AMW Big Discussion Thread

[Chrinthanium]

Ummm Chrin, sorry to bother about this, but my claim also encompasses the "hole" between Valendia and Nibelunc (Luxembourg, Saarland and western Rhineland-Palatinate) and that island that is between Sao Tome & Principe and Cameroon. I wouldn't bother you with the latter, but in that island is Equatorial Guinea's capital and a good chunk of it's population.

Fix'd it!

[Nova Gaul]

Awesome work on the App thread Chrin as always!

(Must say I am sorry we lost Kyr, hopefully he'll be back when RL lets up).

Regarding applications...and our previous discussion about a kind of recruitment drive, does anyone think we should kick off a new application thread with the relaxed membership rules? I'd be happy to help out if it's needed.

[Chrinthanium]

Awesome work on the App thread Chrin as always!

(Must say I am sorry we lost Kyr, hopefully he'll be back when RL lets up).

Regarding applications...and our previous discussion about a kind of recruitment drive, does anyone think we should kick off a new application thread with the relaxed membership rules? I'd be happy to help out if it's needed.

I don't know if a new application thread will do anything. Unless we blast the top with the phrase, "Land available!" and then spring the rules on them, I don't know if a new thread will garner that much interest.

EDIT

I have considered the idea of a new thread. Maybe with the right wording, we can make it pop. If we don't make it too high-brow, give it a warm feeling, maybe we can recruit a few more folks. Of course, it helps if we're actively RPing as well. Seems the only thing this RP group doesn't do is RP.

[Chrinthanium]

The more I think about a new apps thread, the more I tend to warm up to the idea. But, if we do it, I'd like to see it written something along these lines:

"Are you looking for a place to call home? Do you want a place where realism is the name of the game? Then look no further than A Modern World! Yes, A Modern World where you can stop fretting over uberweapons, sparkly vampires, and ogres.

Joining AMW is simple: just post an application below. There's no formal application process, but we do ask that you tell us in as much detail as possible about what type of nation you'd like to play in our little group. Don't be afraid to be creative here. As long as it is available in real life, it can work in AMW.

Before you get started, there are a few rules to understand. Firstly, your population is tied directly to your claim. For instance, if you claim the US State of Florida, your population in AMW would be the RL population of Florida. Also, whatever the RL natural resources of the land you claim are, that's what you have. Same with climate. "

We need it to pop like that.

[Nova Gaul]

Love it Chrin: less is more. Let's make the application a doorway of the imagination for prospective applicants.

Love the format. And put it nifty graphics, like a globe, too! If you need any help, let me know!

By the way, working on getting some action up soon!

[Chrinthanium]

Love it Chrin: less is more. Let's make the application a doorway of the imagination for prospective applicants.

Love the format. And put it nifty graphics, like a globe, too! If you need any help, let me know!

By the way, working on getting some action up soon!

Yes, I see your RP with Congo. I'll be watching that

Also, I'd really appreciate input from the group here. I'm beginning to wonder if anyone is actually still around these parts.

[Chrinthanium]

Okay, boys and girls.......

Here is what we need from the members: factbook updates. I know that Mod has made some changes, but his factbook doesn't reflect any of them. Also, I know that we all have lives outside of AMW (okay, you all do, I don't heh), but with all the changes, in order to be correct in everything I have mapped and that we use ICly, I hope we all get our factbooks straightened out soon.

Since no one has objected, I've begun work on a new Application Thread OP. Once I have the rough draft to my liking, I'll give you all a chance to view it and see. Perhaps a spring membership drive is what we need. Getting some more life in AMW will be a good thing. Hopefully we nab a few willing to stick around.

Some technical changes for me, specifically. My factbook is no longer in FaNI. I've ported it to the factbook section on my nation page (link updated in siggy and on the offsite). I've given up on RPing outside of AMW for now (apart from one-off, non-canonical NS RPs).

Rough Draft OP for New Apps Thread:

Are you looking for a place to call home? Do you crave a realistic setting for your nation? Tired of dealing with all of those multibillion populations where geographic locations are ambiguous at best? Then, we’ve got the place for you: A Modern World.

Yes, A Modern World (known by its members as AMW), is a region built on modern-realistic roleplay where diplomatic maneuvers and trade negotiations are far more common that total war. It’s a place where you can let your nation rise or fall on its own merits.

Want a small, tinpot dictatorship that makes North Korea look friendly and charming? You can do that here! Want to become a player on the world stage? We look forward to it! Have a unique culture? Sure, bring it! As long as it is modern and realistic, we’re open to it.

