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Forum Games / Earth Sandbox

« on: November 29, 2011, 07:28:26 PM »

This is Earth, the original. It is 1900. Yes, that's right, it's not in the future but in the past. Time will advance as far as the players are playing.

RULES

All normal inventions have happened so far, such as electricity and lightbulbs. But, no countries exists. YOU my good friend have to come up with a country, and keep it from imploding. Obviously you do not have to do everything, and what your country is known for is up to you...

Please note the technology is currently 1900 standards. No trench guns, no M16s.

YOU CAN

- invent anything at whatever time it happens. Ex. modern computers in 1948

- your country can do anything it is capable of. Ex. go on a military rampage

- run your country in any way you want it to be run. Ex. a dictatorship or a democracy

- name your country what you want it to be named. Ex. snakeland yes, I will actually accept this

- use any technology that is at your disposal.

- GROW your country to be as big as you want it.

CAN NOT

the punishment for doing one of these or anything I deem inappropriate will cause your country to be wiped from existence.

- invent things in a ridiculous way and/or in a ridiculous amount of time. Ex. "WE GOT JET PLANES CUZ WERE AWESOME" or "WE FOUND IT IN A METEOR"

- try to hijack the thread from my control. Ex. "A massive meteor hits, causing all of existance to be wiped out. This thread is locked." EXCEPTIONS: if you are being a dipstuff and looking for some laughs I will not count it against you

- ask for a stupid amount of land. If you try to ask for a stupid amount of land then you won't get any. Ex. "I want half of the Earth!"

- steal technology from other people unless you send a spy or trade. Ex. "We got lasers from Country 1!"

- use technology that your country can not suppport materials wise and/or economically. Ex. have SR-71 blackbirds in a tiny poor country

- copy a real country. Ex. remake the USA

- change the name of your country after it is added to the map. Choose wisely.

GUIDELINES FOR WAR

Make sure all members involved are online. Be fair, and if you can not come up with anything use an odds calculator such as this one. Put in 0 - {your units} then 0 - {enemy's units}

Weapons can be anything as along as you have invented the neccesary technologies for them and the ability to produce them.

TIME

The year is: February 1902

Everything has happened historically normally up until this point. All historical happenings have happened up to 1900 except for ones involving real countries.

The timescale: 2 hours = a day, 1 day = a week, 4 days = a month, a week = a year

this can be changed if requested.


MAKING A COUNTRY

Country Name:

Country Flag:

Country Map*:

Government Type:

Allys**:

Pop.:

language:

National Anthem*:

Weaponry*:

* = Optional

** = you must request permission of the person you wish to ally




COUNTRIES:
Please re-post guys

Irajinia

USSR

Southern Coalition -- Repost

Kabuto

Ligacy -- Repost

New Aosan

New Rome -- Repost

Northern Republic -- Repost

New Midland

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Off Topic / I hate nursing homes.

« on: November 23, 2011, 02:39:57 PM »

I just went to see one of my uncles in a nursing home. No one has come to see him in almost 3 months, the nurses are so loving demanding of him saying, "GOOD GOLLY TAKE YA DARN PILLS!" when he can hardly even hold his arm straight, and all of his bandages covering half of his face are all worn out and no one has bothered to change them? What the hell? this isnt your place to come and hang out with ya gurlfrans, shawanda.

Holy jesus.

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Off Topic / Any Oklahomans here?

« on: November 22, 2011, 09:29:07 PM »

huehuehue.

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Off Topic / Anyone else out of school for the rest of the week?

« on: November 22, 2011, 06:28:14 PM »

So we're out for the next week and I was just wondering if anyone else was.

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Games / I'm seriously contemplating buying Minecraft.

« on: November 06, 2011, 11:22:23 AM »

So I downloaded some demo of it and it was very fun.

Just asking for some pros and cons GOGOGO

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Off Topic / Aftershocks here in Oklahoma

« on: November 05, 2011, 11:43:05 PM »

So yeah, remember the thread about The earthquakes here? were having huge aftershocks in Yukon

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Off Topic / The Rangers are 3 outs away from winning the World Series

« on: October 27, 2011, 11:54:04 PM »

forget, I can't keep still. such a good game

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Off Topic / Post your favorite video game moments.

« on: September 30, 2011, 12:21:03 AM »

Essentially post moments in video games when you thought your head was going to explode from excitement or epicness or whatever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN7dlE30DYY

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Off Topic / Political Science.

« on: September 21, 2011, 07:45:03 PM »

Gave me a good laugh, thought I'd share it with you all. c:

Political Science for Dummies...
 
DEMOCRAT:
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
You push for higher taxes so the government can provide cows for everyone.
 
REPUBLICAN:
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?
 
SOCIALISM:
You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.
 
CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE:
You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.
 
BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE:
You have two cows.
Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk the other, and then pour the milk down the drain.
 
AMERICAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows.
You are surprised when one cow drops dead.
You spin an announcement to the brown townysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.
 
FRENCH CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.
 
JAPANESE CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.
 
GERMAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.
 
ITALIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows but you don't know or care where they are.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.
 
RUSSIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You drink some vodka.
You count them and learn you now have five cows.
You drink some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you now have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes away the two cows you really have.
 
TALIBAN CORPORATION:
You have all the cows in Afghanistan . Exactly two.
You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts.
You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find alternatives to milk production but use the money to buy weapons.
 
IRAQI CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
They go into hiding.
They send radio tapes of their mooing.
 
FLORIDA CORPORATION:
You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally vote for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
Some people can't figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which one you think is the best looking cow.
 
CALIFORNIA CORPORATION:
You have millions of cows.
They make real California cheese.
Only five speak English.
Most are illegal.
Arnold likes the ones with the big udders.

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Off Topic / Good video game music

« on: September 14, 2011, 03:48:28 PM »

Call Of Duty (Original)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZZ2yZhgh_4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jY5Oh1Z_VM&feature=related

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Gallery / BBS Cutter (An OCNC Application.)

« on: September 12, 2011, 10:28:02 PM »

Before I start this, this is a submarine, there was no zone bricks so the pictures were taken underwater. bear with me.

The front of the ship.

The back

A view from the lookout chair

The hatch

The Command room

A crew bunk

Captains Quarters


Please rate x/10

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Suggestions & Requests / Trailers

« on: September 11, 2011, 04:30:48 PM »

Something where you'd have a trailer where you could put vehicles on?

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Suggestions & Requests / Altitude indicators

« on: September 08, 2011, 05:28:22 PM »

Nothing but an indicator or even numbers that tell you how high from ground level you are?

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Off Topic / FLuffeeTalks

« on: September 05, 2011, 02:49:02 AM »

Goddamn, This guy is hilarious I cant stop laughing.

http://www.youtube.com/user/FLuffeeTalks

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Off Topic / Aviation (Megathread?)

« on: August 23, 2011, 09:38:45 AM »

Aviation
since I'm way to loving lazy at 7:30 AM I shall quote stuff from Wikipedia.

Aviation is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft. Aviation is derived from avis, the Latin word for bird.

History

While there are many competing claims for the earliest powered, heavier-than-air flight, the most widely-accepted date is December 17, 1903 by the Wright brothers. The Wright brothers were the first to fly in a powered and controlled aircraft. Previous flights were gliders (control but no power) or free flight (power but no control), but the Wright brothers combined both, setting the new standard in aviation records. Following this, the widespread adoption of ailerons versus wing warping made aircraft much easier to control, and only a decade later, at the start of World War I, heavier-than-air powered aircraft had become practical for reconnaissance, artillery spotting, and even attacks against ground positions.
Aircraft began to transport people and cargo as designs grew larger and more reliable. In contrast to small non-rigid blimps, giant rigid airships became the first aircraft to transport passengers and cargo over great distances. The best known aircraft of this type were manufactured by the German Zeppelin company.
The most successful Zeppelin was the Graf Zeppelin. It flew over one million miles, including an around-the-world flight in August 1929. However, the dominance of the Zeppelins over the airplanes of that period, which had a range of only a few hundred miles, was diminishing as airplane design advanced. The "Golden Age" of the airships ended on May 6, 1937 when the Hindenburg caught fire, killing 36 people. Although there have been periodic initiatives to revive their use, airships have seen only niche application since that time.
Great progress was made in the field of aviation during the 1920s and 1930s, such as Charles Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight in 1927, and Charles Kingsford Smith's transpacific flight the following year. One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service. By the beginning of World War II, many towns and cities had built airports, and there were numerous qualified pilots available. The war brought many innovations to aviation, including the first jet aircraft and the first liquid-fueled rockets.

After World War II, especially in North America, there was a boom in general aviation, both private and commercial, as thousands of pilots were released from military service and many inexpensive war-surplus transport and training aircraft became available. Manufacturers such as Cessna, Piper, and Beechcraft expanded production to provide light aircraft for the new middle-class market.
By the 1950s, the development of civil jets grew, beginning with the de Havilland Comet, though the first widely-used passenger jet was the Boeing 707, because it was much more economical than other planes at the time. At the same time, turboprop propulsion began to appear for smaller commuter planes, making it possible to serve small-volume routes in a much wider range of weather conditions.
Since the 1960s, composite airframes and quieter, more efficient engines have become available, and Concorde provided supersonic passenger service for more than two decades, but the most important lasting innovations have taken place in instrumentation and control. The arrival of solid-state electronics, the Global Positioning System, satellite communications, and increasingly small and powerful computers and LED displays, have dramatically changed the roosterpits of airliners and, increasingly, of smaller aircraft as well. Pilots can navigate much more accurately and view terrain, obstructions, and other nearby aircraft on a map or through synthetic vision, even at night or in low visibility.
On June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded aircraft to make a spaceflight, opening the possibility of an aviation market capable of leaving the Earth's atmosphere. Meanwhile, flying prototypes of aircraft powered by alternative fuels, such as ethanol, electricity, and even solar energy, are becoming more common and may soon enter the mainstream, at least for light aircraft.

