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*Materializes* And meanwhile I can barely keep up with a single factbook. :'( (Seriously I love your verdant region) This is the tiniest and coldest freaking Japan I think I've ever seen. I love it ,_, Complicated, that one, yes. xD I had trouble making any factbook on that so I created a more Forestian-lore-type-thing with that, but honestly Jutsa's so weird that it's frankly most likely that it's actually aliens pretending to be indigenous Forestians abused by multiverse settlers so no one would be the wiser. Like, they'd sorta have to be given the messed up geography Jutsa finds itself with, not to mention the bizarre storyline, set of cultures, etc. '>_> I also admit I was a little unsure about having a remotely libertarian society as an alien race since it seemed too "human". Then I realized that was a sack of Feejayoplep droppings because literally everyone thinks aliens either humanoids, some diabolical hivemind, or both. I have never once once seen an anarcho-capitalist lizard race. (If anyone has a good book featuring something like this please let me know. xD) The only other issue I have is that having an entire alien world align with my relatively radical stats doesn't feel right, but hey most people don't use all if any of their stats. At the very least I can pretend it's just a really apt description of their Forest Experimentation Colony. ;p Edit2: Also I hate having a human-based conlang for an alien race, but what can you do *shrugs* Edit1 cause I noticed later posts, my bad: Wouldn't that make three? :P That said if you look at Forest's map as a Mercator projection (as I do), Shwe Tu Colony, Northern Wood, Zerphen, Nation of ecologists, and 1 otherFurilisca |
I apologize, but I noticed another problem. The actual distances and meridian distances between 15°N and 15°S (30° difference) and 15°S and 30°S (15° difference) don't match up. Also, the date still says March 15, 2022, instead of May 11 or 12, depending on the universal time of Forest. |
Related: ya ever noticed how weird the scale of the regional map is? Everything is just kind of... Very small Oh yeah you're right, that's totally wrong. That's because instead of "30ºS" it was supposed to say "45ºS". I don't actually remember ever changing that number, and I know for a fact the older maps said 45ºS. I'm gonna call it the Mandela effect and move on, thank you for pointing it out. The date does say May 11th though. Here's what happened: The part of the dispatch with the date of the last update is a link to the RMB post describing the changes made. What I do is: I post the dispatch, make the RMB post and then go back to the dispatch to change the latest update's date and link. So you were looking at the version of the dispatch after I had announced the changes, but before I could update the date on the dispatch itself. Quirky timing, basically |
That tends to be how most maps I've worked on... works... |
Somewhere between October 2019 and September 2020, the scale got completely changed without any significant alteration to the layout of the map itself - I have no idea why. Going by the scale, everything's size was chopped by more than a third... almost as if somebody flipped the scale from km to miles, but made no indication of switching units (the map has never had units anyway) so I really don't know what's up with that. All of my personal scaling is based off the old model, which is what was in place when VH was placed, so I just don't pay attention to the "official" scale anymore. Jutsa, Lord Dominator, Nation of ecologists, and The most serene republicans |
personally i like to imagine my nation, well where it is on that map, but on a world in another solar system who's sapient population look nothing like humans on earth, with its own past, present and future, unrelated in any way to events, cultures, perspectives, ideologies or beliefs, of humans on planet earth. i am of course only one, and not the consensus of others, and have neither the skills nor ambition to create and run a region of my own. such is the nature of what i first came to nations states to roll play. my colony of nolo gap is in a furry region, except there's almost never anything going on there. there are good people here who care about the kind of world we have to live in out of character as well as in, so i'm happy to go along, but in my mind, yes, another planet who's every historically major consensus decision was made on the basis of logic in the service of consideration. not a top down nation as nations states seems primarily to cater to, but more a loose collection of tiny villages that serves rather then rules by their consensus, with no one person as head of state, and linked by a web of tiny, just big enough railways, and free from building codes and the ownership of the land, but with again, its a matter of consideration for all things, which is the morality of my imaginary nations' cultures. (and yes, i seriously need to create a new fact book, or at least hopefully disconnect, if it isn't already, the previous one, so much has changed and evolved since i created that one that i did more then a real world decade or two or three ago) Einswenn, Rhodevus, Jutsa, Northern Wood, and 2 othersNation of ecologists, and The most serene republicans |
I suspect that the map's scaling issues are actually due to it being a Mercator projection, thus warping the relative sizes of nations near the equator and near either pole when compared to other nations. Jutsa and The most serene republicans |
