New Civilizations (2nd Era, OOC, Always Open )

[UniversalCommons]

Are we in the timeskip now?

No we are not. Things have slowed a bit. It would be a good time to continue the war.

[Endem]

Wait, so there's been a time skip after all, which year are we in?

2975 BCE. The timeskip was over a month ago, but I don’t recall you posting since then.

Pretty sure I did actually

[Reatra]

Joohan, is this endless back-and-forth debacle really worse than just throwing up a tech tree, some expansion mechanics, and calling it a day? Since I'm pretty much the perfect impartial observer I'll even help you set one up.

I've clashed with G-Tech on more-or-less the same lines of arguments for over a year. I'm not even in this RP anymore and it's still giving me a headache.

Yeah no this is not a good idea imma be real.

[Joohan]

With the Dusk Union and Roskilde in a desultory conflict in the north,

I mean... we will be very soon, but... not quite yet.

[Endem]

So, what the hell happened to the Commonwealth

[Reatra]

Jesus I just remembered that two timeskips have happened since I went inactive lmfao hoooly shit that's a lot of time to try and work with. Shit man, I mean don't worry I'm working on it, but shiiiiiiiiit

[Plzen]

So, what the hell happened to the Commonwealth

I guess the best way to put it would be to simply say that it stopped existing. It wasn't really conquered, although large sections of it are under occupation. It wasn't really dissolved, although I think Sweden did declare independence. Abstract reality was just found incompatible with concrete reality and ceased to exist.

A checking account is just electricity in some computer and everyone knows it, and yet it's still the money that makes the world economy go around. Now imagine that everyone just abruptly stopped believing that currency is valuable. Not a single coin or a single bank account would be changed, but money would basically just stop existing as a concept.

Now imagine that happened not just to money, but everything about a country - its laws, its institutions, the rights and duties of its citizens - and you have a rough picture of what is happening to the Commonwealth. People are no longer taking them so seriously and therefore they are ceasing to meaningfully exist.

I imagine some of the more belligerent settlements up in Norway would be pleased to not have those controls on their overseas raiding activities anymore. :p

[Endem]

So, what the hell happened to the Commonwealth

I guess the best way to put it would be to simply say that it stopped existing. It wasn't really conquered, although large sections of it are under occupation. It wasn't really dissolved, although I think Sweden did declare independence. Abstract reality was just found incompatible with concrete reality and ceased to exist.

A checking account is just electricity in some computer and everyone knows it, and yet it's still the money that makes the world economy go around. Now imagine that everyone just abruptly stopped believing that currency is valuable. Not a single coin or a single bank account would be changed, but money would basically just stop existing as a concept.

Now imagine that happened not just to money, but everything about a country - its laws, its institutions, the rights and duties of its citizens - and you have a rough picture of what is happening to the Commonwealth. People are no longer taking them so seriously and therefore they are ceasing to meaningfully exist.

I imagine some of the more belligerent settlements up in Norway would be pleased to not have those controls on their overseas raiding activities anymore.

Why did this happen?

[Reatra]

man I'm re-reading my 7500 word post I was preparing for the 2980 timeskip to deal with the five years between my last post and the dysentery event G-Tech gave me (turns out dysentery almost certainly didnt exist back then but you know, it's a fun event either way, just sooooooo hard to write about) and man I was doing some ambitious stuff. Like I know five years is quite a long time, but damn, I lowkey forgot how much I constantly thought about New Civ last year lmfao

[G-Tech Corporation]

man I'm re-reading my 7500 word post I was preparing for the 2980 timeskip to deal with the five years between my last post and the dysentery event G-Tech gave me (turns out dysentery almost certainly didnt exist back then but you know, it's a fun event either way, just sooooooo hard to write about) and man I was doing some ambitious stuff. Like I know five years is quite a long time, but damn, I lowkey forgot how much I constantly thought about New Civ last year lmfao

Heh. That disease isn’t dysentery.

[Reatra]

man I'm re-reading my 7500 word post I was preparing for the 2980 timeskip to deal with the five years between my last post and the dysentery event G-Tech gave me (turns out dysentery almost certainly didnt exist back then but you know, it's a fun event either way, just sooooooo hard to write about) and man I was doing some ambitious stuff. Like I know five years is quite a long time, but damn, I lowkey forgot how much I constantly thought about New Civ last year lmfao

Heh. That disease isn’t dysentery.

Ah you said bloody flux, which I didn't recognize, so I googled it and it said dysentery.

[Endem]

I guess the best way to put it would be to simply say that it stopped existing. It wasn't really conquered, although large sections of it are under occupation. It wasn't really dissolved, although I think Sweden did declare independence. Abstract reality was just found incompatible with concrete reality and ceased to exist.

