STGOD! OOC Thread.

Silence · Post by **Silence** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 7:44 am

I'd returned back to my hometown for Christmas only to find myself drafted to fill in a personal gap in my mother's flowershop, I'll be posting once I extricate myself from being forced to deliver 12 hours a day :p

Screwball · Post by **Screwball** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 8:28 am

Having a bit of difficulty thinking up a a first post, so I've taken the easy route and written a 'response' to Frigid's letter. Next time, I'll do something more original.

Charon · Post by **Charon** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:22 am

I'm going to enjoy watching the two of you play this game.

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 4:45 pm

That was well written Screwball, props.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:39 am

OOB will be up Christmas night. Been working 14 hours days (retail) so my sleep has been curtailed rather severely the last few says.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 3:18 am

Merry Christmas everyone.

And yes, I call tanks "armoured tractors" in Pacifica, because "tank" was purely a result of its development in WWI and the alternative "barrel", affiliated as it is with Turtledove, resulted in a friend threatening to strangle me over the internet.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:12 am

Upish. Happy Christmastime whatever I have work in the morning : (.

Slacker · Post by **Slacker** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 5:10 pm

Sorry guys, internet's been absolutely shitacular at work this last weekend, wasn't able to get my post up until now. The whole 'work 40 hours in 3.5 days' thing means that I'm generally not going to be posted in my downtime between Thursday and Sunday evenings, as the blessed oblivion of slumber tends to fill my plans.

Academia Nut · Post by **Academia Nut** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 8:18 pm

Nothing like a little international incident to poke things along.

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 10:33 pm

Klavohunter
LoneStar
Silence
Hadri
Sunhawk

You all need to post a game post.

If Angelod doesn't post his OOB midnight (In his time that'll be 2 and an half hours I think) he's gone.

Hadrianvs · Post by **Hadrianvs** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 4:23 pm

frigidmagi wrote:You all need to post a game post.

I'm having the most terrible case of writer's block. It's one thing when you don't know what to write, but in this case I know exactly what I want to describe, but whenever I try to my brain locks up, which makes it doubly frustrating.

I'll see if I can finish something today, if not I have a rather less ambitious idea for a first post that I could alternatively use.

If Angelod doesn't post his OOB midnight (In his time that'll be 2 and an half hours I think) he's gone.

So, this means we lost the African power south of Ethiopia? Guess the colonial powers down there will be feeling a bit relieved.

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 4:51 pm

Nope Angelod was playing the South American power north of Lonestar.

Hadrianvs · Post by **Hadrianvs** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 6:53 pm

frigidmagi wrote:Nope Angelod was playing the South American power north of Lonestar.

Ah, pity then. South America might be a tad lonely with only one player nation making it their home.

Hadrianvs · Post by **Hadrianvs** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:21 am

Well, I got over my writer's block and had most of a draft for a post drawn up before fortunate circumstances caused my computer to be shut down without warning. Normally I say the loss of a full page's worth of writing is unfortunate, but the mentioned circumstances involved getting pounced on by a horny girl. I'm sure you all understand.

In other news...

Havoc, why did you remove the message? Okay, that's rethorical. I think I know the exact reason. It's a pretty clever attempt to bring roleplaying into real life, if you weren't there when it was broadcast to read it, then you missed it and it sucks for you. That's a pretty neat idea, and I give you props for it. The problem is that it is unreasonable to expect other players to treat forum posts like radio messages. I kind of expect a bit of permanency from forum posts; hence why I am not in the habit of making copies of information I wish to review later. I would, in fact, be rather surprised if anyone at all bothered to write it down. So I saw the message, but I can't reply to it because I am not sure if I remember the details correctly and have nothing to reference. This is... annoying.

Hadrianvs · Post by **Hadrianvs** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:40 am

I apologize for triple postage, but in my experience nobody but me ever checks posts they've already read for edit. Since Cynical Cat just posted, it probably means he read my last post, which also probably means this message directed specifically at him would not get noticed unless I make a separate entry for it.

Cynical Cat, the Russians and Vasans have, in fact, fought a war with modern weapons. I don't know if anyone else was involved, and we never decided on a specific time frame, but it was very much a WWI replay for us. Here's a covenient before and after mappings:

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/7518/oldborderb.png

Old border in red, new border in blue.The dashed part in the Ukraine indicates the border is an approximation, as there just weren't enough landmarks in the map for me to draw it exactly.

