While I find the advancements I'm seeing interesting, I feel I should note that unless I'm counting wrong, my last turn was the end of the fifth round of the second age.
Admittedly, any three players could decide that we're not moving on (until round ten ends), but I thought I'd point it out as nothing was mentioned about it.
I'm cool with the second age continuing.
Whatcha gonna do, little buckaroo? | i be pimpin' madoka ficsYou summoned a C'THULHU KNOCKOFF
MY MIND IS FULL OF FUCK
I mean, it's not bad, it's just...MIND-FUCKY...
edited 4th Feb '12 10:33:00 PM by Chubert
Whatcha gonna do, little buckaroo? | i be pimpin' madoka ficsAlso um tiny little detail—I think icesteel is just magical ice, from what Snowy's told me, which makes it...more(?) plausible to have an entire city-spanning wall built out of it than it does to have one built out of Godsteel. Fluff-wise, maybe it'd be better if the wall's made out of stone, and Avian engineering skill allows them to efficiently integrate limited amounts of Godsteel into the supports?
Whatcha gonna do, little buckaroo? | i be pimpin' madoka ficsPlants + Steampunk Zeppelins = ...plantpunk?
Whatcha gonna do, little buckaroo? | i be pimpin' madoka ficsI kind of want one more turn in age 2, after this one; this is for purely selfish reasons.
Whatcha gonna do, little buckaroo? | i be pimpin' madoka ficsAlso, I DID edit the previous turn so that rather being a solid godsteel wall, it's instead a wall that's reinforced with godsteel and has a godsteel plating on the outside. Should effectively have the same result against most attacks while still being more reasonable in how much metal would be required to obtain it.
Uh, confirmation: the military academy means that the Helms Deep army is better than anybody who doesn't have another military academy (everybody) AND doesn't have advancements—namely, the Handalen, Halfra, Halflians, and Zombies.
Also, we need to clean up the index again. The Halfians and Halfra aren't cityless; they've got Calicfex, and there's a six floating around on the map.
Whatcha gonna do, little buckaroo? | i be pimpin' madoka ficsShit, reading comp. But, um, anyways, you can plop down a race anywhere you like, so they don't have to be cityless if you don't want them to be cityless.
Whatcha gonna do, little buckaroo? | i be pimpin' madoka ficsI'm updating the map before I do my turn. Should I give the half-breeds a 6 and throw it down next to Verloren and Prowessia?
You must agree, my plan is sheer elegance in its simplicity! My TumblrQuestion: would 2 points be an acceptable price to modify the Wrwym to being Handalen/Ent half breeds? Or would it require the full 4?
You must agree, my plan is sheer elegance in its simplicity! My TumblrUm, I don't understand the question. They're...not Ent/Handalen hybrids, so I'm not sure how you modify them, save some cosmic causal retcon...
Also, if anybody wants to start Age 3 at any time, just bring it up in here; if there's a majority, then we switch next round, unless it's brought up before my post, in which case I'll wait to see if there is not a majority.
edited 9th Feb '12 10:10:12 PM by Chubert
Whatcha gonna do, little buckaroo? | i be pimpin' madoka ficsI know... it just seems that if Cwper was to make a Handalen/Ent cross what she'd get is a Wrwym. Doesn't matter, making cross-breeds for everything shouldn't be a goal in-and-of-itself anyway. So Ent crosses are unlikely.
That said, now I can't help imagining a Dragon/Ent cross.
Edit: I'm up for moving forward, but I'm also happy to stay in Age 2.
edited 9th Feb '12 10:13:04 PM by Luthen
You must agree, my plan is sheer elegance in its simplicity! My TumblrNote dragons mate with anything and everything.
Somewhere out there there is a half-dragon Gelatinous Cube.
I don't know if it makes a difference, but I don't see why races couldn't share a city. I mean, just about everything has a seperate entry for modifying a race or modifying a city. My thinking is that the city's alignment would be an average of the races present (with ties going in the direction the person creating the city or moving the race in decides) plus the number of Purify/Corrupt City actions taken on that city.
It could result in a +5 city with a -3 race present, but then it's possible to do that (if we really wanted to) with a single race being present - and if there are a group of +4, +2 and -3 races it makes sense that it could be adjusted easier (needing only +4 to reach a +5 city rather than +8).
I, um, do not see why it matters. The system you propose seems fairly convoluted and unnecessary. So far, we haven't even used purify city, I don't think...
Anyways, I'm pretty sure this is how it works: if you want the specific people in the city to be nice, you purify it. If there's a -1 race in a +1 city, deal with it fluff-wise however you like. Maybe they hide in the shadows. Maybe they're affected by the city and grow to a +1 alignment. Maybe they largely flee from the city, but a few remain behind. Guys, alignment is in here to enrich the fluff; there is no need to delve into it really far mechanics-wise. The only seriously important mechanics issue is conflict.
Whatcha gonna do, little buckaroo? | i be pimpin' madoka ficsI realize I probably just misread, but I was thinking that Taco was thinking that the Zombies and the half-breeds couldn't share a city because of the Zombies being evil (a second read made me think that maybe it was just that he wanted them not to).
So I was just using the alignment mechanic differences as an example of a mechanic supporting them being able to. I suppose a simpler version is for the city's alignment to be the same as the race in charge, having thought about it. Increases opportunity for conflict too.
(and I have rolled - a 9, and should have a post up within 4 hours of this post if nothing major comes up. If I don't, go ahead and continue - I'll just say that I'll take my points and take no action)
edited 10th Feb '12 11:52:44 AM by Passer

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edited 3rd Feb '12 1:07:13 PM by Taco