Of course, there are a few rules to remember.
1: Your AMW population is equal to the RL population of the area you claim. For example, if you claim Florida, you have Florida’s population. 2: Realism is king. It’s fine to have a unique culture, but it can’t include aliens, sparkly vampires, wizards and magic, orcs, orgres, and things of a fantastic nature like that. If it isn’t something in the real world, it isn’t something that can be in AMW.
3: AMW is not portable to the whole of NS. While we’re a part of NS, we’re not integrated into the framework of the rest of NS. We’re a closed RP group where RP is only open to members of our group. As such, anything you do outside of AMW has no impact on your nation in AMW, and anything you do in AMW has no impact on your nation outside of AMW.
4: WYSIWYG. Your geography, climate, natural resources, available military industrial complex, and the like are directly tied to the area your claim. Like your population, if you claim Florida, you get its climate, its geography, its natural resources, and the military industrial complex located in Florida.
5: Activity Requirement: 1 In-character post per month (30 days) is all we ask.

So, now that you’re interested, how do you become a member? Well, you have to post a claim. What that means is, you tell us what kind of nation you want to play in AMW, and where in the world you want it to be located. It is best to give us a brief paragraph on history, culture, military, economy, and government. You don’t have to be extremely detailed, but some details are necessary.

Once your application is posted, we like to allow the mapper and at least one other member to say yes before you move forward. This can take a day or two sometimes. It’s nothing to worry about, though. Usually our members are pretty quick to respond to a new player. If you have questions about AMW, please feel free to ask in our Big Discussion Thread.

For your information, in the post below is a listing of our existing claims and a map of all claims so you can see what areas are open!

Thanks for stopping by! We look forward to your application!

[Chrinthanium]

So, I was browsing Cracked.com and stumbled upon this article in which this picture and caption appeared. Since it's a large file (in order to be read properly), I linked it rather than embed it. Heh, I laughed for a while on this one. FYI, the large man sitting is none other than AMW's Chingiz.

[Amerique]

Yup, I've known about this for awhile now. He's Said Mir Mohammed Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara up to the Russian Revolution when he was overthrown by the Red Army. The color photograph is from a few years before the First World War, same with this fellow that you may recognize from Depkazia's factbook, who was the Khan of Khiva around the same time.

[Chrinthanium]

Yup, I've known about this for awhile now. He's Said Mir Mohammed Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara up to the Russian Revolution when he was overthrown by the Red Army. The color photograph is from a few years before the First World War, same with this fellow that you may recognize from Depkazia's factbook, who was the Khan of Khiva around the same time.

Aye. What made me laugh was the "Russian pimp" caption

[Great Italy]

Okay, boys and girls.......

Here is what we need from the members: factbook updates. I know that Mod has made some changes, but his factbook doesn't reflect any of them. Also, I know that we all have lives outside of AMW (okay, you all do, I don't heh), but with all the changes, in order to be correct in everything I have mapped and that we use ICly, I hope we all get our factbooks straightened out soon.

Since no one has objected, I've begun work on a new Application Thread OP. Once I have the rough draft to my liking, I'll give you all a chance to view it and see. Perhaps a spring membership drive is what we need. Getting some more life in AMW will be a good thing. Hopefully we nab a few willing to stick around.

Some technical changes for me, specifically. My factbook is no longer in FaNI. I've ported it to the factbook section on my nation page (link updated in siggy and on the offsite). I've given up on RPing outside of AMW for now (apart from one-off, non-canonical NS RPs).

Rough Draft OP for New Apps Thread:

Are you looking for a place to call home? Do you crave a realistic setting for your nation? Tired of dealing with all of those multibillion populations where geographic locations are ambiguous at best? Then, we’ve got the place for you: A Modern World.

Yes, A Modern World (known by its members as AMW), is a region built on modern-realistic roleplay where diplomatic maneuvers and trade negotiations are far more common that total war. It’s a place where you can let your nation rise or fall on its own merits.

Want a small, tinpot dictatorship that makes North Korea look friendly and charming? You can do that here! Want to become a player on the world stage? We look forward to it! Have a unique culture? Sure, bring it! As long as it is modern and realistic, we’re open to it.

