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| Colonization; Now what... | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 29 2010, 04:20 PM (202 Views) | |
| Telosan | Jan 29 2010, 04:20 PM Post #1 |
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Though we're still some time off from colonization from starting, we might as well nip this in the bud. How do we want to go about this? Who's the first? Who gets what? Do we want to do the same method as the NS1 maps are using? I have an idea. With the IC system, there's a max amount. Venice has about 2,000. There's also a replenishment rate, though it isn't very much. Here's the idea: What if I start with 2,000 IC on Sunday. A war starts on Monday, so I commit 200 IC to it. I now have 1,800. I decide to expand into America at the same time. I spend 500 IC (or whatever we decide) to send an explorer over there. He will discover a 50 mile radius depending on where he lands (varying upon how much you paid). I now have 1,300 IC. Skip ahead to Sunday again, the replenishment rate refills some of the total. Because the war is still going on, I can't have more than 1,800 since I put in 200. Say I want to expand again, this time by land. It goes the same as I said before. There would also be a 'cooldown' of maybe 2-3 weeks before you can explore again. You also have to RP the expansions as conquests. A mod plays the NPC natives and responds accordingly to whether you land and give them gold or land and start shooting. Does anyone follow that? EDIT: When making a colony, you must devote a certain amount of IC to that region that can only be used there and not in your home region. Depending on the percentage of IC you specify, it will also receive an equal percent of the replenishment rate. Edited by Telosan, Jan 29 2010, 06:30 PM.
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| Rhadamanthus | Jan 29 2010, 04:28 PM Post #2 |
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I think that if you found an overseas colony, you should have to invest/assign a portion of your IC specifically to that colony. While allowing a certain flexibility with IC has made sense so far, allowing nations to deploy all their IC in a colony in the future, for example wouldn't make sense. So I think that if say, for example, France has a new colony in Quebec, they should have to assign a portion of their IC to the colony. |
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| Telosan | Jan 29 2010, 04:52 PM Post #3 |
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That sounds like a good idea. I'll add it to the above proposal later. |
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| Telosan | Jan 31 2010, 02:04 PM Post #4 |
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NH posted this in the other thread, so I copied it over here to keep the discussion in one place. I don't think we should follow history so closely. Some nations exist that didn't really exist and some nations will colonize that never even made it to America. The honor of discovering the New World should be left to history, lest there be a huge argument over it. So, the Spanish equivalent will "discover" America via Christopher Columbus. There can then be an IC argument over who owns it. Chris was Italian, so do the Italians get it? He was working for Spain, so do they get it? E can even come in an say something about the Vikings finding it. Hell, even Atticus could get in on it with the Irish monk that was there even earlier! If we end up using the real map, my expansion would probably be centered on the Bahamas, Cuba, and Florida/Georgia or Florida/Alabama. Since that's prime real estate, I'll not go farther than that since its unlikely I'd get that much anyway. Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas would be a good tactical thing for Venice. "We'll let you through between Florida and Cuba if you let us through Gibraltar." I, of course, have no historical background for any expansion out of the Mediterranean, but I've been IC preparing Venice to avoid the events that kept her from joining the colonization age. Success in Constantinople will keep the Turks off my back, trading with the northern countries will provide experience with ocean-going ships, making the Italian city states friends rather than enemies will free up resources and let me keep my attention farther from home, and allying with Aragon/Spain will prevent the major issues that eventually came up and subdued the Venetians due to the potential threat of a blockade of the Adriatic, ending Venice's trade. :D We'll have to see the map first, but it should be easy to transfer claims to equivalents on a new map. |
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| Telosan | Feb 2 2010, 09:28 PM Post #5 |
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No one wants to discuss this? Or are we waiting for the map? |
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| Telosan | Mar 8 2010, 10:45 PM Post #6 |
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