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Alternate Universes Forum
Topic Started: Aug 23 2006, 04:44 PM (1,018 Views)
Noriega
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Quaon
Aug 28 2006, 06:58 PM
Norightsia
Aug 28 2006, 06:55 PM
Quaon
Aug 28 2006, 06:54 PM
Paradise...us bickering....admin...

SPAM IS EVIL! I HATE SPAM! MAKE ME AN ADMIN PARADISE!  :D

It's OK Quaon. Don't deny who you are. You have to be proud of your people, your heritage! We are the Great SPAM Empire! Bow down before the might of our needless posts and our ridiculously high post counts! :lol:

You should see the proboards UD forum if you want to see real spam. It's the best spam in the world.

Maybe I will. How do I join lol? :wub:
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Quaon
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http://www.urbandead.proboards52.com/
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Noriega
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Quaon
Aug 28 2006, 07:05 PM

So, I make a character on UD and then can go on these boards?
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Quaon
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Norightsia
Aug 28 2006, 07:22 PM
Quaon
Aug 28 2006, 07:05 PM

So, I make a character on UD and then can go on these boards?

Yeah...but they're screwed. Ask Anti-Citizen.
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Noriega
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Quaon
Aug 28 2006, 07:27 PM
Norightsia
Aug 28 2006, 07:22 PM
Quaon
Aug 28 2006, 07:05 PM

So, I make a character on UD and then can go on these boards?

Yeah...but they're screwed. Ask Anti-Citizen.

He isn't on lol. Can I ask you?
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Quaon
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Well, I think Paradise is online, so can you please make the forum?
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Nag Ehgoeg
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Paradise was online when I posted.

And as he hasn't said no while I've been away, you have your forum.

It'll be modded by general mods until we can appoint someone.
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Quaon
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Nag Ehgoeg
Aug 31 2006, 07:59 AM
Paradise was online when I posted.

And as he hasn't said no while I've been away, you have your forum.

It'll be modded by general mods until we can appoint someone.

Can I be a mod, as it was my idea?
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Tristan da Cunha
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Could we have separate forums for historical RP and alternate universe RP? That way it is completely clear as to which threads are compatible and which are incompatible with the rest of the forum universe.
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Quaon
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Aug 31 2006, 08:08 AM
Could we have separate forums for historical RP and alternate universe RP? That way it is completely clear as to which threads are compatible and which are incompatible with the rest of the forum universe.

Let's have it as a sub forum, then. Though, I'd assume alternate universe historical RP would go in the main forum.
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Nag Ehgoeg
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But, what I intended for the AU forum was that past stories could be considered official if they don't contradict anything. For example, if I RPed the founding of Quaon, that's official.

I should have been more clear there.

Dependind on interest, I'll create sub boards for Historical Past, Possible Futures (because we all want lazers) and Alternative Universe (teh ZOMBIES!)

In all boards, posting there will not raise your post count for about half a dozen reasons that I'm willinging to share (but I'm very busy ATM and about to log off.)

All information, I consider to be non-cannon.

The history of your nation is something to be written up in your Nation Description thread then added to as you play the game.

I don't want people making threads saying "thirty years ago" and giving themselves nukes using the Past board to time travel to when they where a military superpower instead of the pascifist nation we've known on the forums.

Now people will want to play out their histories - and now they can. If you want to show the real history of your nation - you can link to a thread on that board. But anything you do "in the past" does not effect your nation in the present.

This is NOT the time travel board.

Please do use it to tell the story of your past, but realise that many nations (particularly Nag Ehgoeg) have really unrealistic pasts and the opertunity to "change" your nation using a past thread is something that I think is best avoided.

That said, I think the Past board will be used the most, and that it will be the "most offical" of the "unoffical" boards.
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Quaon
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Nag Ehgoeg
Aug 31 2006, 08:15 AM
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But, what I intended for the AU forum was that past stories could be considered official if they don't contradict anything. For example, if I RPed the founding of Quaon, that's official.

I should have been more clear there.

Dependind on interest, I'll create sub boards for Historical Past, Possible Futures (because we all want lazers) and Alternative Universe (teh ZOMBIES!).

