SDNWorld Redux - Casting Call & Planning MK II

Create, read, or participate in text-based RPGs

Moderators: Thanas, Steve

Locked
User avatar
PeZook
Emperor's Hand
Posts: 13237
Joined: 2002-07-18 06:08pm
Location: Poland

Post by PeZook »

A little experiment for you guys who want RAR realism :D

This is how the world would look like if we kept the land areas, but made the total world size earth-like. White stuff are the polar caps, and yeah, they're probably too big.

So...do you want the HEUGE world (I can throw in an Untamed Continent if you like) or the small (roughly 1/4 of Earth) unrealistic world?
Image
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
- NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11

Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.

MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
User avatar
Shroom Man 777
FUCKING DICK-STABBER!
Posts: 21222
Joined: 2003-05-11 08:39am
Location: Bleeding breasts and stabbing dicks since 2003
Contact:

Post by Shroom Man 777 »

Can we make our countries and continents also HUEG?
Image "DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source)
shroom is a lovely boy and i wont hear a bad word against him - LUSY-CHAN!
Shit! Man, I didn't think of that! It took Shroom to properly interpret the screams of dying people :D - PeZook
Shroom, I read out the stuff you write about us. You are an endless supply of morale down here. :p - an OWS street medic
Pink Sugar Heart Attack!
User avatar
Karmic Knight
Jedi Master
Posts: 1005
Joined: 2007-04-03 05:42pm

Post by Karmic Knight »

I vote Realistic With another Continent.

Pseudo-Earth For The Win.
This is an empty country and I am it's king, and I should not be allowed to touch anything.
User avatar
PeZook
Emperor's Hand
Posts: 13237
Joined: 2002-07-18 06:08pm
Location: Poland

Post by PeZook »

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Can we make our countries and continents also HUEG?
I could re-arrange them, but that means we get 4x as much land area. Every single one of us.

That in turn means a population density of Sweden everywhere :P

EDIT: For the record, the ocean between the OC and MESSamerica is how wide the real atlantic ocean is. Yes, the Earth is that huge.
Image
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
- NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11

Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.

MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
User avatar
DarthShady
Jedi Council Member
Posts: 1872
Joined: 2007-09-15 10:46am
Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Contact:

Post by DarthShady »

PeZook wrote:
Shroom Man 777 wrote:Can we make our countries and continents also HUEG?
I could re-arrange them, but that means we get 4x as much land area. Every single one of us.

That in turn means a population density of Sweden everywhere :P
You know, there is such a thing as being too big. :D

I vote we keep it small.
User avatar
Shroom Man 777
FUCKING DICK-STABBER!
Posts: 21222
Joined: 2003-05-11 08:39am
Location: Bleeding breasts and stabbing dicks since 2003
Contact:

Post by Shroom Man 777 »

Hrm.... fuck it. Let's stick with what we've got. Screw details, chalk it up to gameplay mechanics or some shit.
Image "DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source)
shroom is a lovely boy and i wont hear a bad word against him - LUSY-CHAN!
Shit! Man, I didn't think of that! It took Shroom to properly interpret the screams of dying people :D - PeZook
Shroom, I read out the stuff you write about us. You are an endless supply of morale down here. :p - an OWS street medic
Pink Sugar Heart Attack!
User avatar
Ice
Padawan Learner
Posts: 151
Joined: 2002-07-06 11:27pm

Post by Ice »

PeZook wrote:A little experiment for you guys who want RAR realism :D

This is how the world would look like if we kept the land areas, but made the total world size earth-like. White stuff are the polar caps, and yeah, they're probably too big.

So...do you want the HEUGE world (I can throw in an Untamed Continent if you like) or the small (roughly 1/4 of Earth) unrealistic world?
I actually like this.

I mean, we have stuff like B-1s, B-52s, and big-deck nuclear supercarriers. Might as well have a world where they're useful.

Plus the travel time and such means that things can't get too global too quickly, which provides a buffer for those not religiously following this thing every day.
Image
"Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences." - Midori Koto
KlavoHunter
Jedi Master
Posts: 1401
Joined: 2007-08-26 10:53pm

Post by KlavoHunter »

Raj Ahten, Czechmate and I are trying to hash out some mutual history for Southeastern Frequesue. Everyone badger Raj into getting and using AIM! :P
"The 4th Earl of Hereford led the fight on the bridge, but he and his men were caught in the arrow fire. Then one of de Harclay's pikemen, concealed beneath the bridge, thrust upwards between the planks and skewered the Earl of Hereford through the anus, twisting the head of the iron pike into his intestines. His dying screams turned the advance into a panic."'

