Imperial (closed due to immense e-hate, pm if you like the concept)

[UltikanaRe]

Closed. A reboot may come out.

[Dinh AaronMk]

In one day you pumped out three interest check ideas. I'm wondering if you should probably lay to rest your GM dreams. Especially since you shut down all your other attempts. If you really want to improve your "world building" try joining in on existing RPs. There exists a balance of population between GMs and players which you're obviously overbearing with the same ideas. Please, join more RPs. You obviously have the time if you think you can GM one or three or five. So please, just join an NRP.

[rextremendum]

This is kind of sad. It is like a little baby trying to break down a wall with nothing but its skull. You think "Maybe today daddy will love me", and every day you realize that he never will, but you can never stop trying. Way to ruin my fucking good mood, asshat. The world would benefit from your suicide, and you would too.

[ASTA]

The Romanticisation of European Imperialism: Thread Number 285

[zombieaccount]

The Romanticisation of European Imperialism: Thread Number 285

@ASTA

I agree. Romanticizing imperial China or Mongollian conquests needs to be done more. Mongolians need to have some white washing sometimes. They did after all make the Silk Road safe and secure along with connect much of Asia in their reign.

[Dinh AaronMk]

The Romanticisation of European Imperialism: Thread Number 285

@ASTA

I agree. Romanticizing imperial China or Mongollian conquests needs to be done more. Mongolians need to have some white washing sometimes. They did after all make the Silk Road safe and secure along with connect much of Asia in their reign.

@zombieaccount

Or...

[ASTA]

The Romanticisation of European Imperialism: Thread Number 285

@ASTA

I agree. Romanticizing imperial China or Mongollian conquests needs to be done more. Mongolians need to have some white washing sometimes. They did after all make the Silk Road safe and secure along with connect much of Asia in their reign.

@zombieaccount

NRP section (and, arguably, much of RPG in general) only recognizes three 'distinct' civilizations and noteworthy events during the course of human history: 1) Anything and everything that has to do with Rome 2) Any civilization in Medieval Europe 3) Any of the prominent colonial empires present during the European Colonial Period (Portugal, Spain, Britain, the Netherlands, Russia, and France) 4) WWI (exceedingly rare) and WWII (exceedingly common) Honorable mentions and petty hat-tips are given to the continent of Asia (this, of course, doesn't include India, while Russia is somewhat of an enigma when it comes to Russians desperately trying to conclude whether or not they're Europeans or Asians), but the Chinese and Japanese are universally considered to be pleb-tier peoples that produced shit-tier civilizations that are only worthy of begrudging acknowledgement from the West because they made good cannons, rockets, compasses, and PS4s. The Middle East is something that no one cares about. Naturally, the Americas and Africa are the bitches of anyone that's wearing a pickelhaube. Or in Africa's case, a pickelhaube or a keffiyeh. EDIT: One could argue that the fascination for the West merely stems from the fact that this forum, being an English-speaking board, is predominantly populated by Westerners and people of European ancestral stock.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Chancellor Cao Cao is a pretty bad ass person, muttering of Asia.

[UltikanaRe]

True, I do have a lot of interest checks. But I also have joined several role-plays. I write fast, and people tell me I also write well. I know most will fail, but I figured I would put a few out there and see which ones were liked. Also, people generally like playing as what they know. But for what its worth, I was planning on playing Japanese-Steampunk.

[Vilageidiotx]

Chancellor Cao Cao is a pretty bad ass person, muttering of Asia.

@Dinh AaronMk

I got hundreds of thousands of words in on an African faction. Precipice of War is the exception that proves the rule, I think.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Chancellor Cao Cao is a pretty bad ass person, muttering of Asia.

@Dinh AaronMk

I got hundreds of thousands of words in on an African faction. Precipice of War is the exception that proves the rule, I think.

@Vilageidiotx

I wrote an entire post about a fictional Chinese opera that was half the length of a novel. Am I cool too, Vilage-senpai?

