History of the Multiverse, Part 1

[silhouette]

johan osterman said:
Fanfiction is just what dominions need. Finally we can learn of Sporsnjalls unrequited passion for Angerboda and Tjatses lusty escapades amongst his furred friends in the Pangaean woods.

Hmmm, someone should tell JO to change his password more often

But seriously, if you want to go down this path, it seems like a good first step would be to write up the real timeline of the existing 'fixed' history events we know of. What year did the falling star spell undersea doom; when was the last Neifel giant seen; when did Ermor's desperation lead to their studies with C'tis's dark arts; when did the first human forces penetrate the caverns of the one-eyed; how many years are there between the start of Early, Middle, and Late eras, etc...

Sill

[HoneyBadger]

No reason it should, Sombre, since the two are completely unrelated topics. Are you sure you're actually reading the post before replying to it? And if you read that one, then why aren't you reading all the ones that actually were related? I've made several posts on this topic that were a lot more relevant to the subject.

Or maybe you mean that both ideas would actually help increase a sense of knowing what's actually going on, before throwing 50 or so nations into a bloody world war? In which case, thanks for the validation.

Johan's lustrous hair fetishes aside... this is potentially a valuable tool. I'm not talking Sombre's dreamy-eyed bisexual goth poetry, or even stories as such. I'm saying that objectively, relationships can and should be established between the various nations, based on some kind of consistent chain of events.

Not in order to hamstring or harm the multiplayer experience, or to force anyone to act in a way contrary to how they want to play their nation, but in order to give touchstones and reference-points, so that their's reasons why a player/nation's actions matter.

"Nation" is a powerful word, and it means something more than just an army.

[Sombre]

HoneyBadger said:
No reason it should, Sombre, since the two are completely unrelated topics. Are you sure you're actually reading the post before replying to it? And if you read that one, then why aren't you reading all the ones that actually were related? I've made several posts on this topic that were a lot more relevant to the subject.

I'm supposed to find and read all the posts you've made related to any given topic before I'm allowed to reply? That seems pretty unreasonable.

[HoneyBadger]

You're allowed to do whatever you want, including posting to a thread without having read or understanding what you're posting to. I'm a big fan of freedom of speech.

But, you're telling me you read the "accepted community mod" thread and are making judgements based on that.

Is it my fault that that thread doesn't have anything to do with this one? It's just as unreasonable to expect everything I've ever written to somehow be related-I'm not Michael Moorcock.

I think it's reasonable to expect, when you're trying to make a point, in the process of attacking something, that there's actually a point to be made.

[Sombre]

Interesting that you interpret my post as an attack.

Does this paranoia manifest itself in any other ways? Excessive PD building perhaps?