Of course, there are a few rules to remember.
1: Your AMW population is equal to the RL population of the area you claim. For example, if you claim Florida, you have Florida’s population. 2: Realism is king. It’s fine to have a unique culture, but it can’t include aliens, sparkly vampires, wizards and magic, orcs, orgres, and things of a fantastic nature like that. If it isn’t something in the real world, it isn’t something that can be in AMW.
3: AMW is not portable to the whole of NS. While we’re a part of NS, we’re not integrated into the framework of the rest of NS. We’re a closed RP group where RP is only open to members of our group. As such, anything you do outside of AMW has no impact on your nation in AMW, and anything you do in AMW has no impact on your nation outside of AMW.
4: WYSIWYG. Your geography, climate, natural resources, available military industrial complex, and the like are directly tied to the area your claim. Like your population, if you claim Florida, you get its climate, its geography, its natural resources, and the military industrial complex located in Florida.
5: Activity Requirement: 1 In-character post per month (30 days) is all we ask.

So, now that you’re interested, how do you become a member? Well, you have to post a claim. What that means is, you tell us what kind of nation you want to play in AMW, and where in the world you want it to be located. It is best to give us a brief paragraph on history, culture, military, economy, and government. You don’t have to be extremely detailed, but some details are necessary.

Once your application is posted, we like to allow the mapper and at least one other member to say yes before you move forward. This can take a day or two sometimes. It’s nothing to worry about, though. Usually our members are pretty quick to respond to a new player. If you have questions about AMW, please feel free to ask in our Big Discussion Thread.

For your information, in the post below is a listing of our existing claims and a map of all claims so you can see what areas are open!

Thanks for stopping by! We look forward to your application!

Sounds good.

But should I also then put my factbook in the nation page, or in FaNI?

[Chrinthanium]

Okay, boys and girls.......

Here is what we need from the members: factbook updates. I know that Mod has made some changes, but his factbook doesn't reflect any of them. Also, I know that we all have lives outside of AMW (okay, you all do, I don't heh), but with all the changes, in order to be correct in everything I have mapped and that we use ICly, I hope we all get our factbooks straightened out soon.

Since no one has objected, I've begun work on a new Application Thread OP. Once I have the rough draft to my liking, I'll give you all a chance to view it and see. Perhaps a spring membership drive is what we need. Getting some more life in AMW will be a good thing. Hopefully we nab a few willing to stick around.

Some technical changes for me, specifically. My factbook is no longer in FaNI. I've ported it to the factbook section on my nation page (link updated in siggy and on the offsite). I've given up on RPing outside of AMW for now (apart from one-off, non-canonical NS RPs).

Rough Draft OP for New Apps Thread:

Sounds good.

But should I also then put my factbook in the nation page, or in FaNI?

Entirely up to you.

[The Crooked Beat]

So I've gone and decided to cobble together some of my lingering thoughts and ideas about Gandvik's future trajectory into the beginnings of an RP, not pretty by any means but maybe a way to advance things to the next stage, so to speak, whether or not that's something that holds any real appeal remaining of course to be seen!

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[Kalvinka]

I'm wondering if I should make the "Red Hand" (YOU CAUGHT ME RED HANDED, AHAHAHA *shot*) an extreme and elite inner division of the KBIA, or if they should be completely separate.

[Jatriqya and Hoya]

Apologies to everyone for having disappeared once again. I've been moving around a lot and I really appreciate that I've been kept on the map despite falling completely inactive. I've moved to London and have been really busy trying to find a job which has taken approximately 95% of my time. I'm still extremely busy on that front, but I will let you all know when that's settled down.

[The Crooked Beat]

No problem J&H! Certainly things aren't terribly busy at the moment, so if you can't do much more than pop in to say hello from time to time I can't foresee that becoming a problem. Thanks a bunch at any rate for the heads-up, and hope to see more of you once the employment situation becomes clearer!

[Chrinthanium]

Apologies to everyone for having disappeared once again. I've been moving around a lot and I really appreciate that I've been kept on the map despite falling completely inactive. I've moved to London and have been really busy trying to find a job which has taken approximately 95% of my time. I'm still extremely busy on that front, but I will let you all know when that's settled down.

Welcome back. Get settled, get situated, and don't go away again!

[Jatriqya and Hoya]

Almost as quickly as I mention my job search, it ends. I just found a position starting next week, and I'll need to get situated and probably will be busy learning the ropes & all of the position but I'm looking forward to having more time for AMW!

[Chrinthanium]

Almost as quickly as I mention my job search, it ends. I just found a position starting next week, and I'll need to get situated and probably will be busy learning the ropes & all of the position but I'm looking forward to having more time for AMW!

