Caststar [PT Fantasy World] (Join Within)

[Caststar]

Dear Subscribers,

I have consulted some of the original players of Ceaden with regards to the change to Caststar. A Majority of whom have stated they wish to move back to Ceaden. Therefore we will be canceling Caststar and moving back to the old thread of Ceaden. I do apologize greatly about these sudden turn of events. It is my fault as the moderator for making the quick decision to move to Caststar without thinking it completely through. I hope that those of you who have come from Ceaden to Caststar or those of you who just joined Caststar will accept this apology from the moderating staff of Ceaden for these sudden moves. For those of you players who have just joined Caststar you are more than welcome to come and join Ceaden and I will offer you any help possible in your application and calculations we will be glad to have you.

Ceaden is a unique role-play that many have put many hours into playing. It was wrong of me to make such a sudden change to Caststar and I hope that for those of you that were the original members of Ceaden that you will continue to participate with us. A promise as a moderator I will make is in the future to consult you the players before making any quick decisions so that you the members will have a say in it. I hope to see you all back at Ceaden!

My Devotion to creating an active, quality, and fun PT Fantasy RP remains unchanged and I hope you will join me in this endeavor.

Long Live Ceaden

-Acheisa

[Caststar]

News:

Quests: 12/27/11

Hey all,

Just a quick announcement to encourage you all to get through these intros. Once you all finish your intros then we can start the first quest!

Quests: A mission of sorts that will be given to all the realms by the Gods. Sometimes quests will to be conquer a land in the name or the gods, kill a god of the underworld, defeat an evil horde, kill blasphemers, or rescue a princess. These quests will be given from time to time by the Ceaden staff and will have rewards to those who complete them such as resources, star rock, legendary weapons, special troops, or credits. Sometimes quests will only have one winner, others are a complete or no quest where all participants get credit.

So lets get those intros done, Im excited to start a quest!!

-Achesia

[Caststar]

-Omitted-

[Caststar]

Timeline

The 12 months of Caststar: Lanuarius, Februarius, März, Aprilis, Mai, Lunius, Quintilis, Sextilis, Septus, Octus, Novus, Decus.

Every two and a half days is a month in Ceaden.

0 Ceaden "Year of the Lamb"-

[Caststar]

Administration Threads:

Caststar Forces Declaration Page

Intro Threads:

Achesia- A Soul Made Bloody (Complete)
Durmatagno- The Enemy of my Enemy (Complete)
Bennor- The Sigmar Hammer (Complete)
Farisel- A Tide of Omens

RPing Threads:

Quests:

[Achesia]

Caststar “Nation” Name: The Kingdom of Achesia
Demonym: Achesian
Race: Human
Languages: Achari
Religion: Achari Cultus
Government Type: Monarchy
Head of State: King Lennard Daevus
Seat of Power: Fawnnorth
Currency: Ach
RL Fluency in English: Native
RL Age: 20
Population: 10,000 (Starter Population)
Military Size: 2,000 (20% of population)
Where you wish to place your land plot: Focus Map
Why you wish to join: Love RPing in PT and hope to participate in an active PT fantasy community.
What you wish to spend your Caststar Point on: 1x Economic Powerhouse (+25% to GDP)

[Aelosia]

Caststar “Nation” Name: Farisel
Demonym: Fariselian
Race: Sindar elves (Teleri)
Languages: Sindarin
Religion: Belief in the Valar
Government Type: Aristocracy and monarchy
Head of State: Queen Daeris
Seat of Power: Farisel the Port City
Currency: Celevon
RL Fluency in English: Excellent
Example of previous RP: I have to do this again?
RL Age: 31, and not ahppy about you guys knowing it.
Population: 10,000 (Starter Population)
Military Size: Let me know what should I put here.
Where you wish to place your land plot: Same as Ceaden's Fariselian land. Maybe tweaking a bit the eastern border, let me check.
Why you wish to join: I want to continue what I planned for Ceaden, mostly.
What you wish to spend your Caststar Point on: Is this perks? I also have an idea. Magic stuff.

