Rise and Fall of Civilizations (Earth|Humans and Ponies|Civilization Based|AU)

@Steve61594  
(Yep, back a page or two. Russian jungles.

@Steve61594  
(Actually she’s in the eastern part of Machuria(Like she said), west of where you changelings are.)

@The Mystory  
More like Batponies in Greece, Wolfponies (“dark” earth ponies) in Turkey, and Steel Ponies (“dark” unicorns, largely similar except for their eyes and their curved, edged horns) in Egypt. And various non-player races elsewhere. I mean…  
@Jinx  
…It’s not like the world is empty except for us. At least, I hope it isn’t.

@The Mystory  
(Ah. She’s far enough away then.)  
(I’m getting an interesting idea…will share after further development. Don’t worry, it’s not another color on the map.)
 
 
@Dusk Raven  
(In the way of sentient species…eh…kind of. GM will play 1-2 other species, I think. Other than that, it’s us and the animals.)

@Steve61594  
I just reasoned that way since a number of games in Civilization’s style have various independent peoples who aren’t controlled by a player - not to mention that in real-life Earth, the only places that weren’t inhabited by the start of civilization were the ones that simply hadn’t been discovered. Different cultures having uninhabited, open space between them simply wasn’t possible. If it’s possible to live there, someone sure as hell is going to try.

@Dusk Raven  
(Sense we’re playing culture groups we don’t have to Focus on just one Area, we can have multiple Cultures appear, like in history the 2 first Civilizations were Summeria and Egypt, then the indus valley and then the first Chinese Civilization, other Areas will be filled ether by colonizing culture groups(Like the ancient Greeks and their various city states across the Mediterranean sea), Local City states growing into more proper Civilizations(Like the city’s sphere of influence growing past just the city.)or Nomadic groups settling down. The world wasn’t filled to the brim with Civilizations at the start, more Civilizations will appear later on.)

@The Mystory  
No, I’m just saying it was filled with people, though.

Yeah, I Know. Sorry If I Was being Rude or anything. I was just saying sense this is a roleplay and not a video game that someone would have to be the “Non-player” Civs, if we do have something Like that then I would need to be them for them to be the closest the “Non-Player”, Unless you would have a idea of how that would work?

@The Mystory  
Well, no one really needs to play them. Most likely they just don’t do anything and simply react to the player’s actions on their turf (much like third parties in Civilization games), or players can decide minor actions an “NPC” culture takes towards them and them alone.

@Dusk Raven  
Bud, this will probably be mostly player-driven, with the GM playing just 1 or maybe 2 civilizations at first.

@Steve61594  
…I’m not sure how that affects anything I just posted, as I presented those possibilities with that player-driven premise in mind.

@Dusk Raven
 
@Steve61594
 
@Dusk Raven
 
(I rather jus have all Civilizations be played by a player like normal, it’s too unrealistic for me for a group of Civilizations to just do nothing/barely anything. Sorry if I’m being rude and if I don’t quite understand what you mean or anything.)

@The Mystory
 
@Dusk Raven  
Dusk you are overthinking it. This isnt some kind of game program where we can put in a bunch of NPC’s. Its all player controlled

@The Mystory  
Not civilizations.
 
@Jinx  

 
You’re telling me things I already know. I don’t think I’m the one overthinking it. Besides, it was just a suggestion, I’m not going to press it if it’s not what you want.

@Dusk Raven  
(Sorry if I was being rude, I Just don’t understand how you want it to work exactly, I’m ether seeing it as the same thing as player controlled or not realistic eough)

@The Mystory  
Definitely the former, and I wasn’t particularly concerned with realism, given that the Civilization games themselves aren’t particularly realistic. It’s basically just letting the players do what they want with unaligned peoples inhabiting lands not controlled by a player.
 
Honestly, I can’t think of a way to explain it better than I already have, and it sounds like it’d be a hassle anyway…

@Dusk Raven  
(Techically a player’s civilization can be unaligned. the culture groups that the player controls are Societies that are ether actually Civilizations or big enough Social orders like the hordes of the steppes)

@The Mystory  
…Aligned to a player.

@Dusk Raven  
(I still don’t see a difference. I think we should just focus on getting our civilizations started and playing the RP because we aren’t making any progress here.)

@The Mystory  
(I second this.)

@The Mystory  
It seems fairly simple to me… which is probably why I’m frustrated because I just don’t see what’s so hard to understand about it. I probably should have provided an example, come to think of it. But at this point I don’t drop it, I won’t rest until I make myself understood. So… let’s get on with it. Been a month since this thread was started, I don’t know what else we need to do.

@Dusk Raven  
(Alright, so you said Steel Ponies in Egypt and not the other race you mentioned, Sphenxes?)

@The Mystory  
Correct, going to be playing a trio of linked races, nocturnal counterparts to the three Equestrian pony races, if that’s all right.
 
As I mentioned, “Batponies in Greece, Wolfponies (“dark” earth ponies) in [southwest] Turkey, and Steel Ponies (“dark” unicorns, largely similar except for their eyes and their curved, edged horns) in Egypt.”

@Dusk Raven  
(Alrighty, What color for each and what color for all of them If I can’t fit more colors?)

(Violet or indigo, whichever fits the map better. At this point (or very shortly into the game) they will be a single political entity.)