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[RulerOfNothing]

#2 and #4 sound interesting to me.

[10ebbor10]

On a side note, it would be wrong to be me to describe 4 as high fantasy. Depending on playstyle, it's quite possible to end up with Victorian tech/ magitech by mid/end game.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Ooh, Gaslamp Fantasy!

[evilcherry]

Actually I've a basic idea about my civ... waiting for an IN.

[10ebbor10]

Here are some preliminary mechanics. Might change in the future. As you can see, the initial start is quite city state ish.

Spoiler: Nation sign-up sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:
Short History and Description:
Other Miscellaneous information

Capital  [Population: 5]
       - Minor Defenses (Short description of them)
       - 4 Starting villages of a type of choice

Army:
       - 2 units of choice

Science and Magic
       - 5 Technologies (Can be both ideas and Inventions)

Spoiler: Science (click to show/hide)

Infrastructure
    - Travel by Sea
    - Travel by air
    - Travel by Ground
    - Underground Construction
    - Large Construction
    - Reinforced Construction
    - Fast Travel
    - Mass Travel
    - Urban infrastructure
    - Transmitting Power

Economical Organization
    - Engineering
    - Biology
    - Chemistry
    - Mining
    - Agriculture
    - Gathering

Economical Inventions
    - Livestock
    - Steam Power
    - Division of Labour
    - Mechanisms
    - Breeding

Military Doctrine
    - Defensive Doctrine
    - Aggressive Doctrine
    - Infantry Doctrine
    - Ranged Doctrine
    - Cavalry Doctrine
    - Artillery Doctrine
    - Supply Trains
    - Foraging
    - Undercover

Military Inventions
    - Mounted Troops
    - Amphibious troops
    - Poison
    - Defensive fortifications
    - Formations
    - Dedicated armies
    - Trained militia

Spoiler: Magic Ideas (click to show/hide)

Infrastructure
   - Mana wells
   - Mana Crystals
   - Runes
   - ...

Economical Organization
    - Enchantments
    - Magical Husbandry
    - ...

Economical Inventions
    - ....

Schools of Magic
   - To be added here

Military Inventions
    - ....

I'm still taking new ideas for both the classes. Do note that these are mere ideas. Taking Travel by air as your first pick won't do anything. Unless you have the required prerequisites, it will stay just that, an idea.

Effects will be added later.

[Dariush]

Could you please clearly explain the way magic is going to work?

[Patrick Hunt]

I'll have a sheet up by morning.

For formations do we design our own or does it just cover them all?

[10ebbor10]

Could you please clearly explain the way magic is going to work?

Explaining, yes. Clearly, might be hard.

Instead of that, you get a general explanation of how science works. Whenever you amass enough science points, or whatever I'm going to use for that, you can choose to either get 1 new idea, or 1 new invention. An invention is made by combining several ideas. For example:

-Travel by Sea + Mass Travel => Long range galleons
-Magical Husbandry + Mounted Troops => Troops mounted on Magical animals

Individual formations would be (though don't need to be) developed in this way.

Also, a lot things hasn't been added yet, so making a sheet based on this is pointless.

For magic, you need to have source of magic (Infrastructure), and then some offensive spells. (Developed as inventions). The amount of magical power determines how usefull they are in battle. Magical wells are for example very useful for domestic production, but not mobile enough for defense. For that you might want to use mana crystals. Runes are something like inscribing spelld.

[Dariush]

Whenever you amass enough science points, or whatever I'm going to use for that, you can choose to either get 1 new idea, or 1 new invention.

Why not use something realistic instead, like gaining progress to specific ideas based on the usage of previous ideas? (i.e. you gradually and automatically get more advanced farming tools if you have a nation of farmers but you won't be able to have a nation of farmers with stone tools and out of nowhere instaresearch mounted knights with guns and laserships)

[Tomcost]

I'm filling a sheet, but mostly because of a sudden idea rather than a true desire to play a game which hasn't been totally planified. (This doen't mean that I won't play, but I will decide when this is properly armed).

Spoiler: The heighteners (click to show/hide)

Name: The Heighteners
Short History and Description: originally formed by a group of renegade engineers, this nation has been the maximum exponent of efficiency. It's name at first may puzzle newcomers, as the first thing they would see after getting near a Heightener city would be a plain with some tube-like buildings seemingly protunding from the land itself. And as they are invited to come into the deep and vast vertical networks of tunnels that connect the city, their confusion levels begin to rise at an alarming rate. It is just after visiting the third or fourth floor, that they finally get it. The Heighteners seek absolute height.

Other Miscellaneous information: cities are built underground, vertically. This means that there is a level for most of the city districts, and that transport is done by basic elevators and stairs rather than horizontal walking. The main line of defense from these cities are spears, which, despite being paradoxically horrible at such colse quarters, are actually pretty effective implements when having to prevent something from coming down, and excel in lethally wounding anything unfortunate enough to slip and fall over them.

Capital: The Underdeeps  [Population: 5]
       - Minor Defenses: collapsable trenchs, tunnel network.
       - Villages: small little versions of The Underdeeps. Mainly mining colonies.

Army:
       - Two Phalanxes

Science and Magic:
- Underground magic agriculture.
- Mana wells.
- Underground construction.
- Urban infraestructure.
- Mining.

I know that it may be pretty impossible to get a nation like this at the start of the game, but I think that I will aim at something like this in the long-term.

[10ebbor10]

Whenever you amass enough science points, or whatever I'm going to use for that, you can choose to either get 1 new idea, or 1 new invention.

Why not use something realistic instead, like gaining progress to specific ideas based on the usage of previous ideas? (i.e. you gradually and automatically get more advanced farming tools if you have a nation of farmers but you won't be able to have a nation of farmers with stone tools and out of nowhere instaresearch mounted knights with guns and laserships)

Not the way it works actually. I mean, if you don't have a correct prerequisitive technologies, the idea remains an idea.

And slow progress is very intensive to research.

[Dariush]

Well then, in my suggestion replace "idea" with "technology" and add manual research ability of specific ones. I still think that generic science points that can be spent on anything are unrealistic bullshit.

[evilcherry]

I'm not sure that the dichotomy between "idea" and "Tech" to be that distinct TBH.

[RulerOfNothing]

A few questions 10ebbor10:

• Are all of the things you've listed so far ideas, or are there some technologies?
• If they are all ideas, how would we go about getting farms (if we don't start off with them or something)?
• For that matter, what abilities do we start off with (if any)?
• Is there a limit to how many ideas we can combine to form a tech, or can we combine as many ideas as makes sense?

As for my nation/citystate/whatever, I think I'm going to reprise Torkal (apparently just "Torkal") from Dolusil and take over the world with enchantments and superior organisation.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Instead of that, you get a general explanation of how science works. Whenever you amass enough science points, or whatever I'm going to use for that, you can choose to either get 1 new idea, or 1 new invention. An invention is made by combining several ideas. For example:
-Travel by Sea + Mass Travel => Long range galleons
-Magical Husbandry + Mounted Troops => Troops mounted on Magical animals

...Noted. I will try mixing semi-contradictory ideas and see if I get swordguns or something.

Magical wells are for example very useful for domestic production, but not mobile enough for defense.

Do you mean offense?


Should we post some character sheets?