A Different World: Age of Darkness [OOC|Open]

[G-Tech Corporation]

Hmm, well, they're pretty rare and intelligent beasts. I doubt they would consent to being beasts of burden, but you can always appropriately enslave/force them to such ends.

How about combat then? Would they enjoy that?

Isn't that what you already use them for?

Also lmao just exceeded the word count for the mechanics post.

[Piscina]

How strict are the land type restrictions for agricultural settlements? I mean, you obviously can’t build Agrarian Heartlands in a desert, but for example, is it possible to build farming estates in a forest?

[The Empire of Tau]

Isn't that what you already use them for?

That I do.

I assume researching the highest level of trapping will allow me to use them on the field - away from mere defense operations?

[Sonakion]

WIP
Empire Application
Name: Riocht of the Slev
Short History:
For many years did the mountains cast the Hill people in its shadow, hiding them from the world, for many years those harsh tall pinnacles of rock looked down upon the Hill people acting as a great wall whom no enemy could cross and so the people were safe. Till the time of reckoning when the whole world seemed to flip upon itself causing catastrophe after catastrophe. No longer were the Hill people safe and so they fled up the mountains. Over bottomless black crevice and curled stone stairs, through looming caves filled with echo's of those since dead, under stalactites glittering with starlight from aeons past. Still they climbed. Across ancient bridges of cracked stone, along well-trodden dirt paths, across fields of white that never melted. These feats were of course not accomplished alone. Mountain folk who for a long time now when tired of goat and brown Shrooms had came down to the Hill people and traded precious stones for potato's soaked in butter and glistening ham. Mountain folk do not forget and so they lead the Hill Folk through the mountains. Till they came to a great flat land of rock, a plateau which hung below the tops of the peaks. Here together the Mountain Folk and Hill People did build there city.

Much years have past since then and while a few farming settlements have been reestablished the dotted ruins of farmsteads and towns remind the people of the horrors of the past and so they remind wary of the world below.
Starting Location:
Advantage:
Description:

[Novas Arcanum]

Could I use God-spiders in different applications? One as a beast of burden and another in combat?

Hmm, well, they're pretty rare and intelligent beasts. I doubt they would consent to being beasts of burden, but you can always appropriately enslave/force them to such ends.

Hey G can you add Celestial Hegemony and Imperial Census?

Ah yes, I'll get the Census in.

Can you add Celestial Hegemony?

[Sonakion]

WIP
Empire Application
Name:
Short History:
For many years did the mountains cast the Hill people in its shadow, hiding them from the world, for many years those harsh tall pinnacles of rock looked down upon the Hill people acting as a great wall whom no enemy could cross and so the people were safe. Till the time of reckoning when the whole world seemed to flip upon itself causing catastrophe after catastrophe. No longer were the Hill people safe and so they fled up the mountains. Over bottomless black crevice and curled stone stairs, through looming caves filled with echo's of those since dead, under stalactites glittering with starlight from aeons past. Still they climbed. Across ancient bridges of cracked stone, along well-trodden dirt paths, across fields of white that never melted. These feats were of course not accomplished alone. Mountain folk who for a long time now when tired of goat and brown Shrooms had came down to the Hill people and traded precious stones for potato's soaked in butter and glistening ham. Mountain folk do not forget and so they lead the Hill Folk through the mountains. Till they came to a great flat land of rock, a plateau which hung below the tops of the peaks. Here together the Mountain Folk and Hill People did build there city.
Starting Location:
Advantage:
Description:

Just realised I got carried away with the history. And here was me checking to see if it was too short.

[G-Tech Corporation]

How strict are the land type restrictions for agricultural settlements? I mean, you obviously can’t build Agrarian Heartlands in a desert, but for example, is it possible to build farming estates in a forest?

Functionally speaking, very un-strict at the level of sophistication we are talking about. Even deserts have oases, and the flattest grasslands will have sparse copses suitable for logging. But specialized above and beyond what is current 'base' list of buildable Holdings and you'll see landforms playing in much more significantly. Right now rivers and coasts are the main landforms to worry about.

Hmm, well, they're pretty rare and intelligent beasts. I doubt they would consent to being beasts of burden, but you can always appropriately enslave/force them to such ends.



