[War_ooc] Timeline side-chatter

[John Penta]

While I appreciate all the help on the IC end - the OOC end needs doing too!

I *really* want to see help in terms of web (if that means we set up a Wiki,
on Wikia or elsewhere, that's good too - I just don't want to be left
setting it up, as I suck at visual stuff like wiki/web design) and
advertising (including banner ads if anyone has the chops for that!) - I
want us to launch with those done so (particularly the web presence, be that
a Wiki or otherwise) it can all be kept up sanely as the game progresses.

So far as what countries you want - regardless of my begging not to, some
people already have sent in their country choices. I read, I sighed, I
deleted by accident.

Don't resend them yet. Here's why:

You might not want any of those countries after I'm done with the timelines.

How I'm dividing things - I will write up general themes for each region,
like I did with Europe. I will work with ONE of you for each region, over
AIM, on doing events - the intent being they're events with regional impact,
leaving room for country timelines to work with. One person can indeed do
multiple regions.

How I'm dividing the world, a draft plan for timeline-writing only:

For sanity's sake, North America will be the US (and possessions!), Canada,
and Greenland. Only two countries (plus Greenland) because they're the home
countries of most of the playerbase, hence I'll be unsurprised if scads of
events come up. Mexico will be lumped in with Latin America, which will be
Central and South America too. The Caribbean (which will include Bermuda for
completeness) will be handled as its own region - a smallish region, but
necessary because of the scads of foreign dependencies.

Africa is, um. There's arguments to be made about splitting it into
Sub-Saharan Africa and either mixing North Africa with the Mideast or
treating it on its own. Opinions welcome.

Asia: Afghanistan will be included with the Mideast, as will Turkey and
Cyprus. The Stans will feature as Central Asia. The rest of the Indian
Subcontinent (including Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, etc) will feature as South
Asia. Australia and New Zealand will lead off Papua New Guinea, East Timor,
and the Pacific island states in Oceania. Indonesia will feature in the Far
East along with more usual suspects, as will the Phillippines.

I may combine regions if there aren't enough events.

I'm going to most immediately pick Ian to help do the Far East. Ian, expect
draft regional themes in your mailbox today - contact me on AIM.

Mike, Ian won the coin toss for the Far East. Pick your next most favorite
region, let me know via AIM.

The regional themes are meant for the use of timeline writers for both the
regional timelines and individual country writeups, hence why I don't want
to just dictate them - ideally, they'll ring as plausible as my more global
themes. Feel free to suggest themes of your own devising for your regions.

John

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Michael Downey <
michael.michaeldowney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well as I am thinking about being a country in Asia I can help with
> the Americas.
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