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Welcome to MetaEarth

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/Praetonia/Contmap2.gif

MetaEarth is unlike the other Earths as it is a player created landmass. It is therefore original, and much more interesting to RP on, in my mind. This 'Earth' also acts quite differently to the others:

1) Claims are entirely IC - you can 'claim' the entire continent if you want, but other players dont have to accept it. if you want to claim a piece of land you need to back it up with military force.

2) This is not seperate world! MetaEarth exists within NS Earth, and so any nation can send ships to it or attack other MetaEarth nations or colonies without having a claim. Of course, it is harder to attack without a claim, as your supply bases are further away, but it isnt against the rules.

3) For this RP, 2 RL days = 1 NS year. At least at the beginning. This is so some nations dont get ahead of others through time-wanking alone.

4) You can make up the terrain for your own land. Remember of course that it's bad form to say that it's ringed with mountains and a huge lake in front of them. If you invade someone's land, you have to stick by the terrain the original owner set. I may even add it to the map.

5) Keep advances in territory reasonable. When you want to claim something, download the map and shade in the bit you want, and then post it back up. I wont accept massive advances in just a day or two.

6) Since nations seem to appear out of the woodwork, claim on Earth threads and then disappear again never to post or RP at all about their claim, I will not accept all claims. If I've heard of you, or you have quite a few posts on II, or your RP quality seems good by your first post or two, then you will have no problems.

7) Nations will be removed if they dont make at least one MetaEarth related post per month. This is to free up space for active RPers.

8) MetaEarth wars are encouraged. If one MetaEarth nation attacks someone else in MetaEarth, it has to stay confined to MetaEarth unless both nations agree - it will be a 'Colonial War'. This is so people arent too afraid to declare war on each others' colonies in MetaEarth for fear of losing their nations. Note that this does not apply to nations without MetaEarth claims attacking MetaEarth nations.

Any questions? Do people think this is good? Or not?

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OOC:

I'm game. I want to RP as many different places as I can participate in, AS LONG AS THERE ARE MAPS!

This is to avoid god-modding distances, or logistics problems of traveling 50,000 miles in NS Earth.

Also, when can I start trying to RP in this Meta-Earth? I'd like to try to RP getting the peninsula area in the south 1/2 of this MetaEarth Continent.

OOC: As you can see, there be a map. Make a new thread if you want to land somewhere, or post here. A new thread would probably be better as it would publisise the "earth" and I think this is the time where we really need earth threads that non-earth people can actually part of...

OOC:
I'd like to join. Doesn't seem like Beorchria (sp?) is on very often. If possible, could I have that little penninsula off of that big one in the southern part, along with an island in the southeast? I have a map for the island already.
EDIT: I'll make an IC post later. Got stuff to do.

I would like to join. I might post a thread soon enought, first, I'll post the map here with the places I would like(The places marked with the red arrow). This is only for any hints from the better RP'ers on how to really claim that all
http://img129.exs.cx/img129/6610/contmap20oq.jpg

I should note that Praetonia does not own this continent, and so land upon it is not within my gift. If you want land you have to RP landing there...

Praetonia, I've started a RP concerning my arrival at MetaEarth.

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=7991495#post7991495post7991495

I'm arriving at the south part of the southeastern large peninsula (the one with the Cape-Cod hook).

I don't know where or how I can upload the MetaEarth map after I draw my advances on it. The problem is that I don't have a web server or anywhere to "host" the images for me to link up or IMG link here.

www.photobucket.com

It's free, and it stores your pics so you can use them again. It does have a size limit, but unless you want it to store high-res photos it shouldnt matter.

