Rare said
Of course It'll take years until it's done, but I want to know how are we going to know when a year has passed.

AegonVI said
And, that canal would be going through a super hilly area...

AegonVI said
And, that canal would be going through a super hilly area...

TheSovereignGrave said
But what if people are occupied with a meeting or something that's only going to take a couple of days? I think the more difficult part isn't determining how much time has passed, but rather synching up everything that's going on in the world.

Golem said
Through the mountains, as it were... but maybe there's a pass or something it could be dug through. As for the passage of time in-game, I haven't figured that out yet. An idea would be to play the game in seasons; each player has, say, three actions per season (troop movement, delegations to other nations, construction, etc). The seasons will be played in three IRL day intervals. Didn't use your actions of the season? Your loss. Or something like that. What do you think?

TheSovereignGrave said
I'm not a big fan of systems like that, to be honest. As for the canal, it looks like there is a small section of non-mountainous terrain that it could go through.

Jonesy said
I'd prefer seeing a year go by every 18 days or so, because battles that last a week in game could take 6 days to roleplay. This also allows more detailed roleplay such as delegations to move forward while an army training academies take 9 days. Also, since there's gonna be 10 different storylines. It'd be cool if at the top of your post, you put which nations are affected by said post.

Golem said
What if each season took a week? That'd give people a month of IRL time to complete a year in game. And maybe more actions. Is 7 actions too many?

Golem said
I'm just afraid the game will stagnate in political discussion if we don't limit time somehow. It's happened a lot before to these kinds of games.

TheSovereignGrave said
I actually prefer the political discussion over the warmongering, to be honest.