NekoQueen49
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Well, she won't be fully alone. There's other people. They... just die quicker than her ig lmao. Btw has anyone here read the webcomic Everywhere and Nowhere?
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Realistic or Modern New Civilizations 1st Edition OOC
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Mitheral
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The hard part about traveling like that will be longitude. Historically this was made possible with the development of an accurate clock. Lot tougher without that. Probably just more math, but at night.
NekoQueen49
女王の猫
How far can you go with skills before it's considered op?
Mitheral
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Me. Actually Jesiah is also probably OP in this RP. Anyone with a lot of technical knowledge will be. I really wish I had insisted on running something else.
GTech
Director of the Department of Imaginary Affairs
To be fair, Jeziah is literally just a copy of my character from New Civilizations on NS, Viktor Nemtsov, who is a blatant Author insert. It's a weird old life I've lived, and flattering to think someone would find it overpowered for this RP.
Mitheral
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Well, I am thinking about retiring my character.
ShinGeorgeTownRaja
Member
How come?
ShinGeorgeTownRaja
Member
Yeah, I can definitely see why...
ShinGeorgeTownRaja
Member
My character absolutely has no knowledge in survival skills as well as historical knowledge of the Neolithic period. lol
ShinGeorgeTownRaja
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By the way, do you think this Wikipedia article seems legit to you? I just want to hear your opinion about it.
Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia
Mitheral
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My character learned about the Hittites when he visited the tomb of King Midas when he was 11. At least that was the tourist story about the ruler who was buried in the pyramid. He also “discovered “ a 50 pound stone bowl in the ruins that he managed to rollover to the bus, make it back to the school, transfer to the bus taking us home, off the bus in front of the Turkish-American theater, across four lanes of traffic, past the Korean and British embassies and down the street to our apartment.
Boy was dad furious. He said something about Customs and me spending eternity in prison. Indiana Jones in the making.
Boy was dad furious. He said something about Customs and me spending eternity in prison. Indiana Jones in the making.
NekoQueen49
女王の猫
Who said your character was overpowered??
GTech
Director of the Department of Imaginary Affairs
By the way, do you think this Wikipedia article seems legit to you? I just want to hear your opinion about it.
Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
Hrm, well, fundamentally any article with that premise is pretty dodgy. "Technologies", depending on your definition, literally cover the breadth of human experience. Any attempt to summarize or catalog them is going to be inherently incomplete and full of gaping holes.
But, eh. Not a terrible sketch to work from as long as you are aware of the limitations.
GTech
Director of the Department of Imaginary Affairs
Oh, not mine - R-Breezy's character is a built off of the bones of my IRL experience, and someone noted that a knowledge of metalworking and carpentry is very useful for this type of RP. Overpowered, even.
Mitheral
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NekoQueen49
That was me. What he said. Anyone with the knowledge to take Stone Age man or Early Copper age (pre-bellows, very limited smelting) and raise them to a Pre Industrial Era in a few generations is pretty OP.
Mitheral
"Growf!"
Well, just discovered something neat. I was going to have Jon try to use wooden dowels as nails to build his ships as Iron is so hard to make. I wondered if it had ever been tried. Turns out, that is exactly how it was done. Only that called them trennels ... or tree nails.
NekoQueen49
女王の猫
I guess I'll just focus on my stuff then... if I pay attention to whatever you guys are getting into, it'll just frustrate me
ShinGeorgeTownRaja
Member
Don't worry, just hang in there, buddy.
Mitheral
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ShinGeorgeTownRaja
Is there a limit on how far you want us to go timewise?
ShinGeorgeTownRaja
Member
Well, according to what GTech said when I spoke with him about this topic on NS, this is what he said to me when I asked him about it:
"Usually, I only timeskip when folks feel like they've completed their current arcs. Then I propose a length of timeskip, usually calibrated to how much is going on ICly (more happening, less time passes), talk it through with the lads, and we make the jump. Most of the time after the jump people propose things that have happened to their characters/civilizations in the interim, and we workshop that out."
Mitheral
"Growf!"
Well, the current plans are to build a small fleet of ships. Take one and start a friendship tour around Africa.
ShinGeorgeTownRaja
Member
Ah, I see. As for my plan? Create a Mongol Empire-esque civilization.
Mitheral
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I was going to meet whoever was in Egypt, but they haven't been active in awhile.
ShinGeorgeTownRaja
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I know, right? Not only that, but some others haven't been active as well. They probably might be busy with life, obviously. But who knows? They might return someday. Hopefully.
Mitheral
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ShinGeorgeTownRaja
Old subject. Yalu River. You recall why I had reservations about that region? This is something I found about Mesopotamia"They used canals, or man-made waterways, as irrigation tools to channel water from rivers to crops. Irrigation helped keep the soil moist, and the river water delivered nutrients to the soil. This moist, nutritious farming soil is what earned the region the nickname “The Fertile Crescent.”
The reason that civilizations first flourished around the Yellow, Indus and Nile was the river and soil. However, by 5000 BCE large villages spread out. So, I am off in Anatolia. The Yalu should be fine. The soil may take more work. But I suspect that even Ed can figure out solutions for that. (Manure, compost, etc.)
I also found some pictures of the lower Yalu. Seems to flatten out there. But the soil looks sandy. Poor soil, you can fix. Irrigation you can invent. In the upper Yalu, introduce terracing if needed.
When it comes to turning the soil (plowing) it will be tough to get very far down. Turns out that is a good thing. I read a report from Texas A&M long, long ago that stuck in my mind. You want to limit plowing to 8-10 inches in most cases.
