[The Kingdoms] RP story building - All builders welcomed!

That looks interesting. I like the idea of having something unusual in the beginning. If everyone started the same way it would be repetitive.

 

Welcome to Pedro and the New Terrans!

We will also get the trade portion started soon, once a suitable spaceport is constructed by one of our kingdoms. I will also add to the OP a method to track progress on all our kingdoms

 

Thank you! Well, my kingdom still has a long way before being able to build a spaceport, but that is one of my goals for New Terra.
Oh, and thank you for starting this roleplay, man, a simple idea and yet so fun!

 

I finally found what I needed for my colony (a sewer biome and the saloon furniture). It will finally improve technologically so I even decided where to build a spaceport, but it will take some time...

 

No problem. There really is no rush or competition really. Glad folks are liking the RP design to play. I've got an update I still am working on for my Kingdom too... it's taking longer than I would have liked. But the fauna are not behaving.

 

I've begun rebuilding my colony. I plan to start the thread sometime this week.

 

I have been away a few months, but you know I was looking forward to this very much.
Wait for 1.0 or start now!? I have no idea if I have the time to start something like this right now. Hm.

 

I'll be running something similar once 1.0 drops.... This is more like a trial or proof of concept, and someththing while we wait for 1.0. Cause chucklefish isn't exactly fast... Or even moderately fast.

I would do it now, though. Never too soon to practice and experiment with building.
But as always, it's up to the players.

 

I agree. The news about 1.0 is exciting, but there's still no timeline given.
I had another RP story-line going about a month ago about a lone, Felin explorer/treasure hunter (aka cat burglar).
But I was patiently waiting for you to hammer out your ideas on the Colony/Empire Building RP/Challenge.

I may start soon. I'll let you know. Reading through yours and the others now for inspiration. =)

 

Yeah, I followed that story, and some others... that's what gave me some of the ideas for The Kingdoms. And I wanted something like what the Corporations had done, but somewhat simpler and more fun to progress on.

And feel free to shoot any ideas about ways to make The Kingdoms better I'm up for any and all input!

 

I was actually just thinking about "general laborers" though I don't know how it could be implemented to improve the overall conditions of colonies.

The thought was that it seemed a little unnecessary to assign every colonist a specific job. There would certainly be specialists but you could have a mine foreman and everyday he could take from a pool of general laborers. Perhaps the farm needs 2 farmhands that day to generate more food, or the mines need more workers for more resources. The ebb and flow of goods and needs would dictate what jobs were available for simple laborers who live in the colony and do what needs to be done.

Again I don't know if this really matters, or if it just makes the whole thing more complicated but this way (for example) you could have 1 farmer and 1 miner and 3 laborers. Certain weeks you'd produce more food. Certain weeks you could produce more ore. You just build a labor dormitory or whatever and only create special apartments for the specialists and the "bosses." You could probably field more colonists with less specific jobs and more "general" population growth.

I dunno. It was just a idea that popped into my head when thinking about what I may do here in the future.

 

That is practically what I am doing. Those who play Rimworld or the Settlers know very well how important it is to have some jokers.

 

Yeah. It's been a while, but I think the idea came from playing Banished a year or so ago.
You definitely have a blacksmith pumping out tools (specialist) but the settlement thrives on laborers doing odd jobs as needed.

 

Banished is actually where I got the idea from! I was a part of a forum game there, and we are waiting for 1.5 to drop now... So in the meantime, I wanted to brush up on my Starbounding. Ergo, this idea

 

I made the thread! http://community.playstarbound.com/threads/the-kingdoms-rp-bustowia.113123/
The final score for my settlement seems too high, so if someone could check it for me that'd be great.

 

I'm throwing my hat in the ring as well.

You can find my series here The Rise of the Valiant

You should know, I am more of a story teller than a builder. That said, I'm always striving to improve.
I also don't quite get how scoring works exactly - but I did my best and I made a few tweaks.
I created a "work" category to include employment, tools and minerals (maybe just "supplies" in the future).

 

Sweet! Added you all to the original post.

Love reading the story starts to the characters, always fun to see how everyone tells their tales

 

That is right. I'm looking forward to see how each character's story develops.

 

The first Census has been taken! The results are in the OP. It gives a short summery to each of our kingdoms. Enjoy!

 

How are you determining "outdated" status?