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[Kaleb702 Games]

IC

In the beginning, there was nothing. Then, out of the darkness of the void, came something.

After thousands of years of planets forming, eventually there was life. And from life evolved sapience. And now, you are at the dawn of civilization, and are ready to create your first settlement for your tribe. You are done with hunting and gathering, or scavenging, or whatever your diet consists of. Your species will grow, and begin taking over the world.

But after the world... what happens then? After the galaxy, what then?


What happens if you get Civilization, combine it with Spore, then make it less strict about numbers? This happens.

The only things that have to have numbers assigned to them are research. Anything else you just describe.

Posting template:

All that's needed is the information left below, not in the specific order:

Date in-game (format this based on your species)

Actions in prose

Research and population statistics; prose about them preferred.

Any other statistics required

Example:

March 12th, 1909

On this day, we destroyed the HECK out of that other nation. Wow, those guys sucked.

Our research has been going well. We have approximately five-eighths (5/8) of progress to figuring out how we can use electricity, crudely. For instance, just the other day that one guy made a fire with it. It lasted for five seconds then burned his house down.

Our population has increased from five thousand to five thousand and a quarter (1,250) since 1905.

Tips:

• Remember that the other player is also a person wanting to have fun; allow them to win at times.
• Research is always in fractions, and starts at 1. For instance: "We begin working on finding a way to create fire. 1/5" This goes up by 1 for each post unless you have a breakthrough of some sorts. (Like someone giving you their data) The only rules here are making it realistic. No researching electricity in a turn unless you're advanced enough to do that. No creating magical shamwows.
• You're not limited to things mentioned in the rules, but rules may be added if it's an exploit. You could create a rocket, then crash it into the moon to cause it to break apart for instance. Note that by the time you have that technology, a council of nations would probably have formed to create laws against nuking the moon.
• Realism is less important than believability, but realism can override it at times. But things like faster than light travel, though impossible, can be explained good enough to be believable, allowing them to exist.
• Have good grammar, and make your posts interesting to read.
• Make SOMETHING happen in your post. It can't be just a "research and done" post, unless the research is interesting.

Locations:

Maps of the planets and other things.

Xyntus - accepting people - dawn of civilization. Map,  description.

Civilizations:

Basically, you make a species. It can be split into several civilizations, but generally starts as one. An infinite number of people can join, but eventually your species will be destroyed if you don't play it too much. (Judged by real time) A player can have only one species, but they can control factions of other species' if their creator consents.

The Zocl race - Zocl tribe - Kaleb702's.
IamanElfCollaborator - Cactisapien.
10ebbor10 - Squamatae Volans.
jaass - Silicoids.
Sign up sheet

Rules:

• Combat needs to be fair. List stats, buildings, and other details before combat if wanted, but mainly just stop from squabbling.
• Realism is required, but mainly believability. If you can believe it, then it is better than being realistic, or even possible.
• Note the laws of physics; every action has a reaction. You can't fight in a war and not suffer.
• Take your time advancing and doing things. This is like Civilization on epic length.
• Anyone can join at any time, but you need clearance from the gamemaster to start.
• Don't completely destroy other peoples' civs without their OOC consent achieved through PMs. The one being destroyed has to PM the gamemaster to allow it.
• Follow standard roleplay rules. No meta, no powergaming...
• There must be 2 post or 1 day (whichever is shortest) between the posts of one player, unless roleplaying requires otherwise. (e.g. trans-species conversations)
• If you have less IC posts than the turnometer, skip ahead to where you would be if you had as many turns as the turnometer had. If you are at the turnometer, take one turn and add it to the turnometer.

The only gamemaster powers are ensuring that civilization annihilations between users are OOCly consented to, allowing people to join, creating new planets or star systems when they're full, updating maps, and appointing the next gamemaster. The current gamemaster is me. The next gamemaster will be appointed once the IC thread has 100 pages.


Okay so criticize, join, and other things. Heavily inspired by the Spore version which is now defunct. I am pretty sure there isn't something like this, but I might not have searched with the correct terms.

[10ebbor10]

Interesting. Might sign up.

Am I alright to assume this a more or less freeform game without strict rules?

[RulerOfNothing]

Yeah, this looks interesting. I guess I'll see what happens.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Reserved, I want to see what happens as well.

[Kaleb702 Games]

Interesting. Might sign up.

Am I alright to assume this a more or less freeform game without strict rules?

Yeah.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Template for submitting species please?

