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Precipice of War

Time to do something that the Precipicers will be familar with. A wordcount!

For references, This is the original MCF thread. There was also a sporum thread, it is older... but i'm not messing with that.

So, I actually went ahead and tallied the specific wordcounts of a sample set of pages, which gave me this

(page): (wordcount)
5: 2445
25: 8134
50:10013
75: 7407
100:22,756
137: 33,036

An interesting note: Page 137, the last completed page in the MCF, has a long enough word count to count as a novelette.

Averaging that gave me an average word count pet page of ~13965, which in turn gave me an average post count (since there is 20 posts per page) of 698. This is below my 750 guess I used during the last post counts, so our semi-scientific end result is now only ~1.91 million words.

So what is 1.91 million words?

http://www.cesspit.net/drupal/node/1869

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is 473k words, making Precipice MCF four times as long. Precipice also just slightly passes ASOIAF, the Game of Thrones books, beating their 1.77m wordcount by roughly 140k words. We also beat the Dark Tower series's 1.25k length by 660k words.

To give a visual, this...



Is somewhere between 530k and 560k (depending on the translation and how much fluff they cut, and I don't know what version this picture is). That would be roughly a little more than a quarter the size of Precipice.

Now, the big difference of course is that MCF precipice is a mess. A lot of it is shit posts, a lot of it is shit writing, and there are plenty of dead end stories and unnecessary fluff. None the same, this should help explain to newcomers why we are coming to this with so much in terms of oddly specific rules and baggage. We are cutting a lot of the canon, so don't worry about having to know much about the old thread. We will tell you what is important.

...and if you are wondering, no, we don't expect anybody to read all that. It would be insane if you tried.

Precipice of War - Oh Woe the West

Looked up Sevan...



Looks like what would happen if all the trees in Chernobyl walked off.

Precipice of War - Oh Woe the West

Yeh, that's the jist of what I plan to do.

Though it's Sahle having fallen asleep listening to it after doing some drug or another, so it will be less boring monotone explanation and more fever dream.

Precipice of War - Oh Woe the West

I say his assassination should have happened just a few weeks before. Official version of events would be "Heart attack."

I'm thinking my first post will be an intro post (ideally the first post in IC if I am allowed the honor) where Team Sahle is camped outside of Sevan and getting high while listening to the news.

After that, I figured the best way to introduce the most major characters is some major victory parade where all the major players in Ethiopian politics turn out.

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Dinh AaronMk said
At the same time it reminds people that they can't pull soldiers out of their ass and increase gameyness when there's nothing keeping some from having an infinite supply of men.

Eh, I think for the most part we halfass the number and forget it. It's the way we rp once we've started, not the fake statistics we pull out of our ass at a moments notice and promptly forget, that really do that.

Landfall: A

We're still a tad disorganized from moving forums right now.

Glad you liked the story though! And we are definitely digging your forum.

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AlienBastard said
The population thing seems to be a bit odd to me at points since I thought places like Han China, the incans and the romans had tens of millions of people. Than again chances are no one like romans, incas or chinese in terms of power and size are allowed in this RP.Also gorgen what of PM?

The Romans and Han Chinese ruled over very large regions in comparison to what we have going on. As for the Incans, I don't think their population was ever very high.

And the population thing is going to be off. It's sort of silly, because we will never use it, so all the population section will contribute is pointless arguments.

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Pepperm1nts said
I see there's a bunch of new posts, get excited to think it might be from new people interested, but it's just all of you talking shit.:I

Just like old times.

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Deltas are always better for farming, but three fresh water lakes with a direct river connection to a coast does speak toward a trade epicenter. If there is a place for a Novgorod, it would be there.

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Dinh AaronMk said
Given that's the steppe region without much in the way for farming or long-term settlement the population would most likely be lower than normal. Though you're a bit on the big side ~1m would have been an average. Though also given the area I doubt there'd be much going on to support a static population a quarter or half that. Most of anything else would be nomadic bands just moving through with their goats or horses or what not.So a few hundred thousand maybe spread between a few permanent settlements and the rest moving around would be my best guess.

Those lakes would be fresh water since they are attached to a river system that feeds the ocean. That means that the area he has marked off won't look like the Gobi. It would be more like the area where the deep midwest meets the Great plains. More Iowa than Mongolia.