Good morning. |
imagine factbooks https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yBJcEDq5AH7dgACLBzG2XcZoXkeOcpfWlOrwMqfY2RE/edit?usp=drivesdk |
Hey, for the smart brains in Forest: I recently found The Ages of Gaia by James Lovelock in my family library... Should I read it? Is it any good? If anyone here has read it, or at least some other Gaia book by Lovelock, are they worth taking seriously? I've heard good things and bad things about it, and I know many important scientists have mixed feelings towards Gaia, and so I'm a bit concerned about how seriously I should take it. If it's even worth reading, that is. Jutsa, Nation of ecologists, and York Zionia |
The original Gaia book I found to be very readable as well as informative. I think the "many Important Scientists" were reacting to media hype about the book, not what it actually said. Jutsa, Nation of ecologists, and The most serene republicans |
Probably not the answer you’re looking for, as I know nothing of Gaia, but if you’re considering a book you should always at least try it. Opinions differ wildly on different topics, so trying to form your own thoughts on the literature probably would suit you best. Trust me, there are many books I would’ve never picked up if I didn’t want to take the chance. Jutsa, Nation of ecologists, and The most serene republicans |
Hello, everyone. New to this region, but not new to NS - I've been playing for more than 15 years now. My current nation has a LOOOONG history in various permutations of the Sovereign Charter Region, where our role-plays were lengthy and novel-worthy. Alas, that region is a shadow if its former self, but I've invested so much into my nation that I can't give it up. I remember passing through here many years back, and it seemed like a pretty cool region, so I'm hoping to make my new home here and rest a spell. (Don't freak over my coming here from Black Hawks; when I left the SC I visited different regions to see what was up...) Einswenn, Rhodevus, Mount Seymour, Ruinenlust, and 6 othersUan aa Boa, Lofia, Nation of ecologists, York Zionia, Station 8, and West Barack and East Obama |
Yeah, just changed that.... |
Hey everyone. Today is the official deadline for entering the Basketball world cup. |
Bipedal like Nick Wilde and every one of the Equestria Girls incarnations or am I misunderstanding that? |
MLP bipedal like this: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-90-rSuGhids/WqVcG3sFo5I/AAAAAAAC1aE/p6FuXzluc1wk1JSreMXqW5LK4mPytxIVACHMYCw/s2000/DressupbyOrchidPony1520786407495.png Let me tell ya. finding a good SFW on google for furry stuff that is accurate to what you trying to portray is hard. |
That’s funky, I like it. Jutsa and Wandering alien scientist |
rustles through bushes, hissing in the dark Forest Where is civilization?! |
I bacc |
Hi bacc, I ate. |
A little bit of news from Rakavo (you know, that little nation in the mid-north of the map bordering Einswenn, Eryndlynd, and Siornor), just to let you know that I am still here :) Karkaiti Chancellor Sokti Deit murdered in his office KAVOTTUGA | Karkaiti, Rakavo's largest State, has been in turmoil since yesterday morning, when a cleaning lady discovered the lifeless body of Chancellor of the Palace Sokti Deit in his office, a large knife firmly lodged in his back. The police were quickly alerted and are investigating the matter; few details about the crime have been shared with the press so far, which is typical for Deit's secretive way of ruling the State. Kaansi Puonaksampe, currently Minister of Security in Deit's government, has been appointed as interim Chancellor until elections can take place. It is widely expected that Uora Okaitinni will try to be reelected as Chancellor and put an end to the authoritarian government of the last couple of years. Sokti Deit's twin brother Psoiba Deit, who held an emotional but aggressive speech to the press yesterday evening, claimed that his brother's murder was an attack on democracy in Karkaiti and Rakavo, and suggested that he would put forward himself as a candidate to succeed his brother. Karkaiti's executive, known as the Chancellor of the Palace (Kanseleiri Maisappa), is an office comparable with that of President in other nations. The Chancellor is elected in two stages: the people cast their vote on all candidates who put themselves forward, after which parliament (the so called Palace of the Peoples (Maisampe Ravottangeettika), consisting of 205 members) elects one of the five candidates who obtained the most votes in the popular election. Complicating matter is that elections for the Palace of the Peoples should also take place this year (the ongoing term will end in June), and both elections are constitutionally required to take place at least five months apart from each other. As the election of the Palace of the Peoples will be due in June, it may take until November before Deit's successor can be elected. Einswenn, Jutsa, Uan aa Boa, Nation of ecologists, and 1 otherThe Forest of Aeneas |
it is in the mind. too many call it utopian. it is where the dominance of aggressiveness is prevented, where the culture recognizes logic in the service of universal consideration, that is consideration for all things without limit, is the one and only alpha and omega of morality. Jutsa and Wandering alien scientist |
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