[Kaleb702 Games]

... I did not forget that. Nope. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooope

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Name: Cactisapien
Picture or physical description: Sentient, humanoid,mobile cacti.
Racial characteristics: Can shoot spines when angered or surprised, resistant to thirst.
Biography: Nomadic, only beginning to settle down.
Solar system, planet, where is the planet: Xynthus, the mainland, center area
Technologies: Wheel, carts and wagons, domestication, vocal tradition.
Building to start with: Stockyard.
Anything you want to add: VERY good with body language

[10ebbor10]

More questions. Do we all have to start on the same planet. I assume so, but in that case I'd like some more information.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Athmospherical pressure: (Low pressure means lower temperature and lower air resitance, and vice versa. This gives interesting things, as low airpressure can make giant, but not powerfull storms happen and high pressure will make it easier for giant, slow fliers to exist)
Athmosphere composition: (Usefull for a lot of things. The oxygen percentage will be higher as the pressure drops. High oxygen levels make fire more likely, as well as improving insectoid breathing systems )
Length of a year (Decides amongst other on how fast the seasons follow)
Length of a day (Duh)
Moon-planet rotation time (Controls the tides, though the moon might be to small to do it.)
Excentricity of solar orbit: (Having a high excentricity means there will be a warm half of the year and a cold half of the year. As such it's possible that the North of the Equator you always have hot summers and cold winters, while down South you get warmer than normal winters and colder than normal summers)
Excentricity of lunar orbit: Influences the tides, so that you can have stronger and weaker ones.(Not the explanation for Earth's tides)
Planetary axis aligment: Determines the temperature difference between Summers and Winters, as well as the size of the Artic circle
Lunar axis alignment: Determines how the floods move, and if the sun can influence them.
Amount of variation in the above (Self explanatory)
...

I know it's a complicated amount of questions, and I'm perfectly comfortable with not getting an answer.

[Kaleb702 Games]

Ooh excellent. That'll be a very useful sheet. I'll implement that in several minutes. Yes, you do have to start on the same planet for now. I'll add in a second planet once we hit five players, so that we don't overcrowd or undercrowd anyone.

EDIT:
Answered. Read the new description.

[10ebbor10]

I can add some more though.

Tectonic activity is good one, for example. As are distance to the Sun*, and the strength of the magnetic field.

*Though this one is intertwined with the length of the year, the excentricity of the orbit and the size of planet.

[TopHat]

PTW. This looks interesting.

[10ebbor10]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Atmospheric pressure: High enough that a human sized bird would be able to glide. ((Since I believe the planet had lower than standard gravity, this suggests a slightly lower than Earth pressure))
9.Atmosphere composition: 29.946% oxygen. ((A bit higher than normal oxygen level. More active and larger creatures?))
10.Length of a year 400 days (Nice round number
11.Length of a day 30 hours((Idem)
12.Moon-planet rotation time 30 hours ((This means that the moon would be tidally locked, and as such, would remain above the same place all the time. Hence there would be no tides. Unless the moon rotates against the sense of the planetary rotation, but that would be weird.))
13.Eccentricity of solar orbit: Enough so that there are three seasons: medium, wet, medium, dry, in that order. Each lasts 25% of the year. ((This actually suggests more of a moesson mechanic than an actual distinction in seasons. Wet would be the hot seasons, and the dry would be the colder season. So probably a low excentricity))
14.Eccentricity of lunar orbit: Medium. ((Interesting))
15.Planetary axis aligment: The axis alignment is standard. However, the planet is unable to support an arctic circle due to a high geothermal energy.
16.Lunar axis alignment: Standard.
17.Amount of variation in the above: Varies heavily.((This implies that the planet can have sudden geologistical shifts))

Also, sorry for the inaccuracy of the explanations given before. The effects are quite complicated to explain, and I'm not that good at it.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Is my submission decent enough? I posted it when I was rushing to get to school, so...

[Kaleb702 Games]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Atmospheric pressure: High enough that a human sized bird would be able to glide. ((Since I believe the planet had lower than standard gravity, this suggests a slightly lower than Earth pressure)) Retgonned
9.Atmosphere composition: 29.946% oxygen. ((A bit higher than normal oxygen level. More active and larger creatures?)) Yes
10.Length of a year 400 days (Nice round number exactly
11.Length of a day 30 hours((Idem)
12.Moon-planet rotation time 30 hours ((This means that the moon would be tidally locked, and as such, would remain above the same place all the time. Hence there would be no tides. Unless the moon rotates against the sense of the planetary rotation, but that would be weird.)) rotating the opposite way is hilariously dumb. it has to be done.
13.Eccentricity of solar orbit: Enough so that there are three seasons: medium, wet, medium, dry, in that order. Each lasts 25% of the year. ((This actually suggests more of a moesson mechanic than an actual distinction in seasons. Wet would be the hot seasons, and the dry would be the colder season. So probably a low excentricity)) right low eccentricity
14.Eccentricity of lunar orbit: Medium. ((Interesting))
15.Planetary axis aligment: The axis alignment is standard. However, the planet is unable to support an arctic circle due to a high geothermal energy.
16.Lunar axis alignment: Standard.
17.Amount of variation in the above: Varies heavily.((This implies that the planet can have sudden geologistical shifts)) exactly.

Also, sorry for the inaccuracy of the explanations given before. The effects are quite complicated to explain, and I'm not that good at it.

Will read submissions in a minute.

EDIT:

Name: Cactisapien
Picture or physical description: Sentient, humanoid,mobile cacti.
Racial characteristics: Can shoot spines when angered or surprised, resistant to thirst.
Biography: Nomadic, only beginning to settle down.
Solar system, planet, where is the planet: Xynthus, the mainland.
Technologies: Wheel, carts and wagons, domestication.
Building to start with: Stockyard.
Anything you want to add: None.

Accepted if you specify what part of the mainland.