[The Ben Boys]

Caststar “Nation” Name: Bennor
Demonym: Benian
Race: Human, Tarean
Languages: Benian (Humans), Cherok (Tareans)
Religion: Unis
Government Type: Monarchy
Head of State: King Soren Tunner II
Seat of Power: Odris-Corvatta
Currency: Krone
RL Fluency in English: Native
Example of previous RP: Ceaden, if that's good enough
RL Age: 16
Population: 10,000 (Starter Population)
Military Size: 1200 (ORBAT to come)
Where you wish to place your land plot: Same as before, if it's fine with you.
Why you wish to join: Ceaden was awesome, and though this is much more watered down you are still an excellent mod.
What you wish to spend your Caststar Point on: Military might. Also, I have suggestions for more perks.

The next steps:

-Edit focus map with map key information so that other players can interface with your realm.-Given to you.
-Begin Intro RP-Not needed
-Create Factbook-Again, may I use my old one?
-Declare your military on the Forces Declaration page, with locations of units.-On it.
-Complete Intro RP.-Previously addressed

[Caststar]

Caststar “Nation” Name: Farisel
Demonym: Fariselian
Race: Sindar elves (Teleri)
Languages: Sindarin
Religion: Belief in the Valar
Government Type: Aristocracy and monarchy
Head of State: Queen Daeris
Seat of Power: Farisel the Port City
Currency: Celevon
RL Fluency in English: Excellent
Example of previous RP: I have to do this again?
RL Age: 31, and not ahppy about you guys knowing it.
Population: 10,000 (Starter Population)
Military Size: Let me know what should I put here.
Where you wish to place your land plot: Same as Ceaden's Fariselian land. Maybe tweaking a bit the eastern border, let me check.
Why you wish to join: I want to continue what I planned for Ceaden, mostly.
What you wish to spend your Caststar Point on: Is this perks?

Fariselian: Approved! Welcome, thanks for joining Caststar. I know its really frustrating about Ceaden being closed down, but on top of it being over complicated and scaring people away I was seeing a bad trend of people joining, trying to do all the calculations, and then getting fed up with it an leaving. If you think about it, you guys put allot of work into it, the thing is it wasnt meant to be that much work, it took me 20minutes tops to do most things but thats because I was the creator and I had an understanding of it all, It was to hard for people who didnt have that understanding so therefor if Ceaden continued it would have continued as such with more and more frustration and time wasted when we can make it much simpler and just return to RPing and making stories and having fun. Also it took allot of work on top of my already busy ROTC and school schedule to run the whole thing and it wouldn't have been fair for you all to have to wait on me. This way you dont have to! Thanks for understand and I'm glad you have chosen to join

And yes the points are perks.

Let me know how you want to change your boarders and I'll put it on the new claims map.

[Caststar]

Caststar “Nation” Name: Bennor
Demonym: Benian
Race: Human, Tarean
Languages: Benian (Humans), Cherok (Tareans)
Religion: Unis
Government Type: Monarchy
Head of State: King Soren Tunner II
Seat of Power: Odris-Corvatta
Currency: Krone
RL Fluency in English: Native
Example of previous RP: Ceaden, if that's good enough
RL Age: 16
Population: 10,000 (Starter Population)
Military Size: 1200 (ORBAT to come)
Where you wish to place your land plot: Same as before, if it's fine with you.
Why you wish to join: Ceaden was awesome, and though this is much more watered down you are still an excellent mod.
What you wish to spend your Caststar Point on: Military might. Also, I have suggestions for more perks.

The next steps:

-Edit focus map with map key information so that other players can interface with your realm.-Given to you.
-Begin Intro RP-Not needed
-Create Factbook-Again, may I use my old one?
-Declare your military on the Forces Declaration page, with locations of units.-On it.
-Complete Intro RP.-Previously addressed

Bennor: Approved! Welcome back, thanks so much for understanding and rejoining. I know its frustrating and all with the change. if you check out the post I left Fariselian it explains allot of why I did it. Thanks again for coming back You can reuse your old factbook, you dont need unit stats anymore obviously. I'll have the forces declaration page opened up soon.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

Oh thank the Gods, no more insane math.

I have college tests and other stress factors all of this week, but since the math was removed, I will be much more interested in the weekend.

Yes, I'm a math tutor who despises doing math. Fun.

[Achesia]

Oh thank the Gods, no more insane math.

I have college tests and other stress factors all of this week, but since the math was removed, I will be much more interested in the weekend.

Yes, I'm a math tutor who despises doing math. Fun.