[OOC: I created a colony thread. I'd like the northern part (of course, I want to have as much coastline as possible. ^_^ ]

http://www.red7.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/WintreesCon.GIF

Is it ok if I take the North-eastern area as seen in the map? I'll RP the landings in a new thread if you give me the go ahead.

http://www.red7.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/WintreesCon.GIF

Is it ok if I take the North-eastern area as seen in the map? I'll RP the landings in a new thread if you give me the go ahead.
Sure. You dont need my permission, I dont own this landmass or anything... so long as your landings aren't godmodded it's all good.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=7991682#post7991682

Me. ^.^

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/Senor_Nb3/Contmap2RALM.gif

OOC: If nobody has any objections, I'm taking this part of the Continent.

Here is the RP. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=390954)

Again you have to RP your claims, but if you manage that then fine. Remember that that is an area several thousand KMs wide.

Again you have to RP your claims, but if you manage that then fine. Remember that that is an area several thousand KMs wide.

OOC: The RP is there, and we will bring colonists.

Praetonia, here's my map.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/Veristek/metaearth-1.jpg

The grey is my claimed territory (ongoing colonization efforts). Is this good for a 940 mil nation?

I'll put up another map, for my "final" claim that I plan to expand into and then no more expansion.

There's no limit based on size, only based on how much you can take. Note that it takes a while for a colony to become established, and everyone should note the scale in the bottom left corner.

Okay.

I just don't want to become an "OMG I Claimzz0rz super-ultra-mega amount of land! Muahahah" person.

Here is the link to my colonization.
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=7991999
It's ok if I make an island, right? Its only 100 kilometers, so it should be ok. I'd show you, but my image hosting thing is being really slow. Basically, its between that ram shaped peninsula and the mainland.

I'm game.
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=390973

My *claim* zone... Consider this a glorified tag until I get my RP running.
http://img129.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img129&image=map1tr.png

Wait are we supposed to claim off of that continent?

I'm planning to claim these lands.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/Veristek/metaearth-plan.jpg

Grey = first 1 - 2 years of rapid colonization.
Yellow = 2nd - 5th year of colonization / scouting.
Red = 5th year and onwards of colonization / scouting.

No additional claims are planned or desired beyond these three "zones".

Uh, I just did. I changed the map in my Claim thread.
http://img62.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img62&image=greensuncontinent6pd.png

Uh, I just did. I changed the map in my Claim thread.
http://img62.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img62&image=greensuncontinent6pd.png

You see, I made the initial claim / RP earlier today, which predates your colonization effort.

See post #10 and post #19 in this very thread. Your first claim / MetaEarth activity is post #23.

You claimed that you were colonizing the continent, but not which part.
But WTF, I'll just have to find *another* part of the continent.

Praetonia, I've started a RP concerning my arrival at MetaEarth.

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=7991495#post7991495post7991495

I'm arriving at the south part of the southeastern large peninsula (the one with the Cape-Cod hook).

I don't know where or how I can upload the MetaEarth map after I draw my advances on it. The problem is that I don't have a web server or anywhere to "host" the images for me to link up or IMG link here.

Green Sun, here's the "proof". Note the bold lettering in my quote of myself. This is from post #10.

I have a suggestion. We could be neighbors or something. You can claim land right next to my red zone and expand westwards or something. :)

Better yet...
http://img49.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img49&image=greensuncontinent7mg.png
I putr an uncharted island on there. One of your colonist groups could land on it and we can share the thing.

Better yet...
http://img49.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img49&image=greensuncontinent7mg.png
I putr an uncharted island on there. One of your colonist groups could land on it and we can share the thing.

Sounds good!

You picked a good place to colonize, plenty of shoreline, and harbors. Perhaps we could try to start up a RP with contact, then embasys, trade, and maybe alliance?

:) I'd be glad to

Sounds good!

You picked a good place to colonize, plenty of shoreline, and harbors. Perhaps we could try to start up a RP with contact, then embasys, trade, and maybe alliance?
Want to start now?

Want to start now?

Sounds good. I can post responses later tonight or tomorrow, as I have an increasing list of RP's to do. :p

Aye, I see what you mean. 7-10:30 is the time I'll probably be on tonight. Tomorrow it probably might be 4:30-10ish since it's Friday.

