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[Archangel]

Just finished reading those rules. Sounds good so far.

[Neruz]

Sleep time for me now, i'll see if i can finish the abstractish rules tomorrow and then start taping numbers to them.

Any suggestions are appreciated too btw; being as this is a forum game the players can make stuff up and i can stick numbers on it, something you can't do in a game game.

[Nirur Torir]

I changed my mind, I want to play. Maybe as a merchant guildmaster.

[Servant Corps]

If you're going to have an AoR with everyone controlling one city, you're going to need to introduce some competition.

I suggest a AoR Mafia then. Some of the players (maybe even the King himself) are traitors trying to sabotage the Empire. Loyalists must find and destroy the traitors, the traitors must cause for the Empire to disintegrate, playing the Loyalists against each other.

[thunderclan]

Just read the rules. Sounds like this will be quite interesting.

[Kashyyk]

I like the look of this also.

[AussieGuy]

This looks very good. I'll take a hunting guild master

[Neruz]

If you're going to have an AoR with everyone controlling one city, you're going to need to introduce some competition.

I suggest a AoR Mafia then. Some of the players (maybe even the King himself) are traitors trying to sabotage the Empire. Loyalists must find and destroy the traitors, the traitors must cause for the Empire to disintegrate, playing the Loyalists against each other.

There will be NPC's i control that will not all be friendly, and of course this being Bay12 i fully expect somone will attempt to stage a Coup, considering individual players may build and run armies if they so choose.

Plus, players can take a settlement team, wander off somewhere and secede from the King.


All the players in one city is merely a starting condition to get everyone interacting with each other from the word go, as opposed to the normal AoR where the players seem to spend ages all alone. I don't expect it to remain that way indefinitely.

[Archangel]

I'd be a general or head of the police/city watch.

[Neruz]

TIEM FOR SUM MOAR RUELS!

Spoiler: Technologies (click to show/hide)

Research! Ideas! Advancing your civilisation through the ages. Doing this is real simple; just assign Labour to research. Due to the somewhat sporadic nature of useful ideas most of the time you'll just get useless junk, but every now and then some bright spark will come up with penicillin (or something), once you have the idea developing it into a usable technology is just a matter of applying sufficient Labour and resources.
Some ideas will require other technologies before they have a chance to appear, others may appear too early to be of any use. Ideas are flighty things.

You do have some control over what ideas you'll come up with. Ovbiously the more Labour you dedicate to thinking, the more likely you are to get something useful. Places of learning, libraries, trained teachers, scientists and historians etc will also improve the efficiency of your Idearing (new word!) and you can dedicate your people to searching for specific ideas (like 'look for ways to improve food production in farms'.) This will increase the chance that you get what you're looking for, but it's still possible that you'll get something entirely unrelated, just less so.

It's also important to note that your overall chance of getting a useful idea increases if you just throw money and resources at your scientists and tell them to go wild, although your chance of getting something specific is of course dramatically decreased. Aren't Ideas fun?

Spoiler: Expansion (click to show/hide)

At any time a player can choose to go set up shop somewhere else. This basically involves choosing a number of people, loading them up with resources and sending them off somewhere else. There aren't really any limits on how many you send or what resources you send with them (although ovbiously if you want them to carry much they're gonna need wagons and draft horses, and food and water if they don't intend to starve or drown) but if the colonists arrive at their new home and find that they have no wood nor tools to get some, they're gonna need to start importing things.

Colonising a new area plonks down a city somewhere in a World Hex, you'll get to pick exactly where. Whoever led the colonists will have full control over the new city (unlike the partial control of the home city) although other players may decide to go usurp him.

That looks like the basics. I won't bother trying to add everything (like what happens when you invent writing and paper) since that would be impossible, instead as each new thing pops up i'll stick numbers onto it.

I'll look into finalising the basic ruleset (with numbers) sometime in the next few days, including explanations as to how combat works and soforth. Again, suggestions are welcome.

Game should start sometime in the next week or so, depending on how everything goes.

[Aqizzar]

As part of my effort to move back into the Games section, I'd love to join in.  I've never played one of these Age of Restoration games, but ever since I ran it's ancestor in Evolution I've been interested in them.  Combining the efforts of players into managing different aspects of one civilization instead of competing with each other is also appealing for it's group-theory potential.

So yeah, sign me up.  Actually having an education in civil service, I can promise to be a competent and efficient administrator of whatever post you care to stick me in.

[Neruz]

Well i'm just going to stick all the players in a big pit and have them fight to the death over the roles.

Aka. First come. First serve. I also fully expect this to become a massive clusterfuck by about turn 3, but hey, clusterfucks are fun.

[NUKE9.13]

Guildmaster of Non-Violent* Food Acquisition (Farming and Fishing), reporting for duty.

*Sharks, whales, angry sea turtles and pineapples are the problem of the department of hunting.

[Aqizzar]

Should we wait patiently for our proto-nation's founding to start divvying out proper chambers, or just seize the reigns of power now while everyone's confused?

If the latter, whatever position I wind up in, I'll be writing a constitution and leading a popular revolt to see everyone put in their most fitting seats, and ensure a more orderly division of power in the future.

[NUKE9.13]

Oh yeah?
You try to take my NVFA position away from me, and I will seriously consider complaining!

More seriously, who cares for order? Just grab a spot, pull down the safety bar, and keep your limbs inside the ride at all times. Or not, whatever floats your boat. A natural order will evolve later in the game.