I had the same thoughts, plus I was the only mod able to moderate battles and such because to train a new mod it would have been hell. I'm hoping I made the right decision. I loved Ceaden as much as you all but I think it was to advanced for nation states. I think that this idea brings us more back to the imaginative writing of NS and RPing. What are all of your thoughts, I want to hear them truly. It looked like Italian Mafias was pretty pissed, how bout ya'll?

[Caststar]

Caststar Forces Declaration Page

[Caststar]

Hey guys if you could do me a big favor and change the tags of your Ceaden threads to Caststar. This way we can get out name out there and I can start putting them in the Thread history. Thanks!

[Achesia]

If you all want also, you can transfer some of those non expansion oriented threads over to Caststar so we can continue with them. Just throwing that out there. If you know anyone who is interested in PT Rping then get them on here as well. Tell them no more complicated numbers!

[Achesia]

Posted up my ORBAT in the declaration thread.

[Athalkor]

I think the claim of 'freedom' is a bit of a stretch, you still have players conform to a rule set that ultimately comes down to a numbers game. You still require players to restrict their nations around population and GDP, and the whole perks thing? Yeah, that screams of being easily abused by older nations.

Communities just don't work like that anymore. Successful communities on NS today focus on respect and communication between fellow players and not worrying about trying to play Farmville or Evony on the forums.

Chimera only has one rule: No tech above 1600. Everything else we do is governed not by a expansive rule set, but by the Rule of Cool and the Code of Bro. So long as you're not a douche, troll, or a idiot, you can use whatever it is you think of so long as it abides by the tech rule.

The more respect you have in the community, the more people will be willing to RP and let you get away with having.

This, as Ceaden did, still relies on a RTS-like system to govern the way things work. That is not freedom. That limits the ability to create thriving exotic cultures and tell great stories. In Chimera, we don't have to worry about numbers that constrict our ability to RP, or give a unfair advantage to others. We simply communicate with our fellow players and work from there, building a immersive fantasy world that Casestar just doesn't have because it is so dependant of the RTS system.

And yes, we do screen our applicants before approval, so that may be a turn off to some players, but I'd rather have a community with strong players with well thought out nations, players that can be counted upon to deliver decent length posts and a strong grammatical skill than one that has entire nations based of a simple application factsheet.

So I really have to advise you against saying that Casestar is the only freeform FanT community on NS, because it's hardly freeform, nor is it the only FanT community.

[The Nuclear Fist]

Tag. I'll have an app up tomorrow.

[The Ben Boys]

I think the claim of 'freedom' is a bit of a stretch, you still have players conform to a rule set that ultimately comes down to a numbers game. You still require players to restrict their nations around population and GDP, and the whole perks thing? Yeah, that screams of being easily abused by older nations.

Communities just don't work like that anymore. Successful communities on NS today focus on respect and communication between fellow players and not worrying about trying to play Farmville or Evony on the forums.

Chimera only has one rule: No tech above 1600. Everything else we do is governed not by a expansive rule set, but by the Rule of Cool and the Code of Bro. So long as you're not a douche, troll, or a idiot, you can use whatever it is you think of so long as it abides by the tech rule.

The more respect you have in the community, the more people will be willing to RP and let you get away with having.

This, as Ceaden did, still relies on a RTS-like system to govern the way things work. That is not freedom. That limits the ability to create thriving exotic cultures and tell great stories. In Chimera, we don't have to worry about numbers that constrict our ability to RP, or give a unfair advantage to others. We simply communicate with our fellow players and work from there, building a immersive fantasy world that Casestar just doesn't have because it is so dependant of the RTS system.

And yes, we do screen our applicants before approval, so that may be a turn off to some players, but I'd rather have a community with strong players with well thought out nations, players that can be counted upon to deliver decent length posts and a strong grammatical skill than one that has entire nations based of a simple application factsheet.

So I really have to advise you against saying that Casestar is the only freeform FanT community on NS, because it's hardly freeform, nor is it the only FanT community.

Excuse me for saying this (as a former Chimera player), but out. Now. Not because your disrupting the RP, but does anybody recall why F7 no longer has the "Bistro" and "Theatres" and all that jazz? If we start comparing and criticizing other groups, RP communities/groups may follow. And before you go "your overreacting" this is how the F7 bit started, despite this post also dismantling the OP.

