Tidesnap, a Journey Through the Ages Madara OOC

[chrisrawr]

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[Madara]

Hurray. I have an OOC! First order of buisness is to question: You gave us a list of the occupations of our settlers. Can you give more information on the different occupations/ can the 100 settlers be customized?

Also, you said fog of war. How much of the surroundings will do I know?

Edit: Also, can Forts be extended or entirely built underground/within a mountain? How much detail will we go into with our forts? How much is necessary?

Also, thanks again for this awesome game. I think you've done a great job putting it together.

[chrisrawr]

To be honest, I'm almost on the verge of just makin this freeform and keeping track of everyone with some quick-and-dirties. I want to make it work, but I'm also super busy (haven't had time for pbp in over a year now, it's the creative itch I tells ya!)

Mostly, settler 'classes' are just the loose groupings of what you want to do, backed by roleplay and story telling. If you want amazing heroes and leaders, show them doing something amazing, etc. Im tracking your settlement's overall ability by 'generation' (their reproduction speed) and their lifespan -- a second generation miner will get more credits per action out of mining than a new one, unless you're singling him out in your story telling of course. But likewise, a miner with dozens of years of experience will be better than even a 30th generation miner that's brand new - I've got a java loop that keeps track of and spews out rough efficiencies for me to process your turns based on average age and generation for any arbitrary class, basically letting you do whatever you want -- most of your populations will have rudimentary skills doing mundane tasks, it's really only when you want to make credits by depleting resources that you have to create a class. I'd prefer you created your own classes that did their own things their own ways, in order to facilitate your story-telling, but if that doesn't work I'll dirty-up some cookie-cutters.

I've got a lab and an exam in the morning! Sorry I couldnt answer more, I really must be sleeping hours ago xD

Edit realquick: yes underground and mountain-homes will be available and usable, I've arbitrated it to some fancy defensive bonuses and some generational anomalies that will crop up as you move towards undergrounding it. I just really don't want to keep track of z-levels :P

[Madara]

Good to know. Perhaps you could try to find a balance between freeform and rules. Or you could leave a few more things up to the dice?

Let's see about a few classes....


The Apons currently have only a few general work groups/ catagories for their people. I will position it by classes.
(The "in" is taken from "Goblin" in the same way we use "man" from human in our words)
Upper
Seekins(General Researcher, non-magica; Also engineers!)

Middle Class
Speakins(Priests of the pantheon)
Shocklin (Generic Soldiers)
Familin (Society/ Cultural center; Stay-at-home parents, and school teachers)

Lower Class
Splitters(Lumber-Gathering)
Apick(Miners, gather both stone and minerals)
Staggers(Current Merchants; all they do is transfer materials to the town.)

[Madara]

I take it I'm waiting for the others before I get an IC?