Interested.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=7999766#post7999766
There's mine. Sorry it took so long. Is there any natives on the continent?

Green Sun, here's the "proof". Note the bold lettering in my quote of myself. This is from post #10.

I have a suggestion. We could be neighbors or something. You can claim land right next to my red zone and expand westwards or something. :)
On stuff like this... you dont own it just because you posted first. In Sharina's IC eyes you own it, but there's nothing to stop him landing inside "your" claim - it's sheer godmodding to claim to be able to occupy all that land in just a few weeks neccessary to prevent him landing (not saying you're doing that, just pointing it out). So Green Sun, do you want to land there and risk a colonial war with Sharina or go with the other thing?

Also there is a similar situation with WinTrees and New Empire.

@Sarzonia: Can you be a little more specific... the land is fairly flat at the top, so the North is a little vague.

The Real ALM: Your claim is huge, and so will take a few years to take properly... again with the Sharina claim Mk II.

OOC: Heres a map with that island shown.
http://onfinite.com/libraries/294325/111.jpg
And here is another map of the actual island.
http://onfinite.com/libraries/290353/8fd.jpg
That is, of course, planned developments. The only city there now is New Groton.

This is the map of my claims so far. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/Senor_Nb3/Contmap3RALM.gif)

The blackish area represents the first generation area claimed, it has one city, New Newport, and two smaller towns, New Naha and New Kunashiri, so far, and an airport plus a dock.

The lighter gray is the area currently settled by farmers and planations, home to some farms, but not many people so far.

The darker gray is the mining and resource gathering area, it is also sparsely populated, with mines and some roads linking them to the main settlements.

All over, there are firebases and defense areas, plus RALM training and military camps, disguised as plantations.

http://www.forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=391006
There's my RP... feel free to join in. I need some good RP.

I'll join. But, I'm keeping the initial claim small. I'd like to have viable infrastructure as I expand, know what I'm saying? And as soon as Imagshack stops being a bitch and moves faster, I'll have a map up of where I land the troops and colonists.

But it's that curvy point to the Southeast, a spot near where it connects to the rest of the continent. I shall colonize it and it shall be mine....

On stuff like this... you dont own it just because you posted first. In Sharina's IC eyes you own it, but there's nothing to stop him landing inside "your" claim - it's sheer godmodding to claim to be able to occupy all that land in just a few weeks neccessary to prevent him landing (not saying you're doing that, just pointing it out). So Green Sun, do you want to land there and risk a colonial war with Sharina or go with the other thing?

Also there is a similar situation with WinTrees and New Empire.

@Sarzonia: Can you be a little more specific... the land is fairly flat at the top, so the North is a little vague.

The Real ALM: Your claim is huge, and so will take a few years to take properly... again with the Sharina claim Mk II.

First of all:
We're not 'Claiming' that land. We set up borders there to prevent others from taking it. At least that's what I'm doing. I chose a better chunk of land anyways.

Since we are all active goverments, we have enough force and goverments stable enough to set up borders we have the right to protect and claim as our own, even though we cannot fill them up immediately. It's been a half year so far. Green Sun already has small cities being erected, even though they are no bigger than Lenoir, NC.

On stuff like this... you dont own it just because you posted first. In Sharina's IC eyes you own it, but there's nothing to stop him landing inside "your" claim - it's sheer godmodding to claim to be able to occupy all that land in just a few weeks neccessary to prevent him landing (not saying you're doing that, just pointing it out). So Green Sun, do you want to land there and risk a colonial war with Sharina or go with the other thing?

Also there is a similar situation with WinTrees and New Empire.

@Sarzonia: Can you be a little more specific... the land is fairly flat at the top, so the North is a little vague.

The Real ALM: Your claim is huge, and so will take a few years to take properly... again with the Sharina claim Mk II.

I do plan on RP'ing the expansion of my colony to the "Mk II" map I displayed. I do not have any interest in expanding beyond what I've drawn on the map for quite a few decades or centuries, NS time.

