With my month of bullshit finally behind me, it's time to start up something I wanted to begin as part of my New Year's Resolution:
LET'S MAKE A MAP!Who?You! All of you! But nobody else.
What?You heard me, we're making a map! For, of all things, a very special Arms Race! You don't have to be interested in playing the Arms Race to participate in the Map Making process, but as the game will be between Bay12 and a second community, the larger the collective voice representing this niche community, the better!
When?Now! Starting from the moment I hit post, you will all have 24 hours to come up with and vote on your favorite terrains for the prompt you are given. You will then be given another prompt to fulfill, and the process will repeat over the course of 7 days.
Where?Here, on the forum! While it is not necessary, you can also join
This Discord Server where I will ping people when there are updates.
Why?With the coming of the new year and two people demolishing my will to continue my previous Arms Race, I decided I'd do something I'd always wanted to do: throw the two communities I enjoy engaging with at one another in a devastating fight to the death. Normally I'd just set up an Arms Race and fire it up, but you guys here have something the other side doesn't: hella experience actually playing arms races. In an effort to provide some level of balance without providing favor to one side,
The Black Pants Legion will be using the coming week to determine what sort of proposals receive a natural +1 bonus from the setting. Mechs, chemical weapons, bolt-action rifles, wizards...the parameters of the bonus will be entirely up to them. Both sides will receive the bonus, and it will be notated properly with each result, but the Bay12 team will never be explicitly told what the bonus applies to. But then I thought about how it might be nice to also let
you guys have a say in the final battleground. For the sake of being thorough (and not Thoreau), regardless of what receives a bonus, the tech level and setting will be knocked around relative to World War 1.
How?I'll write a small prompt, and you guys will write up proposals that fulfill any requests made in said prompt. If you like a prompt, you can vote for it using a quote box that includes a name for the proposal, a tally for number of votes, and a list of voter names as follows:
This Land (2): Toady Two, Tarm
That Land (0):
Your Mom (1): m1895
Note that, while I will be prioritizing using the most popular choice, I will be making a few rough drafts for the final map and may throw some variables in if a vote is very close. Once the seven days are complete I will present the rough drafts for one final vote before we move on. While I hope to start the game itself soon after the map is complete, we will need to wait on making sure the BPL has the proper infrastructure set up and has had any basic beginner questions about Arms Races answered.
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The First Natural Barrier/BorderBefore defining the land you will be desecrating, we must determine what lies beyond it. For the next 24 hours, you will discuss and determine the following:
What is the natural barrier?
Which direction does it sit in (use cardinal and/or intercardinal directions)?
Provide a brief description of what sort of terrain sits beyond the border.
This first barrier will determine the terrain on the extremes of one of the flanks. The terrain beyond will determine a little fluff for the Arms Race itself, but nothing more.