well okay. i don’t mean throwing the idea of a WAR away. it can still be a war. but the events that happened in that war. what happens. what pushes out what. you’re talking electronics too. what if never perfected nuclear technology up until the 1960s? but the transistors were developed much earlier for other reasons?
other stuff. politics, economy, national influence. we are talking full world lore here. lots of stuff to be discussed. and with the UE4 “re-start” lots of people are gonna re-start their company anyway. so seems like a good time to discuss now. if not a bit late.
let’s narrow down the time range then. 1940 to 1945. what happened? what pushed the technology to be so advanced in that time? what war? if a war, what happened in that war? what triggered, and what stopped the war?
ok so ww2 must happen and finish at 1946 which means that a few manufacturers can operate through-out the war. We have aircraft and tank technology to work with, a shortage of alloy materials, and a huge amount of returned soldiers,engineers and scientists from all across the world looking for jobs which means by 1950 the economy across the globe is raising and car manufacturing is starting to boom and take over from rail transport as the primary mode of transporting people (we don’t really have a truck range or even light trucks so freight can’t be included in this. (which brings up the possibility of rail transport for freight but no small - large truck manufacturing across the globe)
This makes sense
But perhaps we can change it to Allies win war, Gasmea (America, Mexico, Australia, Canada etc) becomes the dominate force across the globe both military wise and economy, Fruinia (Britannia, France, Western Europe, Brazil, North Africa including Iraq and Iran etc) Are reeling from the effects of war but there is hope in the air and those soldiers and civilians that remain start rebuilding there countries and economy’s. Archana (Germany, Asia, USSR) is limited in both manpower and economic progress due to ongoing conflict, and sanctions from the Allies
So with this we are starting to get an idea of the 30’s-40’s. I really think we should try to replicate world events as closely as possible but not real world manufacturers in any way shape or form. This is the Automation world and only our companies exist. However the World history makes far more sense to be as accurate as possible. The 2000’s onwards is where we really want to get to as that is where the majority of companies come into play (I myself only start in 2003). From 2000 onwards we can play with the historical events. Major wars need to happen, Major outbreaks of political or racial violence need to happen, Trade agreements need to happen, major weather events need to happen etc etc.
You can add as many as you already have at once - just select some columns and you’ll have an option to add the same amount in the right click menu. Or you can add one and keep clicking redo, that’s also quicker than adding them normally.
BTW, if you want I can upload it as it is with all the columns.
the problem with the first option would be that there would be lots of overlap, since many of our companies are similar/based off real car compaines, and thus you might have multiple Audis, Ferraris, Fords etc
the problem with the second one, is that it would take significantly longer to create lore that actually links together coherently
Hm… wouldn’t Archana be the closest thing to Vietnam? perhaps we could change it to an “Archanan Rebel conflict” and if needed, we could expand from there to have it be like only affecting a certain part of the country
true, it is kind of in a way, though it is the closest, as Gasmea and Frunia are both pretty far off from the real world Vietnam. and i did see somebody already put in rise and fall of communism for Archana, which is what the Vietnam war was about, communism, so it would fit in somewhat, since it was democracy versus communism, the only thing we’d have to change up is the Rebel forces would be Fighting for freedom. You could also include perhaps Gasmean aid, but it would still be a failure in the end.
away for a while and there’s already content. nice.
though i have a few things to say.
it doesn’t have to be ‘completed’, it can be just like a project car that’s never finished. we just need to get it into a ‘usable and believable’ state to be used.
so. to the actual timeline. that’s a long “vietnam war” but is it a national riot or a war between 2 countries? (could be within the same continent)
archana has a very long communism era. what about breaking it into stages?
the rise, the peak, the cracking, the fall or some sort. because it seems like it’s very hard to start and break into or out of the archanan RP that way.
so the rise means blocking everything going in and going out.
the peak stage is the same state except growing the internal economy/society and such albeit at a slower rate than the other continent,
the cracking is the people rioting here and there, and the government starting to open up again, although to only several parties
and the fall being… well… the end of communism.
It will never be finished so we can fine tune/ add to the lore. Having the major world events documented before even considering individual manufacturers seems to b the only way to do this “correctly”. I am very excited to see how this pans out, I hope it works but it could also be a massive circle jerk…
They’re fictional continents after all.