I also explicitly stated the "time periods" the claims will happen in. 1 - 2 years, then 2 - 5 years, then 5+ years.

I'm not going to instantly claim all that territory immediately. I plan on following your 1 NS Year = 2 RL days rule, so by Valentine's Day I'll probably finish the RP of colonizing these lands. Valetine's Day is like 3 or 4 weeks away, roughly 20 - 30 days, which translates into 10 - 15 NS years.

That does sound reasonable, yeah?

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=391467

Theres my claim (from page 1) RP'd out.

If you don't mind, I'll make a claim for myself:

Claim RP (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=8007809#post8007809)

Better yet...
http://img49.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img49&image=greensuncontinent7mg.png
I putr an uncharted island on there. One of your colonist groups could land on it and we can share the thing.


That's where I made my landing already...
I didn't make a map yet though. My claim has been here for a while now. I'll get the link to it.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=390946

I've updated the claims map, scaling down some of the stupidly large claims (sorry The Real ALM but your claim was several thousand kms long and almost 400km high...):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/Praetonia/Contmap2.gif

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=8016678#post8016678

Maybe you should put the threads of everyone's claim threads on the 1st page, make it easier for others to keep track of what's going on.

I made an expansion on the continent to the north and north-east. I'll leave it up to you to determine how much is claimed. I'm pretty open-minded when it comes down to that.

Hmm.

I'm thinking I might want to change my claims from my original one to the peninsula northeast of New Empire and WinTrees. I might sell my old claims to someone, or abandon them when my people find out that these lands are rather infertile and unhabitable.

I'm doing this since the southeast area is starting to look un-appealing, while the northwest area appears to have more expansion potential. :(

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/Veristek/metaearth-3.jpg

Map of my new holdings.

Take note that it's approximately 150 kilometer by 250'ish kilometers as according to the white scale at the bottom right corner of the map. Better than my old claims which ran for like 500 kilometers by 300 kilometers.

I'm going to host a party for all nations moving to the continent.
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=8018040#post8018040

Praetonia, been waiting for this:

I have RPed the beginning of the assualt and ofter the secound post this is what I will have:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Truitt/ME.png

I will expand much more soon, my imperialism is itching.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=8018069#post8018069

T3h BUMP!

Okay, someone has got to tell me what's going on.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=392584
I moved to MetaEarth completly. I have a few maps, just let me find them.
EDIT: http://img71.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img71&image=contmap26vy.png

Could I please have:

http://img172.exs.cx/img172/6961/contmap20oq1ur.jpg

Praetonia, I will go ahead and assume that 14 NS years have past (since it has been over two RL weeks) and continue with expansion, showing that most of the land is populated.

Also, is this like the other Earths and I could RP as this, Multiverse, and Earth III as if I am seperate nations and militaries? That would be sweet if I could.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Truitt/Contmap2.gif

Updated map as of this post:
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8132080&postcount=10

Looking for people who need my exports and I need some things for imports also, trying to get this so I do not need to support it much.

IMPORTANT - READ

Alright people, I will be working with the maps for a few days, to get this up to date and to revive it.

Go ahead and post your claims and remember to make a RP supporting these.

As to making a map:

Take the entire map and save it onto your computer by GIF or PNG. Edit it to your liking, and than save it on GIF or PNG.

Host it somewhere, and post it here. I will review it, your RP, and see if it is feasible. This post will be the updated map until Praetonia makes a few decisions.

Now, as to map restrictions:
You may add land mass but do not remove it. Do not alter claims that other people have called, and if you do chance an other's claims, they must post saying so as verification.
As to adding islands and such, my latest updated map just above this post could be an example. The island chain I made in the far south east did not exist, but I made it feasible for 30% of my population, which that is now the limit to the amount of people who can live in your colony until further notice.