Now you seem to be able to know enough about FanT and Chimera, so your at least a few months worth of experience. If your using a different account and you really, just got on to NS a few months ago, my apologies for the rudeness, but the above still stands. And no, I'm not the OP or a mod, so I can't actually kick you out, but I can tell you that you could be starting something that will end up sucking for every party involved.

[Leneptus]

Caststar “Nation” Name: Sol-Tempus
Demonym: Solite
Race: Humans
Languages: Tempus Standard
Religion: Ancestor Worship
Government Type: Monarchy
Head of State: King William Vol'tep
Seat of Power: Tempus
Currency: Temps
RL Fluency in English: Native, I take honors as well as journalism
Example of previous RP: Not much experience on here, except for the Elder Scrolls RP. I've been playing midieval text based RPGs for years, though.
RL Age: 18
Population: 10,000
Military Size: 2,400
Where you wish to place your land plot:

http://s1263.photobucket.com/albums/ii626/Donny2121/?action=view&current=Untitled.jpg

Why you wish to join: This is the first PT RP ive seen on NationStates, and it seems very thoroughly thought out and well organized. And fun.
What you wish to spend your Caststar Point on: Economic Powerhouse (+25% GDP)

[Leneptus]

Can someone help me out with the whole "ORBAT" thing?

[Aelosia]

I think the claim of 'freedom' is a bit of a stretch, you still have players conform to a rule set that ultimately comes down to a numbers game. You still require players to restrict their nations around population and GDP, and the whole perks thing? Yeah, that screams of being easily abused by older nations.

Every rule can be abused by older players and newer players. Every one. A strict ruleset brings balance if you want a game where players eventually can be set against each other. Without number crunching and a ruleset there is no balance of what people can do or can't or what are they able to face as a nation and what don't. Players being restricted on numbers, population and GDP, is a great way to level the field and bring some balance to the RP arena. Unrestricted roleplaying just allows to have somewhat creative writing roleplay, but little more. I know what happens when people slightly face each other in an RP arena, and it is not pretty.

This is an experiment, I have joined because I think that actually a playing thing with a restrictive ruleset can be more interesting than what I have been doing for 8 years, and that is roleplaying in the way you have been suggesting. There are people like me all around the fora.

However, I can't stop you from not liking the ruleset and the setting. You have the right to do so. However, if you don't like it, you are also in your right of leaving and not even joining, not commentting further if it is not in your interest.

Communities just don't work like that anymore. Successful communities on NS today focus on respect and communication between fellow players and not worrying about trying to play Farmville or Evony on the forums.

Successful? Said communities usually dissappear weithin a couple of months. There is no such things as successful RPing communities. And every community have to focus on respect and communication. Why do you assume this one won't be?

It is way different than playing Evony or Farmville. You are simplifying things, and frankly, doing a pejorative comparison in order to dismiss and diminish the proposal of this player. That is not nice. If you think so, so be it, you did not have to write the long post about it. And hey, what if I want to play farmville on NS? Let me do it, lad, I have the freedom to do so if I please.

Chimera only has one rule: No tech above 1600. Everything else we do is governed not by a expansive rule set, but by the Rule of Cool and the Code of Bro. So long as you're not a douche, troll, or a idiot, you can use whatever it is you think of so long as it abides by the tech rule. The more respect you have in the community, the more people will be willing to RP and let you get away with having.

You came here to advertise your roleplaying community? Is this what are you doing? If it is so, please stop it because it is not a polite thing to do.

The forum as a whole is governed by the rule of cool and the rule of bro, you did not invent those, please refer to the roleplaying stickies. An open RP with those rules is 80% of the time wasted by a douche, troll or idiot trying to overpower people with roleplaying faults. Demon Kings, unrealistic massive concripts armies, monsters, magicians that level the battlefield and whatever you can imagine. Yet I guess this player, Caststar, is trying to do something different. I say let him try.

This, as Ceaden did, still relies on a RTS-like system to govern the way things work. That is not freedom. That limits the ability to create thriving exotic cultures and tell great stories. In Chimera, we don't have to worry about numbers that constrict our ability to RP, or give a unfair advantage to others. We simply communicate with our fellow players and work from there, building a immersive fantasy world that Casestar just doesn't have because it is so dependant of the RTS system.

You have the open RP community for absolute freedom. He's trying to create something else, I can't see what is that is pissing you so much.

