point about the flat terrain in the north, though.