You can call me MetalEarth's Dictator (Just Joking Praetonia!)
Map V1.1
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Truitt/contmap24qaMOD.png

OOC:
http://img236.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img236&image=contmap24qa.gif
My updated map.
Here is the RP.
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=392584

Ramissle, that bit of land is a little big, the mainland claim. Mind downsizing it? For now I will add your islands, but your mainland claim you must show extensivly how you can support that since I can not see how you could in your supplied RP.

Map Updated V1.1

OOC: Ok, I'll add to that RP. However, when I made that RP, I moved my entire population there, so that 30% thing might be a problem.

Well, than you may be able to expand also into the landmass. I will review your RP when I get more time. I may like to add a new rule to Praetonia's. If you must move your entire nation into MetalEarth, be sure to allow sufficant time. For you, I am saying give it a RL week total of movment and an IC post giving in updates every day or so.

OOC: Well I officially moved everyone there like 2 weeks ago. I definatly forgot to update that stuff though.

well, just make a few update posts for a few days (2-5) and I will review them. If it is totally your population, that means your no longer a colony, but the nation as a whole.

I'm new at this. How do I go about making (and RPing, if neccessary) the claim? How can I get somewhere to host the edited image?

First, you need to RP your ships, airforce, amphibious divisions, or what ever you perfer, landing or dropping in at an open area, were you wish to go. Once you have made it clear and feasible, save the map I posted.

Go to Paint or any other of your favorite programs for editing and edit it. It should be located in My Pictures.

Once it is edited, host it on ImageStack.com or Photobucket.com, they are both pretty good and get you hosting right after signning up.

Be sure to post your and map here, not just a thing saying "Ohh, I claim that penninsual in the far south near Blahhblah."

Cool. Truitt you are now an official MetaEarth co-Admin :).

I should note, however, that this isnt a multiverse thing, it's part of the rest of the NS world.

I belive I mentioned that, as to Ramissle that if he moved his enire population there it would no longer be a colony. I made the 30% of your population limit becouse I wanted to keep most wars and bouts here in here, like colony wars (I think you also said something about that).

I am glad that I am now Co-Admin, and if you wish, I could keep that post I made (since I timmed it so it would be the first on the page) or I could varify claims and such and you could update your thread.

Really, your still dictator! (Plans your doom... j/k)

BUMP for new claimers

Now this looks interesting. I especially like that 1) it's on the big vague NS earth, and 2) it has safeguards to protect the motherlands, as it were. This suits WoS very well, since we're not long out of our equivalent to WW2 (having assassinated Hitler and nuked the continental United States :) ), and have a population of less than sixty million (plus some tens of millions further subjects in an intercontinental empire).

This is the first time I've even noticed this MetaEarth thing, so forgive any misunderstandings.

I think that the great adventurer Sir Henry Chaspot Wayne will be cursing the continent with his bloated egotistical presence soon enough, if nobody objects to WoS joining in.

So, if you don't mind, I'll go and work up an initial thread, now. Most probably it will not result at first in a Walmingtonian governmental claim on land, but in the creation of a new branch to the Henry Wayne Company, such as the Cape Company that ran one of the world's many Southern Africas for several years before it was 'nationalised'.

I'm just miffed that Praetonia nabbed that little peninsula! Henry would have liked to whack a trading post on the end of it.

Just before I go to make a landing (which may take forever, I'm easily distracted!), the Map V1.1 that Truitt just posted on this last page, that is more accurate than the one on the first page, is it? I just want to double check before we try to land on those islands near his claim only to find that they don't exist anymore :)


Edit: Oh! I meant to ask- any convention on native populations? It wouldn't really be in Sir Henry's style to take something unless somebody with less dangerous weapons had it first... I don't suppose anyone would mind my post indicating a small, primite native presence for us to wipe out or otherwise abuse?

There are no native occupants, although you can RP them if you wish.

You can make up your own terrain, weather patterns, and elevation, everything. Make a colonial capital, form their own government, or have them ran by companies for mining ores and hunts.