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But EoD3 won't end till someone wins v;
MOPSEE!Tiruu-chan! We'll be island BFFs!
You don't like living under Leopold's thumb? But I enjoy our strategy discussion. It's the main reason I haven't backstabbed you even.I've learned some things about the game from talking to you as well, but in the long run it gets tiresome to not have any strategic wiggle room.
Oh! Haspen, have you considered doing an East Asia one of these at some point? Plenty of Islands and history there to use, too.
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http://diplom.org/Email/judge/asia.asc.html
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Feel free to make me a map using EoD standard colors and I will host one v;
I don't mind less competition...but you had a really well written Character Mopsy-I hope you're quitting wasn't anything to do with the discussion about how we were going to implement a captain? Seems you wanted a Democracy sort of thing-I wouldn't mind that (all players would have to very active for it to work), but I also want just one persons hand on the wheel determining when it's time to move, so we don't get mucked up...
Anyway-Hope you change your mind, but if not, well I hope we run into each other in another game.
I honestly think we need a chain of command to keep things flowing-free form games need strong direction. If we spend every turn waiting for everyone to vote on a destination, we're going to make everything run slow as sludge-one guy can hold us up for weeks, and if the discussion peters out no one might be willing to go ahead. I know, because I've tried this. It doesn't work. When we are on planet, people have latitude to do what they want-but overall decisions about the ship need to be left to just a few, active people. IMO. A Captain and a second in command, and not much more.
I have pretty strong feelings about this.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=154786.75 <--take a look at what happened to my game where just less than half a dozen people had to decide on three or four ways forward. A spirited discussion, then it just ends and no one picks it up, because no one wants to make a choice. LOL. I should have killed them all by now...as gig will probably blow our ship up if we spend too much time floating in space waiting for Tiruin to post. Srry Tiru. :I
This game is going to have an infinite amount of ways forward. We NEED a Captain to chart our course-it'll be up to that persons personal IRL and OOC charisma, however, to ensure everyone is happy with these choices. Otherwise mutiny.
I'm not against OOC or IC discussion about strategy, either. But in the end we need to draft some unlucky person to actually make that final decision-to go ahead and move us forward, and allow Gig to advance the game.
What I think is that there are MANY ways the Captain can have vanished :3 Primarily, I bet this will be our prologue//intro INTO the game wherein we DO take off together, however our captain has vanished--not necessarily died. So cue freeform planning on what we can do--we may need a registration or valid license in order to escape from orbit, or anything in between.I actually agree that it would be more interesting to leave the Captain's disappearance as a mystery to solve. I went along with the "captain is dead" option mostly because it provides in-universe justification for setting out on our own instead of at least trying to rescue our well-liked skipper. Crucially, this only requires our characters to believe that the Captain is beyond help. What actually happened is up to the GM.
Like in one imagery that came to me: The Captain called us together to get acquainted while they took care of business. We wait for hours [in RP time being {hey we don't really know the time but I want to know you!}] until we get the note that he hasn't come back.
What I believe however is within none of those options in the straw poll (or maybe because I don't understand the specifics ._. [voted Enlightened Anarchy? 3/3/2]). Where I'm thinking about it, the person who gives options can be just anyone--just someone who we can all reasonably trust what to do. Illustrating this point by pointing at other games, notably the FEF Forum Game Series, people can make plans in the OOC that people generally, usually follow (of notable mention is one called SwordstarYeah, working things out OOC is an alternative to any sort of formal/semi-formal IC organization. It depends on whether or not you think that detracts from immersion. I'm not strongly against OOC tactics, but it does feel a little strange to have lengthy debates pro et contra on decisions that are supposed to be made in the heat of battle.
And given the diverse situations we may encounter--we may pretty much need just that. This person can be in any specific role--as long as it encompasses overview of the battle and knowledge of the best way out (and someone who isn't a KEEL EM ALL type, and values life and diplomacy in balance too :v)
Questions to answer:
- How we all met.
- Why we are going to fly a ship together.
- How we got the ship. (My Name is Immaterial had an idea about that.)
- Where we are starting out. (Most charsheets seem to assume that we're somewhere in Human territory.)
- Where we are going.
- What our (primary/initial) mission is.
- Whether we'll have a full chain of command, just a captain, or an enlightened anarchy. (I'm thinking of tactical situations here. Strategic decisions will be made more or less democratically, I presume.)
