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| OOC: Nitpicking International News Goes Here; Radio, Diesel, OOC - Oh my! | |
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| Topic Started: Dec 19 2008, 05:45 PM (615 Views) | |
| New Harumf | Dec 19 2008, 05:45 PM Post #1 |
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OOC: ** Clears throat ** 1900 - Radio address????? |
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| NRE | Dec 19 2008, 06:26 PM Post #2 |
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OOC: uh uh ....slip of the tongue? :whistling: :wasclose: fixed. Although while we're at it the "Diesel Engine Invented in Al Qalaa!" article.....why would they name it a "Diesel" engine if it wasn't invented by Rudolf Diesel ? Just curious Edited by NRE, Dec 19 2008, 06:26 PM.
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| A.Q. | Dec 19 2008, 06:31 PM Post #3 |
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OOC: Would you have us call it the Nikoforov Engine for the rest of time? |
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| NRE | Dec 19 2008, 06:45 PM Post #4 |
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Doesn't matter to me, just curious lol :P |
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| East Anarx | Dec 20 2008, 06:20 PM Post #5 |
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OOC: Yes. |
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| Rhadamanthus | Dec 20 2008, 06:31 PM Post #6 |
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OOC: Ditto. |
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| Nag Ehgoeg | Dec 20 2008, 06:47 PM Post #7 |
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The Devil's Advocate
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OOC: I'd rather Diesel invent it... |
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| A.Q. | Dec 20 2008, 06:53 PM Post #8 |
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OOC: Fixed then. Also, may I suggest a split, because you KNOW this won't be the last time an OOC debate will concern something in the news. |
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| A.Q. | Dec 22 2008, 05:10 PM Post #9 |
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arguing over calendars? really? ^^ |
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| NRE | Dec 22 2008, 05:13 PM Post #10 |
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Well ....why not say Diesel started the work but Nikoforov finished it, perhaps Diesel met an untimely and unhistorical early end to his life. Out of homage to the man who began to work, the engine is named after Diesel, to cut down on confusion ^^ just a suggestion.... :P |
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| Tristan da Cunha | Dec 22 2008, 05:17 PM Post #11 |
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Science and Industry
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OOC: If you insult calendar-related RPs , then you don't belong in this forum. GTFO :angry: :lol: |
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| A.Q. | Dec 22 2008, 05:23 PM Post #12 |
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Fixed again, then. ^^ |
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| Filo | Dec 22 2008, 05:26 PM Post #13 |
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Two questions: 1) May Persian gulf countryes develope a diesel based industry(instead that coal based?) 2) The time advance or is always XX° century? Thanks |
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| A.Q. | Dec 22 2008, 05:29 PM Post #14 |
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1) It's a long way away from practical use, Nikoforov's engine, I'd say ten years, so following the world timeline, and I'm RPing an industrializing country. 2) Time will advance, as the story develops. |
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| Filo | Dec 22 2008, 05:32 PM Post #15 |
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General
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I can play nearly two days in a week how much quick the time moved? Industrializzation is a point of actual sultan of Makuran. |
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| A.Q. | Dec 22 2008, 05:35 PM Post #16 |
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I reckon it's still about February, 1900, so time is moving pretty slowly. Other people might have different opinions on time. PM me if your interested in RPing some industrial cooperation. |
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| East Anarx | Dec 22 2008, 05:36 PM Post #17 |
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All of the above. Some businesses adopted the Gregorian Discordian Calendar to appeal to people who used that particular one, some the Julian Discordian Calendar to appeal to those who preferred it, and some just made up their own Calendars and called it Discordian to appeal to the many who like that kind of nonsense. Needless to say, it confuses the hell out of most visitors, (and even most residents,) but they go on doing it anyways. |
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| Tristan da Cunha | Dec 22 2008, 05:39 PM Post #18 |
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Science and Industry
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Excellent. |
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| Telosan | Dec 22 2008, 05:47 PM Post #19 |
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Speaking of the passage of time, how would we have it go? Can we twist dates? Make them happen earlier or later? I want to be the one to invent the plane, and IRL that didn't successfully happen till 1904. I don't want to wait 4 years to do that. Plus, we'd have to figure how long it'd take for these planes to become wide-spread. Other things I'd like to point out. Earlier in another post I had said there was no phones. Wrong, there were phones, but not as we think of them of course. Long thick wires connected them, and you had to shout to be heard. Also we need to consider traveling. Without planes, everything was by boats or horse-drawn wagons. For sailing, it could take weeks to traverse the oceans. Emperor Trekon is leaving the world conference, so he'd take...maybe 7-9 weeks to return to England. |
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| Union | Dec 22 2008, 06:15 PM Post #20 |
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I thought we had agreed that every year we would advance time by a decade. So, basically, it's 1900 until December 1st, and then it'll be 1910. |
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| East Anarx | Dec 22 2008, 06:16 PM Post #21 |
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Regarding the passage of time, I see nothing wrong with the way we've always done it. That is, if you want to RP something in the present, push everything back in time as necessary. |
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| Tristan da Cunha | Dec 22 2008, 06:19 PM Post #22 |
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Science and Industry
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Twisting dates is good. I think IC passage of time and dates should not be taken too seriously, to accommodate players' personal schedules. Btw, it takes less than a week for steam locomotive to travel from Spain to Korea. It should no more than 3 or 4 weeks for a coal fired ship similar the Titanic to travel from London to Tokyo. Horse drawn wagons are pretty much obsolete, except among the Amish Children. |
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| Filo | Dec 22 2008, 06:19 PM Post #23 |
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I belive that there is only a truble in what you suggest. In NS1 the era was the actual present and discoveries may be follow real one, but without time moving toward the present in NS2 how can i have tanks? However, for me, elastic time will be great. |
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| A.Q. | Dec 22 2008, 06:21 PM Post #24 |
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Horses will still exist as the common means of transportation for much of the world until even the 1940s, I think. Cars did not suddenly take over the world, only the rich could afford them, until Ford. |
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| Tristan da Cunha | Dec 22 2008, 06:26 PM Post #25 |
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Science and Industry
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In industrialized countries, trains would be the common means of transportation, not horses. By this time rails would have carried in total far more people per year than horses. In fact only the rich could afford to keep horses for personal transportation.
Edited by Tristan da Cunha, Dec 22 2008, 06:31 PM.
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