Civil Aviation

Boeing, Airbus, Ilyushin and Tupolev concentrate on wide-body and narrow-body jet airliners, while Bombardier, Embraer and Sukhoi concentrate on regional airliners. Large networks of specialized parts suppliers from around the world support these manufacturers, who sometimes provide only the initial design and final assembly in their own plants. The Chinese ACAC consortium will also soon enter the civil transport market with its ACAC ARJ21 regional jet.
Until the 1970s, most major airlines were flag carriers, sponsored by their governments and heavily protected from competition. Since then, open skies agreements have resulted in increased competition and choice for consumers, coupled with falling prices for airlines. The combination of high fuel prices, low fares, high salaries, and crises such as the September 11, 2001 attacks and the SARS epidemic have driven many older airlines to government-bailouts, bankruptcy or mergers. At the same time, low-cost carriers such as Ryanair, Southwest and Westjet have flourished.

General Aviation

General aviation includes all non-scheduled civil flying, both private and commercial. General aviation may include business flights, air charter, private aviation, flight training, ballooning, parachuting, gliding, hang gliding, aerial photography, foot-launched powered hang gliders, air ambulance, crop dusting, charter flights, traffic reporting, police air patrols and forest fire fighting.
Each country regulates aviation differently, but general aviation usually falls under different regulations depending on whether it is private or commercial and on the type of equipment involved.
Many small aircraft manufacturers, including Cessna, Piper, Diamond, Mooney, Cirrus Design, Hawker Beechcraft and others serve the general aviation market, with a focus on private aviation and flight training.
The most important recent developments for small aircraft (which form the bulk of the GA fleet) have been the introduction of advanced avionics (including GPS) that were formerly found only in large airliners, and the introduction of composite materials to make small aircraft lighter and faster. Ultralight and homebuilt aircraft have also become increasingly popular for recreational use, since in most countries that allow private aviation, they are much less expensive and less heavily regulated than certified aircraft

Military Aviation

Simple balloons were used as surveillance aircraft as early as the 18th century. Over the years, military aircraft have been built to meet ever increasing capability requirements. Manufacturers of military aircraft compete for contracts to supply their government's arsenal. Aircraft are selected based on factors like cost, performance, and the speed of production.


The Lockheed SR-71 remains unsurpassed in many areas of performance.
[edit]Types of military aviation
Fighter aircraft's primary function is to destroy other aircraft. (e.g. Sopwith Camel, A6M Zero, F-15, MiG-29, Su-27, and F-22).
Ground attack aircraft are used against tactical earth-bound targets. (e.g. Junkers Stuka, A-10, Il-2, J-22 Orao, and Su-25).
Bombers are generally used against more strategic targets, such as factories and oil fields. (e.g. Zeppelin, Tu-95, Mirage IV, and B-52).
Cargo transport aircraft are used to transport hardware and personnel. (e.g. C-17 Globemaster III and C-130 Hercules).
Missiles deliver warheads, normally explosives, but also things like leaflets.
Surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft obtain information about enemy forces. (e.g. Rumpler Taube, Mosquito, U-2, OH-58 and MiG-25R).
Helicopters are used for cargo transport and close air support. (e.g. AH-64, and Mi-24).
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used primarily as reconnaissance fixed-wing aircraft, though many also carry missile payloads. Cargo and rotary aircraft are in development. (e.g. RQ-7B Shadow, MQ-8 Fire Scout, and MQ-1C Gray Eagle)

Air Traffic Control (ATC)

Air traffic control (ATC) involves communication with aircraft to help maintain separation — that is, they ensure that aircraft are sufficiently far enough apart horizontally or vertically for no risk of collision. Controllers may co-ordinate position reports provided by pilots, or in high traffic areas (such as the United States) they may use radar to see aircraft positions.
There are generally four different types of ATC:
center controllers, who control aircraft en route between airports
control towers (including tower, ground control, clearance delivery, and other services), which control aircraft within a small distance (typically 10–15 km horizontal, and 1,000 m vertical) of an airport.
oceanic controllers, who control aircraft over international waters between continents, generally without radar service.
terminal controllers, who control aircraft in a wider area (typically 50–80 km) around busy airports.
ATC is especially important for aircraft flying under Instrument flight rules (IFR), where they may be in weather conditions that do not allow the pilots to see other aircraft. However, in very high-traffic areas, especially near major airports, aircraft flying under Visual flight rules (VFR) are also required to follow instructions from ATC.
In addition to separation from other aircraft, ATC may provide weather advisories, terrain separation, navigation assistance, and other services to pilots, depending on their workload.
ATC do not control all flights. The majority of VFR flights in North America are not required to talk to ATC (unless they are passing through a busy terminal area or using a major airport), and in many areas, such as northern Canada and low altitude in northern Scotland, ATC services are not available even for IFR flights at lower altitudes

My Personal Experience.
I have seen a lot of time in the right seat of multiple aircraft due to my grandfather, who is a pilot and owns his own aircraft maintenance company, Whether he's test flying something or someones hired him.