In all boards, posting there will not raise your post count for about half a dozen reasons that I'm willinging to share (but I'm very busy ATM and about to log off.)

All information, I consider to be non-cannon.

The history of your nation is something to be written up in your Nation Description thread then added to as you play the game.

I don't want people making threads saying "thirty years ago" and giving themselves nukes using the Past board to time travel to when they where a military superpower instead of the pascifist nation we've known on the forums.

Now people will want to play out their histories - and now they can. If you want to show the real history of your nation - you can link to a thread on that board. But anything you do "in the past" does not effect your nation in the present.

This is NOT the time travel board.

Please do use it to tell the story of your past, but realise that many nations (particularly Nag Ehgoeg) have really unrealistic pasts and the opertunity to "change" your nation using a past thread is something that I think is best avoided.

That said, I think the Past board will be used the most, and that it will be the "most offical" of the "unoffical" boards.

Well, I think if the nation considers it cannon, and that this does not benefit the nation in any way, it should be considered cannon. Sure, you can post your history in the forums, but you can actually play your history here. If it benefits the nation too much or contradicts a later event, it becomes non-cannon.
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Nag Ehgoeg
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Does it matter?

Your history has already happened. It has already effected your cannon nation, and thus the results of your history are cannon.

My concern here is the way time actually works on the forums - what's present today is pretty distant past next month.

It's your past - it can't effect the present. Any effect from using the Past board has already happened, so it can't have any new effects, because it's already happened. (Understand?)

Because it can't effect the present, events happening in the past aren't cannon.

They can be offical to you by all means, but my point is that events that have already happened shouldn't have any knock on effect to the rest of the board.

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If it's your history, and doesn't change anything in the main NS world, then it's offical.

If it does change anything in the main NS world, then it's unoffical.

Unoffical things can't change things in the main NS world.

Therefore, everything is unoffical. Even the offical stuff.
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Quaon
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Nag Ehgoeg
Aug 31 2006, 08:24 AM
Does it matter?

Your history has already happened. It has already effected your cannon nations, and thus the results of your history are cannon.

My concern here is the way time actually works on the forums - what's present today is pretty distant past next month.

It's your past it can't effect the present.

Because it can't effect the present, events happening in the past aren't cannon.

They can be offical to you by all means, but my point is that events that have already happened shouldn't have any knock on effect to the rest of the board.

That's what I mean. They happened, but they have no effects on your nation, because they occured in the past.
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Nag Ehgoeg
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If it's your history, and doesn't change anything in the main NS world, then it's offical.

If it does change anything in the main NS world, then it's unoffical.

Unoffical things can't change things in the main NS world.

Therefore, everything is unoffical. Even the offical stuff.

:rolleyes:
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Quaon
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Nag Ehgoeg
Aug 31 2006, 08:27 AM
If it's your history, and doesn't change anything in the main NS world, then it's offical.

If it does change anything in the main NS world, then it's unoffical.

Unoffical things can't change things in the main NS world.

Therefore, everything is unoffical. Even the offical stuff.

:rolleyes:

Um, ok.
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New Harumf
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Nag Ehgoeg
Aug 31 2006, 08:27 AM
If it's your history, and doesn't change anything in the main NS world, then it's offical.

If it does change anything in the main NS world, then it's unoffical.

Unoffical things can't change things in the main NS world.

Therefore, everything is unoffical. Even the offical stuff.

:rolleyes:

I have missed your backwater british jibberish! Uh, thank you for clearing that up, Yogi (US baseball fans will know that reference).
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Noriega
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Aug 31 2006, 09:08 AM
Nag Ehgoeg
Aug 31 2006, 08:27 AM
If it's your history, and doesn't change anything in the main NS world, then it's offical.

If it does change anything in the main NS world, then it's unoffical.

Unoffical things can't change things in the main NS world.

Therefore, everything is unoffical. Even the offical stuff.

:rolleyes:

I have missed your backwater british jibberish! Uh, thank you for clearing that up, Yogi (US baseball fans will know that reference).

:wacko: What about backwater British jibberish? It's you Americans as can't talk correctly.
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Wadj
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New Harumf
Aug 31 2006, 09:08 AM
Nag Ehgoeg
Aug 31 2006, 08:27 AM
If it's your history, and doesn't change anything in the main NS world, then it's offical.