SDNW4: The Sultanate of Klavostan
User avatar
Coyote
Rabid Monkey
Posts: 12464
Joined: 2002-08-23 01:20am
Location: The glorious Sun-Barge! Isis, Isis, Ra,Ra,Ra!
Contact:

Post by Coyote »

I like the HUEG EARTH idea, because now just building a squadron of strategic bombers doesn't give anyone all-global reach. There's limits to unrefueled range; a place where one can conceivably park that's out of reach of anyone else. With a small word, even a modest strategic bomber force can be a trump card.

I say... another continent, maybe with some vague NPCs that can be handed over should more folks decide to join. Or even an archipelago, a sunken continent with the mountaintops poking out, the rest of it anywhere from several to a hundred feet below.
Something about Libertarianism always bothered me. Then one day, I realized what it was:
Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to the phrase, "Work Will Make You Free."


In Libertarianism, there is no Government, so the Bosses are free to exploit the Workers.
In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
So in Libertarianism, man exploits man, but in Communism, its the other way around!

If all you want to do is have some harmless, mindless fun, go H3RE INST3ADZ0RZ!!
Grrr! Fight my Brute, you pansy!
User avatar
Steve
Emperor's Hand
Posts: 9774
Joined: 2002-07-03 01:09pm
Location: Florida USA
Contact:

Post by Steve »

I agree, keep huge world, put Frequesue east of Old Continent, maybe another continent west of Shep/OD Continent, and some large archipelagos with Third World Nation NPCs and such.
”A Radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia

American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.

DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
User avatar
Siege
Sith Marauder
Posts: 4108
Joined: 2004-12-11 12:35pm

Post by Siege »

KlavoHunter wrote:Raj Ahten, Czechmate and I are trying to hash out some mutual history for Southeastern Frequesue. Everyone badger Raj into getting and using AIM! :P
Sweet. I'm looking forward to reading it. PS: Klavo, consider yourself cordially invited to the FTO conference... No need to hurry though, since I won't be around for a week...
Coyote wrote:I like the HUEG EARTH idea, because now just building a squadron of strategic bombers doesn't give anyone all-global reach. There's limits to unrefueled range; a place where one can conceivably park that's out of reach of anyone else. With a small word, even a modest strategic bomber force can be a trump card.
I am with Coyote on this one, although if we're going with 'big earth' I'd say we might want to dump a few wilderness continents in there. Still, I rather like the world as a big place -- not in the least place because it means there's a fair distance between me and all you crazy people :P.

EDIT:
Steve wrote:I agree, keep huge world, put Frequesue east of Old Continent, maybe another continent west of Shep/OD Continent, and some large archipelagos with Third World Nation NPCs and such.
Frequesue was intended to be west of the Old Continent, and a fair bit down (Northern Frequesue is tropical or subtropical, with the south being temperate). There's plenty of sea west of the OC for it to fit, too.
Image
SDN World 2: The North Frequesuan Trust
SDN World 3: The Sultanate of Egypt
SDN World 4: The United Solarian Sovereignty
SDN World 5: San Dorado
There'll be a bodycount, we're gonna watch it rise
The folks at CNN, they won't believe their eyes
User avatar
PeZook
Emperor's Hand
Posts: 13237
Joined: 2002-07-18 06:08pm
Location: Poland

Post by PeZook »

Well, I can arrange all the island nations who want to be away from Shep and Skimmer in an archipelago, in a way that would suggest a gigantic sunken continent, maybe taken out by an asteroid strike in the distant past.

I will spam little islands around it, and thus we'll have a lot of Indiana Jones style story potential amongst them :D

Plus, I'll place a huge Untamed Continent full of savage native tribes who had very limited contact with civilized men.

Shep can then bomb them or something.
Image
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
- NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11

Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.

MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
User avatar
Karmic Knight
Jedi Master
Posts: 1005
Joined: 2007-04-03 05:42pm

Post by Karmic Knight »

PeZook wrote:Shep can then bomb them or something.

Can someone release killbots on that continent?
This is an empty country and I am it's king, and I should not be allowed to touch anything.
User avatar
PeZook
Emperor's Hand
Posts: 13237
Joined: 2002-07-18 06:08pm
Location: Poland

Post by PeZook »

Karmic Knight wrote:
PeZook wrote:Shep can then bomb them or something.

Can someone release killbots on that continent?
Marina...wet cod, please? :P
Image
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
- NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11

Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.

MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
User avatar
DarthShady
Jedi Council Member
Posts: 1872
Joined: 2007-09-15 10:46am
Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Contact:

Post by DarthShady »

PeZook wrote:
Karmic Knight wrote:
PeZook wrote:Shep can then bomb them or something.

Can someone release killbots on that continent?
Marina...wet cod, please? :P
How powerful is Marina going to be? Can she make random shit like killbots and dinos appear? Can she throw asteroids at Shep if he gets out of line?