Ah yes, I'll get the Census in.

Can you add Celestial Hegemony?

Oh I'm still a day or two out from Development things. We'll get there, but not yet.

[The Empire of Tau]

if one army is ten thousand then could we mix up their arms and armor?

[Novas Arcanum]

if one army is ten thousand then could we mix up their arms and armor?

Yeah you could do that in the previous era.

[G-Tech Corporation]

if one army is ten thousand then could we mix up their arms and armor?

if one army is ten thousand then could we mix up their arms and armor?

Yeah you could do that in the previous era.

Actually I’m not doing that this era, because mixed formations make battles 2000% more tedious to resolve.

[Ralnis]

if one army is ten thousand then could we mix up their arms and armor?

Yeah you could do that in the previous era.

Actually I’m not doing that this era, because mixed formations make battles 2000% more tedious to resolve.

So no elite ape shock troops? Damn, there goes my full ape army that is led by a Ceasar and establish colonies in my name.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Actually I’m not doing that this era, because mixed formations make battles 2000% more tedious to resolve.

So no elite ape shock troops? Damn, there goes my full ape army that is led by a Ceasar and establish colonies in my name.

Oh I can't see any problem with elite ape shock troops. But you'd have to pull together ten thousand of them first.

[The Empire of Tau]

Actually I’m not doing that this era, because mixed formations make battles 2000% more tedious to resolve.

So - there could be just an army full of crossbows? The full 10,000 troops of just crossbows? That seems to be very..odd.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Actually I’m not doing that this era, because mixed formations make battles 2000% more tedious to resolve.

So - there could be just an army full of crossbows? The full 10,000 troops of just crossbows? That seems to be very..odd.

Sure. That's not to say that your army would only have to use crossbows - but to use crossbows, they'll be equipped with crossbows.

[The Empire of Tau]

Sure. That's not to say that your army would only have to use crossbows - but to use crossbows, they'll be equipped with crossbows.

So then I can give them both melee and ranged weapons?

[Lazarian]

Looks like the mechanics are coming along quite well!

[G-Tech Corporation]

Sure. That's not to say that your army would only have to use crossbows - but to use crossbows, they'll be equipped with crossbows.

So then I can give them both melee and ranged weapons?

Sure - that's what most people have been doing.

Looks like the mechanics are coming along quite well!

Really, I only have to finalize Order, Wonders, and statblocks - then we'll be live.

[Ralnis]

Deleted for being a dumbass

[Lazarian]

Do new settlements need to be staffed with Population from a City or another Settlement, or does a newly created Rural Community come with 1 Pop?

[G-Tech Corporation]

Do new settlements need to be staffed with Population from a City or another Settlement, or does a newly created Rural Community come with 1 Pop?

Technically, neither. A Rural Community can get by just fine on hundreds of odds and sods which don’t rise to the level of a full “Population”. But, of course, making improvements will require moving forward from that “zero Population” state.

[The GAmeTopians]

Do new settlements need to be staffed with Population from a City or another Settlement, or does a newly created Rural Community come with 1 Pop?

Technically, neither. A Rural Community can get by just fine on hundreds of odds and sods which don’t rise to the level of a full “Population”. But, of course, making improvements will require moving forward from that “zero Population” state.

Can a “zero” population settlement still receive its generation growth? The OP currently reads as “yes”, but it’s worth checking.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Technically, neither. A Rural Community can get by just fine on hundreds of odds and sods which don’t rise to the level of a full “Population”. But, of course, making improvements will require moving forward from that “zero Population” state.

Can a “zero” population settlement still receive its generation growth? The OP currently reads as “yes”, but it’s worth checking.

+1

[The Empire of Tau]

Sure - that's what most people have been doing.

But I can't do mixed formations?

[The GAmeTopians]

Sure - that's what most people have been doing.

But I can't do mixed formations?

Any given 10,000 soldiers must be equipped identically. You can equip 10k one way and 10k another, but a single army must be equipped uniformly. It's a simplicity thing for G's sake.

[Ralnis]

So I don't want to do the Storm Storm Empire. Changing to the God-king civ that lives underground.