Just pointing out information, not attacking:
The problem with creating numerous new threads is that it clogs up the forum making it difficult to find other stories threads; and too many threads for this one would make it a nightmare to find information
Sytarenne:
You will have to be creative, and you have to go change characters in each year. Like in the middle ages, you would be realistically a racist, religious, king that ruled over everything and only had to care about the barons.
1] New characters each
year or each
era/segment?
2] There were governments other than kingdoms through history and the middle ages (republics, democracies, etc), monarchies/aristocracies were just the most prevalent.
3] Kings had to worry about the population if they wanted to not get killed by mobs. (Middle ages had peasant uprisings due to this.)
4] Realistically a racist? I'm not so sure that would be the case in all or most cases.
Reading direct sources and historic sources not tainted by eugenicists; it appears people were mostly divided along sectarian, ethnic, and ideological NOT racial lines. Though attributing characteristics to physical attributes at times, they still operated within their 'group' or those groups they were close with ethnically or ideologically. That's generally the western perspective and even some eastern perspective.
Some middle eastern perspectives tend to class everyone not of race or ethnicity, but somewhat more in ideology including division by religion.
Psychologically people generate 'groups' which unless they're particularly racially charged also tends to include other races. These groups form mostly from ethnicity / ideology / etc similarities and may work with other similar groups to achieve goals against a common problem/threat or other sectarian/ethnic group(s.)
Syrixia:
3. You do not get to say how this RP goes AT ALL. It is a collaboration.
Sytarenne:
[3] This RP is not really public were anyone can jump in and come. I'm only doing it to make the RP more interesting
If this is not open to the TNP RP community than there would be little point to the exercise. People having time for an RP restricts the number, The timeline restricts the number, the exclusivity restricts the number, and if the RP is highly moderated and not collaborative then this might have almost no one participating. The entire situation could almost be conducted in PM or depending on how 'moderated,' be written by the moderator then published on the factbook(s).
Collaboration allows for good stories, moderation leads to good stories; No collaboration = one person's story, over moderation = one person's story. Consider restricting entry to require new participants accept rules / etc through the OOC thread before posting.
Sytarenne:
[4] For a grand total of 10 minutes basically full of war. Gg.
Syrixia:
4. There is more to RP than war. This isn't the Past War RP, it's the Past RP. There is also politics, resource gathering, colonization and building to think about.
I think you're both standing on the same side here yelling at the wind. Sytarenne is saying there is more to RP than things like the war that was recently RP'd (meaning politics, colonization, etc.) He's also complaining that the RP started in a flash and ended in a flash; and its contents were basically RP war for 10 whole minutes. (He used hyperbole.) Syrixia is saying the same thing it seems; there is more to RP than war.
So let's make something that isn't war and doesn't devolve instantly into war. War can come later on, but should not be immediate, repetitive, or equal most of the content. It's also possible to have minor 'war' that is between you and a NPC to further a storyline and is more of a skirmish. Like Rome's multiple border skirmishes that were technically war but were not war as most would see them (involving drama and allies, etc.)
We should have collaboration on guidelines and general storyline / events, but allow unplanned sub events, etc. Also, there needs to be some sensitivity on timelines for nations such as Kannex.
