[OOC] God, Gatling, and Glory [Steampunk/Imperialism NRP]

[Brink_]

Finished up my application.

[null123]

I see we have a Pseudo-Soviet Union.

[rextremendum]

Yes. We do. It's pretty fucking cool. Personally, my favourite one so far.

[Chairman Stein]

Yes. We do. It's pretty fucking cool. Personally, my favourite one so far.

@rextremendum

[null123]

Yes. We do. It's pretty fucking cool. Personally, my favourite one so far.

@rextremendum

@Chairman Stein

I have no problem with Pseudo-Soviet Union, cause I am making Pseudo-German Empire. I WILL REMEMBER TO HAVE THEM PACK THE WINTER CLOTHES.

[Commodore Robot]

Minus points for copy pasting Italy from Dystopian wars @Brink_ You made the mistake of doing that to one of the ten people in all of the United States who actually plays DW. Otherwise your stuff is fine, just rewrite the military section m80, that ain't kosher.

[rextremendum]

Duck what the fuck are you playing at? We already have like 4 other pseudo-German nations. I was the FUCKING FIRST PSEUDO-GERMANY, and I had to change to France. Don't fucking make it worse. Please God.

[Chairman Stein]

Duck what the fuck are you playing at? We already have like 4 other pseudo-German nations. I was the FUCKING FIRST PSEUDO-GERMANY, and I had to change to France. Don't fucking make it worse. Please God.

@rextremendum

*Quietly sends the Pseudo-French an alliance offer to protect each-other from Pseudo-Krauts.

[rextremendum]

SO... CONFLICTED... On the one hand: Muh Libertarianism On the other: Fuck the Germans

[ASTA]

Starting to wonder if this new wave of plagiarism is going to become an epidemic.

[null123]

Duck what the fuck are you playing at? We already have like 4 other pseudo-German nations. I was the FUCKING FIRST PSEUDO-GERMANY, and I had to change to France. Don't fucking make it worse. Please God.

@rextremendum

...fuck. Alright then, uh, Pseudo-Austria?

[So Boerd]

Starting to wonder if this new wave of plagiarism is going to become an epidemic.

@ASTA

To be perfectly fair, plagiarism means not crediting the original author. Who is the "author" of RL Germany?

[Commodore Robot]

Methinks he's referring to the Dystopian wars fella m8

[rextremendum]

Duck, don't be a nerd. Make something original, or at least not-german. For example, "Libertarian Frenchmen". [but if you steal my fucking nation I will geld you]

[ASTA]

Methinks he's referring to the Dystopian wars fella m8

@Commodore Robot

^

[null123]

Duck, don't be a nerd. Make something original, or at least not-german. For example, "Libertarian Frenchmen". [but if you steal my fucking nation I will geld you]

@rextremendum

The problem is when it comes to RPs like this I tend to need some IRL country to inspire my nation. I really only know about Germany to feel comfortable about creating a Pseudo version of it.

[So Boerd]

Elan calculations: Suppose a hypothetical battleship has a mass of a thousand metric tons. It must be capable of ascent at high speed to be worth anything, BUT since pressurization does not exist, the max altitude is around 8000 feet and unless the crew wants really nasty baurotrama (too rapid depressurization), the ship must rise at a rate no faster than 2.53 meters per second (Research into cabin altitude pressure rate of change gives 500 FPM as industry standard). My research and calculations yielded very interesting results: 1. Gaining alttitude becomes essentially no problem for Elan equipped ships assuming Elan counteracts gravity 100%. In order to accelerate at 0.14 m/s^2 at sea level, a 1000000 kilogram ship only needs an 14 meter radius sphere of helium. My original calculations called for a situation in which the sphere was carried externally, so that factors in the weight if the bottom half of the sphere was armored in one inch of steel. 2. On the other hand, steering is an ENORMOUS engineering challenge. There are essentially no good ways to generate thrust in the 1870s. So suppose our gigagram ship is basically a Pearl Class cruiser in the air. I couldn't find its height, but it sufficiently illustrates my purposes to use its draft (waterline to keel) times its length as though it were a rectangle in cross section. That gives it a windward cross section of about 1060 m^2. According to this website: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/wind-load-d_1775.html A 62.8 mph wind would exert 710200 newtons per second. That means you would have to fire one BL 12 main gun round every 2.5 seconds to counter the momentum change wrought by the wind. Meaning, ships should be spherical to reduce the impact of the wind. I am thinking of other means by which to mitigate the problem posed by winds. Nothing is forthcoming, however. No way to sail against the wind.

[rextremendum]

Ok then. Try the Ottomans, or the canon non-commie russians. They were both world powers, and with some crafty googling [or just reading wikipedia] you could come up with some cool shit. Or you could be unoriginal, because when I want to play some nations RP I want to have some fucking carbon copies of real life nations.