Well, AMW isn't the fastest-paced RP group around. So we'll be here when you're all ready and have some more time. Looking forward to it, sir!

[The Amyclae]

Welcome back J&H! And I'm glad you found a jerb.

[Dra-pol]

I'm thinking about doing some sort of Drapoel reboot RP, if I can figure out exactly how to approach it. I've already sort of backtracked in my head, but haven't really got anything done or anyone else involved.

I'm not sure whether to start with a descriptive account of life in Dra-pol, or try to recreate the foreigners-stumble-into-hermit-kingdom conflict of yore. But, er, hopefully there'll be something, soon, possibly entailing a pared-down refurbishment of Drapoel history.

[Amerique]

I think an RP regarding the discovery of Dra-pol should be set in the past (perhaps the 19th century when all our empires were at each other's throats?) but could potentially determine the future of Drapoel RP. It isn't a must, but it could be an interesting and dynamic way to flesh out the history more. For the purposes of the preliminary draft of my new factbook, have you had a chance to come up with a Drapoel place name for Phucket Island? I was going to assume the population is mostly Drapoel so real-life Thai or SE Asian languages would not fit too well.

[Dra-pol]

Yes, as it happens, I uncovered some dusty old records saved as unfashionable file types, such is the antiquity of AMW-related RP! Phuket would be known to the Drapoel, if I'm not misreading my own ramblings, as Pin'det, originally a position of strength for the Pin'drap kingdom, one of the principle players in Dra-pol's classical Four Dynasties period.

That population: I'd suggest appropriating the real demographics of Phuket. Rapidly growing -doubling in size over the first decade of the C21st- with probably near two thirds of a million people there today, similar to Macau ((all be it a Macau with miles of tourist-friendly serenity and/or military bases outside the city/cities)), and with the >360,000 registered Thais becoming Drapoel, and the ca.1/4 million ex-pats becoming white Americans and other foreigners. Well, it's easier than moving people around, anyway.

Well, I might just start typing something set in Dra-pol, and see what happens.

[Pemba]

I'm about to start off a few introductory type role plays, bringing my characters into the fold, and a sudden and unexpected return of AMW's least favourite dictator. Will be PMing a few of you to sort out settings, etc.

[Arumdaum]

Hey guys! I'm currently playing as Korea with possessions in Alaska and PNW. I'd really like to develop my relations with my neighbors.

I'm concerned as to how racial relations would be in North America, especially in California and in particular relating to Asians, with the Pacific Northwest and Alaska having a majority Korean population. I'm expecting discriminatory policies and general feelings of white supremacy in the other states, potentially to the detriment of relations. I'd prefer if such things were downplayed, however.

Of course, I'm expecting a lot to be different in the modern day - moreso in California than in the United Gulf States, based on what I've read and heard about them.

I'm also interested in how Korea entering the equation would affect the demographics of Canada, California, Amerique, and the United Gulf States. I was hoping that perhaps bits of Western Canada could have historically been under the control of Korea, and then wrested from Korea, if Spyr is okay with that.

Would there have been notable immigration from Asia during the Gold Rush in California? Would white people have attempted to immigrate to the PNW and Alaska, especially following the discovery of gold in Yukon and Alaska?

I've also noticed that I'm near Gandvik both in Korea and in Alaska. Should there have been tensions regarding possessions in the Russian Far East and Alaska?

I'm expecting Amerique and the Korean PNW (Yudong) to be have been connected by rail from the mid-late 1800s, allowing for a greater transfer of goods and greater cultural exchange between Korea and Amerique. There would also be the potential of teaming up to neutralize the Native Americans of the Great Plains. If animosity historically exists between Korea and Japan, there could also be further cooperation, especially if matters came to war, with perhaps shipment of supplies and troops from Amerique's major industrial and population centers to the Pacific Northwest.

I'm sort of expecting greater exchange of goods and even more cultural exchange with California due to the major population centers being closer to each other. Being a Korean-American from California... bulgogi and galbi tacos will be necessary. Major population centers in the PNW such as Seattle and Portland (all with different names, ofc) could be connected to the Bay Area and LA through high-speed rail, and perhaps also Vancouver if Vancouver is still an existing major city in AMW.

If Korea produced large amounts of oil from Alaska early on, would it have created tensions with other major oil-producing states such as the United Gulf States and California? Would drilling for oil in Alaska be controversial beginning in the latter half of the 20th century, even if taking place in a foreign country?