I can create a thriving exotic culture and tell a great story with some restrictions in order to give me an amount of balance regarding other players. If you assume you can't you are just giving the restrictions power over yourself. Let's say I create a race of fungus people. My culture is really made of sentient spores. Is it exotic? Yes it is. Is it thriving? Of course, they infect sentients and slowly take controls of them, giving them variety and growth. Are there great stories contained inside this idea? Of course, there is the potential of creating great terror and suspense stories, just to say one thing.

Yet let's imagine my fungus people is not restricted. The spores fly around, and I, as a player, start to infect people in other player's nation. So I get myself an army from their former soldiers, (Wow! This is a great story, fungus zombies and the pain of having to fight former comrades' faces on the battlefield. This is going good so far!), and invade them. They have no technology over 1600, right? Me neither. So I invade them until I crush them undel my heels and now they surrender their ships and lower the shields to be assimilat...Now you see where this is going? What stops me to infect and assimilate your entire country? The rule of cool? This is cool as hell for me, I don't give a fuck if it is not cool for everyone else. The rule of bro? Please, how are you my bro if this is an open setting and I am just coming here to post five times and then dissappear? These things happen all the time. All. The. Time. Eventually, every community faces this kind of thing.

With some restrictions over my fungus people, I can tell exactly the same story without having the power to overwhelm my opponents as I please. Or as I write to please. Powermongering tends to be a disease in Nationstates.

And you keep giving your community advertisement. As I said, that is not polite. Create an advertisement thread for you and your group if you like, but there is no need to do it in other people's threads.

You can't say Caststar does not have immersive fantasy because it even haven't kicked out yet. What is your objective here? To prove that your roleplaying group is better, recruiting, or what? You are saying that the chicken is ugly before the egg hatches.

And frankly, your community is offering me nothing. I already have what you offer in the Nationstates roleplaying open forums. Why should I join a community that is the same thing than the general offer? All I need is to write a thread of a PT roleplay, with the OPEN tag. And pray to get decent roleplaying mates.

And yes, we do screen our applicants before approval, so that may be a turn off to some players, but I'd rather have a community with strong players with well thought out nations, players that can be counted upon to deliver decent length posts and a strong grammatical skill than one that has entire nations based of a simple application factsheet.

Here I find myself agreeing with you. Screening is vital, yet even with screening players tend to get out of hand quickly. I think it was one of the fault sof Ceaden, but then again, it is expected to find a rotten apple everywhere. Or a handful. You just throw them out and carry on.

So I really have to advise you against saying that Casestar is the only freeform FanT community on NS, because it's hardly freeform, nor is it the only FanT community.

And here I agree with you too. Caststar is not the only roleplaying community in Nationstates. And it is not Freeform. That's right, you have a point there.

[Aelosia]

Can someone help me out with the whole "ORBAT" thing?

How can I be of assistance?

midieval

ive seen on NationStates

Are you a journalist? Can you please redirect us to some piece of fiction writing you have done yourself?

[Tuthina]

May I ask if it is okay to claim lands on the other continent? Currently it seems that all claimed countries are located on the right continent, and a quick scan on the old one (I have problem spelling) appears that only one country had set foot on the left continent. As such, I wonder if it is suitable to claim lands there, since apparently we will be isolated for a loooooooong time.

[Kesou]

Caststar “Nation” Name: Korvast
Demonym: Korvan
Race: Human*
Languages: Vayra
Religion: 'The Faith' - a panentheistic, militant religion centered around an 'Allfather', whom governs and is the reason for existance.
Government Type: Direct Democracy
Head of State: Council of Marshals
Seat of Power: Korvast (The City, rather than the nation.)
Currency: Sovereigns
RL Fluency in English: Advanced.
Example of previous RP:
No Anesthesia
No Euthanasia
RL Age: 23.
Population: 10,000 (Starter Population)
Military Size: 349, with the additional possibility of drafting up to approximately 30% of the nation's population in times of dire need in exchange for crippling the economy.
Where you wish to place your land plot: Map
Why you wish to join: I am intrigued by the chance at portraying a proper FanT nation, and simply seek the good life of continuing RP times.
What you wish to spend your Caststar Point on: Military Might.

The next steps:

-Edit focus map with map key information so that other players can interface with your realm. - in the link.
-Begin Intro RP
-Create Fact book
-Declare your military on the Forces Declaration page, with locations of units.
-Complete Intro RP.