[Pepperm1nts]

Aaron holds the record for least interaction with fellow players in any and all RPs.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Aaron holds the record for least interaction with fellow players in any and all RPs.

@Pepperm1nts

SPEAKING OF WHICH, MASTER HUGS.

[UltikanaRe]

Does anybody want to post something constructive?

[Vilageidiotx]

Does anybody want to post something constructive?

@UltikanaRe

If you change the dating system from "PPC" to "PCP", it will sound cooler because it will be like... PCP. The map size is crazy-ridiculous. If one pixel is 250 km^2, that would mean your rivers, at their thinnest, are 250 km across. Which is pretty intense. And also, how does an electrical musket work? Surely they figured out rifling and breech-loading before they figured out laser sights.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Does anybody want to post something constructive?

@UltikanaRe

If you change the dating system from "PPC" to "PCP", it will sound cooler because it will be like... PCP. The map size is crazy-ridiculous. If one pixel is 250 km^2, that would mean your rivers, at their thinnest, are 250 km across. Which is pretty intense. And also, how does an electrical musket work? Surely they figured out rifling and breech-loading before they figured out laser sights.

@Vilageidiotx

To add: The map is offensive, speaking as a artist. The colors are offensively bright and over saturated. On top of that the text is difficult to read. Color tones on maps are hardly that vibrant, specially if you're going to have writing on them. The textures - though I can understand using them, to make them not as dull - only makes it worse by further saturating the colors and creating a heavy noise that's making the writing really hard to see. I'd also criticize the whole concept of Steampunk, since it all too often comes off as a way to claim some sort of modern fantasy vibe. And is used in such a way the original concept of Steampunk as a science-fiction theme has been completely lost. It falls into the category of literary thought that if it has "punk" as an affix it's immediately "cool". It's just bland and lost now. You also deviate from the primary aesthetic of Steampunk by deviating into other fields of development that is hardly steam-powered.

[Vilageidiotx]

Does anybody want to post something constructive?

@UltikanaRe

If you change the dating system from "PPC" to "PCP", it will sound cooler because it will be like... PCP. The map size is crazy-ridiculous. If one pixel is 250 km^2, that would mean your rivers, at their thinnest, are 250 km across. Which is pretty intense. And also, how does an electrical musket work? Surely they figured out rifling and breech-loading before they figured out laser sights.

@Vilageidiotx

To add: The map is offensive, speaking as a artist. The colors are offensively bright and over saturated. On top of that the text is difficult to read. Color tones on maps are hardly that vibrant, specially if you're going to have writing on them. The textures - though I can understand using them, to make them not as dull - only makes it worse by further saturating the colors and creating a heavy noise that's making the writing really hard to see. I'd also criticize the whole concept of Steampunk, since it all too often comes off as a way to claim some sort of modern fantasy vibe. And is used in such a way the original concept of Steampunk as a science-fiction theme has been completely lost. It falls into the category of literary thought that if it has "punk" as an affix it's immediately "cool". It's just bland and lost now.

@Dinh AaronMk

But I like steampunk =( Though I do have to say, you might want to dial down some of the tech. Technology tends to have implications of other potential technologies. Bioengineering would require either magic, or advanced computer technology. And if you have chemical engines, you probably don't use steam anymore, so you lose the steam in steampunk.

[Dinh AaronMk]

And if you're using electrical engineering as well than Steam doesn't become as useful a means for powering your machines. It ends up becoming less useful than it should be and electrical works becomes the primary in many respects. Or competes with gas-powered machines in their respective fields. Steam then becomes terribly niche. Then congratulations: you got a world set up like the 21st century while still trying to validate 19th century musketry where there are tanks rolling around shooting napalm. Oh, and Deathclaws.

[rextremendum]

Right - anyone here want to play a World War 1-era game, where Asian and African cultures are all over the shop, and it is not fucking retarded like the dieselpunk game?

[UltikanaRe]

Moved this to a different forum. Much less hate.