Stuff like "well, it's 1970, you be the Soviets and I'll be the Americans and the Arabs just overran Israel" or "let's replicate the Oblivion game world" (as complete hypotheticals) are not appropriate for these boards. The entire point of the site is to make your own nation. We don't really mind if it's an alternate-history version of a real place (sort of like how Draka is an alternate-history South Africa), or based heavily on some other fictional source like the Galactic Empire or the Federation, but the idea is you play the roles of your nations, whatever they end up being, not those of arbitrary real-life nations in alternate-history situations or essentially closed fancy simulations of other game worlds.
Alternate NS history ("remember that war we did a while back? What if X instead of Y won?") is fine. Alternate IRL history ("What if the Red Army didn't rally at Stalingrad? You be Stalin, I'll be Hitler") is not. Basing something on previous art ("it's like the Galactic Empire from Star Wars") is fine. Being exactly the same as previous art ("okay, let's do something in the Galactic Empire just before A New Hope where the Imperial Navy is putting down Rebellion forces on a fringe planet") is not.
In the clarifications below, "real-life" can be replaced with "previous fictional art" and the concept remains the same.
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Summary: Using Real Earth geography is fine. Using the shape of Real Earth countries is fine. Using Real Earth populations is fine. Using the actual Real Earth countries (culture, history, et al), and thus essentially being a carbon copy of a Real Earth country, is not
[QUOTE=Amazonian Beasts;12715756]Question:
If we simply use an Earth Map (since, kinda hard to utilize a map without one, and NS RPs also use Earth maps frequently WITH no reprocussions), and limit populations and economcs to more realistic national limits (since, let's face it: 8 bil for an MT Pop is outrageous on any planet with gazillions of nations)-would that be considered off-limits?
Landmasses aren't a concern. It can look like RL Earth; that's not a problem.
If so, then there will really be no more Earths. I can't see how that at all would be incidental, since the only thing that includes "real World stuff" is the map, which many RPers use anyway in non-Earth NS RPs (check the big Hataria thread, where his territory is split up). Tech, history, leaders, people-all would remain NS.
That's why this is only concerned with, specifically, "real life" alternate history threads. Kahanistan, ICly, is some sort of weird alternate-history southern Israeli breakaway nation. That's fine. Were Kahanistan to play the role of real-life Israel in a reenactment and alternate-history version of the Arab-Israeli war with other people playing Syria and Egypt, that wouldn't be appropriate.
Thanks for your time.
De nada. That's what it's for.[/quote]
Summary: Yes, you can make an alternate-history version of a country that split off of the real life timeline somewhere back a ways (many people already have). No, you cannot make a carbon copy for the purpose of reenacting or doing an alternate version of some historical event. You cannot refight WW2 as the Nazis, Soviets, British Empire, Japanese Empire, French Empire, and the States; you cannot refight the Cold War with Soviet and USA (and loads of proxy state) clones.
[QUOTE=DMG;12715846]Question to the Mods: Is this just a nominal thing? What if somebody and I wanted to make our NS Nation the duplicates of the USA and the USSR, respectively - and then we went about fighting a massive global war?
Given that people have played (at least in my own knowledge) as 1945 Australia and some sort of wonky diverged-in-the-1970s Seattle Overland Corridor, I can't see how that would be a real problem from the standpoint of precident. It would be dramatically limiting as to where one could go with it, and one could theoretically get multiple Soviet Unions inhabiting the same 'volume' shouting at each other as to which one is the 'real' one... which could in and of itself be interesting. It that sense it is merely nominal.
The problem comes with importing real-life conflicts and just rehashing the Cold War or WW2 or Vietnam or the Crimean War or (etc etc etc), which is just the exact same alternate-history exercise as people can get on dedicated alternate-history websites. Using an alternate history for backstory is perfectly fine. Using a "real" nation based on that alternate history is just fine. Once it falls into the, well, I guess "NSverse" it has to relate to other nations in that general milieu. In that way, no, a USSR-puppet and a USA-puppet couldn't just refight the Cold War (or make it into a hot war), as that's just a rules-lawyering loophole around the concept (RL alternate historicizing) intended.[/quote]
Summary: Yes, you can recruit for off-site alternate history boards of your own devising, so long as it isn't the only thing you do. 'Cuz that would be adspamming.
[QUOTE=The PeoplesFreedom;12715891]Er.. Question, can we post an interest thread for Alt History and people can sign up and then could we created an off-site forum to actually do the roleplay?
Yeah, that should be fine.[/quote]
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