The current border closely matches the front line around the time an armistice was agreed to, with a few adjustments agreed upon by the diplomats.

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:55 am

Posts should either be posted or not. Deleting posts does not sit well with me. If you want to fuck with people, there are many easier ways that don't involve removing things.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:03 am

Hadrianvs wrote:
Cynical Cat, the Russians and Vasans have, in fact, fought a war with modern weapons. I don't know if anyone else was involved, and we never decided on a specific time frame, but it was very much a WWI replay for us. Here's a covenient before and after mappings:

That's fine. I said "major" with "modern" and as a quick look at my OOB will confirm I have a fair amount of mechanized troops and air support. So

(1) If it WWI reboot, then tanks and airplanes played comparatively minor rolls and so "modern" might not apply.

(2) If you want your history taken into account, post it publicly. Don't decide in chat with one person and then expect the rest of us to agree to it or take it into consideration.

Hadrianvs · Post by **Hadrianvs** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:38 am

Cynical Cat wrote:If you want your history taken into account, post it publicly. Don't decide in chat with one person and then expect the rest of us to agree to it or take it into consideration.

It didn't occur to me that my history would be relevant to anyone but my neighbors. I see I was wrong.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:46 am

Hadrianvs wrote:
Cynical Cat wrote:If you want your history taken into account, post it publicly. Don't decide in chat with one person and then expect the rest of us to agree to it or take it into consideration.
It didn't occur to me that my history would be relevant to anyone but my neighbors. I see I was wrong.

(1) I live in your neighborhood

(2) It's relevant to everyone. If Russia and the Mughal Empire have fought five major wars over two hundred years (to make up a wild, but not completely insane example), it affects everyone whose foreign policy touches upon anything within the Russian or Mughal sphere of interest.

General Havoc · Post by **General Havoc** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:47 am

This was not some ploy to deprive people of information. I removed the bulk of the post because I had never intended to post it all in the first place. The message was supposed to go direct to France (and did), and I somehow crossed my windows and accidentally dumped the entire thing into the IC thread as well. As soon as I realized that I had done so, I removed it, save for the bit about the message actually going out

Anyone who has the capacity to intercept/decode it can simply let me know, and I'll give them a copy of it.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:34 pm

Cat's right, Hadri, such things in the history are in fact rather important. A recent, WWI-style war would've gotten the attention of armies around the world with the showcasing of new weapons and eventually tactics.

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:40 pm

Alright folks we are offically in March-Apirl. You may start your first build orders. If anyone has questions on how the industrial system work PM me. You do have to post some flavor has to what you're building but you don't have to make everything detailed and public, a PM to the mods will work. Screwball you would want to PM Charon instead of me.

Klavo, Lonestar, Hadri and Silence if I do not get a post from you by the end of this week, you're out of the game. You're suppose to do at least 1 post a week and two weeks have gone by without anything in the game thread from y'all.

I still need someone to do the Chinese minor states *looks* If you're a non Asian power you should be volunteering. Thanks go to Cat, Steve, Marcoa and Windswept for having made NPCs. I appreicate your hard work guys.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:53 pm

Hrm? I thought the first build orders were as of game start. And I figured they were public so I put them in my Main Info post along with my vitals and my OrBat and stuff.

Some stuff really would be "public" in terms of what's being built, I think - you're not going to easily hide the mass allotments of steel for a warship, or big orders to plants and factories producing military trucks. That said, I presume we can hide our research directions and simply inform the mods of what we're doing there?

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:58 pm

I told you twice we were holding that until after the first 2 months, I wanted to give people time to get set up. Like I said you do have to make some post giving an vauge idea of what you're building, beyond that is up to you.

Screwball · Post by **Screwball** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:03 pm

I'd volunteer, but I couldn't resist the temptation to turn my neighbors into juicy, industry and population filled sweeties. Which is why I'm not allowed, I guess.

On an actual point that might be useful for a post, I take it aircraft technology is vaguely interwar at this point? That is, lots of biplanes and everybody trying to figure out how to get a monoplane to work without it tearing it's own wings off in combat?

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