Should we fear her? :D
User avatar
Coyote
Rabid Monkey
Posts: 12464
Joined: 2002-08-23 01:20am
Location: The glorious Sun-Barge! Isis, Isis, Ra,Ra,Ra!
Contact:

Post by Coyote »

I have found that when Marina is about, it is always best to keep a portion of your soul in a magic jar somewhere, just in case you need it to regenerate your life force at some point after an "object lesson" or two has been delivered. :wink:
Something about Libertarianism always bothered me. Then one day, I realized what it was:
Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to the phrase, "Work Will Make You Free."


In Libertarianism, there is no Government, so the Bosses are free to exploit the Workers.
In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
So in Libertarianism, man exploits man, but in Communism, its the other way around!

If all you want to do is have some harmless, mindless fun, go H3RE INST3ADZ0RZ!!
Grrr! Fight my Brute, you pansy!
User avatar
RogueIce
_______
Posts: 13387
Joined: 2003-01-05 01:36am
Location: Tampa Bay, Florida, USA
Contact:

Post by RogueIce »

Uh Shep, are you trying to get Q to drop an asteroid on your head? Beating up his Moderator is probably a Very Bad Idea.
Image
"How can I wait unknowing?
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)

"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
User avatar
PeZook
Emperor's Hand
Posts: 13237
Joined: 2002-07-18 06:08pm
Location: Poland

Post by PeZook »

Oh, Shep is so gonna get slapped around :P
Image
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
- NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11

Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.

MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
User avatar
Shroom Man 777
FUCKING DICK-STABBER!
Posts: 21222
Joined: 2003-05-11 08:39am
Location: Bleeding breasts and stabbing dicks since 2003
Contact:

Post by Shroom Man 777 »

@ Coyote:

Someone should tell Shep that... :lol: :lol: :lol:

Goddamn, Shep! Goddamn! :mrgreen:

Pure genius! Sublime!
Image "DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source)
shroom is a lovely boy and i wont hear a bad word against him - LUSY-CHAN!
Shit! Man, I didn't think of that! It took Shroom to properly interpret the screams of dying people :D - PeZook
Shroom, I read out the stuff you write about us. You are an endless supply of morale down here. :p - an OWS street medic
Pink Sugar Heart Attack!
User avatar
Siege
Sith Marauder
Posts: 4108
Joined: 2004-12-11 12:35pm

Post by Siege »

:lol: Only one person could come up with that...
Image
SDN World 2: The North Frequesuan Trust
SDN World 3: The Sultanate of Egypt
SDN World 4: The United Solarian Sovereignty
SDN World 5: San Dorado
There'll be a bodycount, we're gonna watch it rise
The folks at CNN, they won't believe their eyes
User avatar
Karmic Knight
Jedi Master
Posts: 1005
Joined: 2007-04-03 05:42pm

Post by Karmic Knight »

This is not going to be pretty.
This is an empty country and I am it's king, and I should not be allowed to touch anything.
User avatar
Steve
Emperor's Hand
Posts: 9774
Joined: 2002-07-03 01:09pm
Location: Florida USA
Contact:

Post by Steve »

SiegeTank wrote:
Steve wrote:I agree, keep huge world, put Frequesue east of Old Continent, maybe another continent west of Shep/OD Continent, and some large archipelagos with Third World Nation NPCs and such.
Frequesue was intended to be west of the Old Continent, and a fair bit down (Northern Frequesue is tropical or subtropical, with the south being temperate). There's plenty of sea west of the OC for it to fit, too.
Huh? The map of Frequesue has an arrow labeled "Old Continent" pointing west, not east.
”A Radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia

American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.

DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
User avatar
MKSheppard
Ruthless Genocidal Warmonger
Ruthless Genocidal Warmonger
Posts: 29842
Joined: 2002-07-06 06:34pm

Post by MKSheppard »

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Goddamn, Shep! Goddamn! :mrgreen:

Pure genius! Sublime!
"Your guns don't work" is like an invitation to find some other use for them -- world's most expensive and finely machined clubs. But if it was good enough for our cro-magnon anecestors; it's good enough for me.
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong

"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
User avatar
Siege
Sith Marauder
Posts: 4108
Joined: 2004-12-11 12:35pm

Post by Siege »

Steve wrote:Huh? The map of Frequesue has an arrow labeled "Old Continent" pointing west, not east.
That's 'cause I'm an idiot who keeps messing up his directions. Sorry, you're quite right; the Old Continent is west of Frequesue. :banghead:
Image
SDN World 2: The North Frequesuan Trust
SDN World 3: The Sultanate of Egypt
SDN World 4: The United Solarian Sovereignty
SDN World 5: San Dorado
There'll be a bodycount, we're gonna watch it rise
The folks at CNN, they won't believe their eyes
User avatar
Steve
Emperor's Hand
Posts: 9774
Joined: 2002-07-03 01:09pm
Location: Florida USA
Contact:

Post by Steve »

As funny as that was, Shep, you do know that Marina freezes time when talking to people, right?
”A Radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia

American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.

DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
Locked