A checking account is just electricity in some computer and everyone knows it, and yet it's still the money that makes the world economy go around. Now imagine that everyone just abruptly stopped believing that currency is valuable. Not a single coin or a single bank account would be changed, but money would basically just stop existing as a concept.

Now imagine that happened not just to money, but everything about a country - its laws, its institutions, the rights and duties of its citizens - and you have a rough picture of what is happening to the Commonwealth. People are no longer taking them so seriously and therefore they are ceasing to meaningfully exist.

I imagine some of the more belligerent settlements up in Norway would be pleased to not have those controls on their overseas raiding activities anymore.

Why did this happen?

Or better how did this happen?

[G-Tech Corporation]

Heh. That disease isn’t dysentery.

Ah you said bloody flux, which I didn't recognize, so I googled it and it said dysentery.

Oh yes. But that's just what the locals call it. It would be the height of coincidence if the locals and some 1700s Europeans happened to identify the same disease by the same name.

[New Arcadius]

A tech system would be a very bad idea.

Namely because it would just make Ancient Egypt look like a savage civilization like how (and sadly) most people view them, while they view the Romans as technologically advanced gods, while thinking every African civilization or West Asian civilization as people living in mudhuts and haveno knowledge.

The Ancient Egyptians were at this time, getting to their renaissance. They are right now in their Medieval Era. China rn is in their kinda bronze age, while Europe is still kinda getting things together.

[Joohan]

China event up:

Basically, Wan's campaign is being taken advantage of by various clans and individuals to pretty much eliminate their own personal rivals and secure power for themselves - turning the campaign into, essentially, a scapegoat for sectarian violence and genocide. Wan is being paid off in plunder in order to look the other way while these massacres take place.

[Orostan]

China event up:

Basically, Wan's campaign is being taken advantage of by various clans and individuals to pretty much eliminate their own personal rivals and secure power for themselves - turning the campaign into, essentially, a scapegoat for sectarian violence and genocide. Wan is being paid off in plunder in order to look the other way while these massacres take place.

Excellent post!

I’ll make sure to have sectarian violence be a major stability problem. I will also begin trying to make China more culturally homogenous. In real life south China wasn’t even Chinese before the first Emperor basically colonized the area.

[Orostan]

Posted. Aaron begins to figure out that something is amiss before Commander Wan returns to Luoyang to report to the government and a oracle bone ceremony is preformed by a priest alone at night.

I hoped I gave a little more dimension to Aaron and the other characters in this post. I tried to keep it as character focused as possible and I would like any feedback anyone would like to give about my writing so I can improve it.

[New Arcadius]

Give me some map updates and I will apply to the map

[Cainesland]

Give me some map updates and I will apply to the map

I will see if I can send you the territory for the Single Market, Northwest Territory, and Rupertsland tomorrow.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Give me some map updates and I will apply to the map

Hm. I'll get to work on that.

[Cainesland]

I might not be posting for the next week

[UniversalCommons]

Trader Ulysses has divers working for him for sponges, we also mentioned collecting coral, and trading for pearls. This might we would be able to develop divers that could stay under for about 4-5 minutes. He developed a simple pot to trap air. Also around this time period, I think we could develop a simple bamboo snorkel. Would it be possible to do something like a salvage operation or introduce diving for military purposes into the game, holing a few ships from Ur with divers, cutting some anchor lines, mischief. Also, possibly locating the sunken ships from Uruk and retrieving some of the equipment and treasure.

[Orostan]

Trader Ulysses has divers working for him for sponges, we also mentioned collecting coral, and trading for pearls. This might we would be able to develop divers that could stay under for about 4-5 minutes. He developed a simple pot to trap air. Also around this time period, I think we could develop a simple bamboo snorkel. Would it be possible to do something like a salvage operation or introduce diving for military purposes into the game, holing a few ships from Ur with divers, cutting some anchor lines, mischief. Also, possibly locating the sunken ships from Uruk and retrieving some of the equipment and treasure.

I imagine the feasibility of salvage operations will depend on the depth of wrecks and the water you’d be diving in. How would you even know where ship wrecks are?

[Joohan]

Sorry I haven't posted in a while yall. I was working on a long and detailed one, but it got deleted this morning. I'll try and get it up today,

[Endem]

Can I ask, because I wasn't following the Winter War storyline closely, who was the guy in Kulm? And if by chance he was Victor, how did he get there, how long was he in Confederacy's lands, and did he do anything to Confederacy like, I dunno, wage war ( I hope not ), and lastly, where do you think Kulm is on the map?