If it does change anything in the main NS world, then it's unoffical.

Unoffical things can't change things in the main NS world.

Therefore, everything is unoffical. Even the offical stuff.

:rolleyes:

I have missed your backwater british jibberish! Uh, thank you for clearing that up, Yogi (US baseball fans will know that reference).

Its like deja vu all over again.
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Quaon
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Norightsia
Aug 31 2006, 09:10 AM
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Aug 31 2006, 09:08 AM
Nag Ehgoeg
Aug 31 2006, 08:27 AM
If it's your history, and doesn't change anything in the main NS world, then it's offical.

If it does change anything in the main NS world, then it's unoffical.

Unoffical things can't change things in the main NS world.

Therefore, everything is unoffical. Even the offical stuff.

:rolleyes:

I have missed your backwater british jibberish! Uh, thank you for clearing that up, Yogi (US baseball fans will know that reference).

:wacko: What about backwater British jibberish? It's you Americans as can't talk correctly.

Y'all just jealous o' our soperiah talk!
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Kasnyia
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Nothing beats Indo-english jibberish though.

Will you be a needing transport madam?

She is knowing the answer

etc., etc.....
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Noriega
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Quaon
Aug 31 2006, 10:41 AM
Norightsia
Aug 31 2006, 09:10 AM
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Aug 31 2006, 09:08 AM
Nag Ehgoeg
Aug 31 2006, 08:27 AM
If it's your history, and doesn't change anything in the main NS world, then it's offical.

If it does change anything in the main NS world, then it's unoffical.

Unoffical things can't change things in the main NS world.

Therefore, everything is unoffical. Even the offical stuff.

:rolleyes:

I have missed your backwater british jibberish! Uh, thank you for clearing that up, Yogi (US baseball fans will know that reference).

:wacko: What about backwater British jibberish? It's you Americans as can't talk correctly.

Y'all just jealous o' our soperiah talk!

Come again lol? :lol: :rolleyes:
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Nag Ehgoeg
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Umm... ok time to unjibber the ish.

What I mean is: CE will want to ignore this forum. I say let him.

I will use this forum to tell the prehistory of Nag Ehgoeg... then I might have the Regent eat some tastey harmanz... then I intend to ignore this forum.

And I'm willing to bet Paradise won't be thrilled with having ANOTHER forum.

So I'm viewing this as a kick ass optional extra - much like the NS wiki.

Using this forum will kick ass... it just won't be required reading.

As for sub boards I'm thinking:

Historical Past

Tell the story of your nations past. Story arcs on this board are considered cannon history, and thus in no way effect current storylines.

Fictional Possibilities

What if something was different about the world? What if Catholic Europe had been destroyed by The First War of Succession? What if Nag Ehgoeg ever perfected that Solanum virus? What if America was a world Hyper Power (yeah, like that one's realistic)? Tell your "what if"s here.
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Quaon
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Nag Ehgoeg
Sep 1 2006, 04:41 AM
Umm... ok time to unjibber the ish.

What I mean is: CE will want to ignore this forum. I say let him.

I will use this forum to tell the prehistory of Nag Ehgoeg... then I might have the Regent eat some tastey harmanz... then I intend to ignore this forum.

And I'm willing to bet Paradise won't be thrilled with having ANOTHER forum.

So I'm viewing this as a kick ass optional extra - much like the NS wiki.

Using this forum will kick ass... it just won't be required reading.

As for sub boards I'm thinking:

Historical Past

Tell the story of your nations past. Story arcs on this board are considered cannon history, and thus in no way effect current storylines.

Fictional Possibilities

What if something was different about the world? What if Catholic Europe had been destroyed by The First War of Succession? What if Nag Ehgoeg ever perfected that Solanum virus? What if America was a world Hyper Power (yeah, like that one's realistic)? Tell your "what if"s here.

Well, it seems it was moved to a subforum of General. Let's have two different sub-forums: Historical Past and the one we already have. We can move the North America to HP.
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Nag Ehgoeg
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Do we need HP though?
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