The Century of Blood, the IV ASOIAF game Sign-Up Topic and Rules thread

[leonardothered]

I have my last final Thursday and won't be able to fully devote time to the game until after then.

I'll probably update in Saturday afternoon, is that enough time?

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The Mid-Turn is up, with whoever sent me orders for it. I think there were only 3-4 who had such orders so it's a bit short

Let me know if there were any mistakes. Any orders not in the mid-turn will be detailed in the full turn update.

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Also as a future note, please label the subject heading of turn orders clearly so I can find them. Debating on possibly creating another account just to collect turn orders but that may be a bit much...

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Also to clarify, If you are married you will explicitly have to ask NOT to be attempting to have more children, as attempting to would be the default

Also by default your various Lord's might be fathering bastards unless specifically ordered not to be sleeping around

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Since finances are probably going to be more important than ever before in this game, I'm going to talk a bit about taxation rates, expenses, and bankruptcy.

All income effectively comes from feudal taxation since you don't receive any from septs/the seven and taxes from towns and cities are managed by their respective houses. You can be about 100,000 GD in the negative before truly needing to start making payment arrangements or borrow money from another house, NPC or player. Many houses are quite wealthy aside from Lords paramount, some even moreso such as House Hightower, Grafton, and Manderly. You can also take loans from multiple houses or from the juggernaut Iron Bank.

All taxes are set at 25% by default for all LPs, aside from Gardener who is at 20% post-war and Hoare who is at 30%, and the rate can be changed. Your income is about 1% of your starting funds for every 5% you collect in taxes aside from House Hoare, and expenses that you'd have at the start of the game for the royal guard and such are already covered. Expect army attrition to assert itself while in debt and if an army sits in one place too long after a certain size and in certain areas.

The financial stuff is just general guidelines; I'm pretty bad at math and will only loosely be keeping up with things, focusing more on big expenses and armies rather than every small spenditure and incomes. If you don't have any big expenses or armies, you can expect a boost to your funds at the start of a new turn. If it's not exact don't worry, if there is a big discrepancy let me know

Finally, you can sustain about 1/4 of your total levies without expending more than your income. Above that, you will start bleeding gold in order to keep them supplied.

Hopefully I haven't added too much to my workload with this, but it should help add a sense of realism, and if its too complicated we'll nix it

[leonardothered]

Can I send my orders today?

Yeah turn doesn't end until the weekend

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Bout time to start wrapping things up

I may only have time to update tomorrow, so try and get those orders in asap

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Waited as long as I could to delay the turn; if you didn't get orders in your nation is basically in stasis and I'm going to have to consider replacing the player

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Deciding to delay the turn a day or two. I don't really have time for this aside from the weekends, and if we want this to work people need to turn in orders on time. Running these can be a real commitment and I want to finish this one(and also in a timely manner) rather than seeing it fizzle out as they sometimes do, but that's not going to be possible without active players. Dereich had finals this week and even then found time to give a really detailed and thought out turn order. I can work with people if need be on turn schedule, but not without more communication; it doesn't help that I'm all 'raaaarghed' because today is mother's day lol

As of now I'm scouting around for replacements and I've already found one, sorry but it's not fair to the more active players to have the game thrown off balance.

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I don't know if basically having stuck to one's mid-turn stuff is enough to get one off the naughty chair or not!! Hope so tho'

Lol it's first turn I wouldn't worry.

Its just important to get SOME plans into motion because some may take several turns to play out, and if a person drops then their house could be several turns behind the rest

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Sorry.. I'm not trying to spam... I'm trying to up my count so I can pm for this game. I'll stop. My apologies.

There are a very large number of threads you can post in on the forum to boost you post count. You should probably remove your post in the Westeros thread too - could to keep the Roleplay threads compact.

Leo, which houses have been inactive? I might have a friend or two who may be interested in some particular houses...

There are other spots I've been working on that could be interesting; I've filled the main inactive house but there are a few others. The main point is not to throw off other people's grooves with giving a secondary house a player

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Well I mean to say I didn't want to give, say, House Hightower or House Reyne away without people agreeing in it, especially the person playing the Gardeners.

A few things that could be fun would be wildlings, a Lord of crackclaw point since they're undeclared, or maybe a sellsword captain

[leonardothered]

Waiting for some folks to give a final turn order; I got Aegon's first one but i was waiting to see of they had more after their mid turn update

Regardless it will be tomorrow for sure

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Ill have my done tonight-I've already claimed House Stark

You were too absentee, I've already given it away

If you want I can add you to the next turn as another faction like Braavos or wildlings, or maybe a sellsword captain or outlaw

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Well if I'm getting my position given away purely because I had exams then I think I'll pass on this

? You should have said something, how was I supposed to know you were busy and not just disinterested/inactive?

Regardless hope you did well, hopefully you hop back in at one point

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On another note, I don't think I can get the turn some until Thursday at the earliest, so the next turn schedule will be slightly over a week. I would expect a Saturday afternoon deadline of 3 PM CST every week

If we keep the rhythm up we could be breezing through the game

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Any update on when we can expect the turn to end?

It'll be up by Monday

I have a gig today working sound for some horrible showcase that will take up most of the day unfortunately so im looking towards tomorrow. Mind you I already have half of it done from when I worked on it last Sunday

[leonardothered]

Everything is pretty much ready to post, just need to make it pretty and give it a look over. Look for it tomorrow night

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Turn 2 is up. Let me know if anything feels off or if I missed something

Armies coming tomorrow, this took more work to finish than I thought hehe

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Planning for the deadline to be 12 PM CST on Sunday. Lets get them orders in folks

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Anyone have friends who want to join as Harren?

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We really need to get orders in folks!

Only two people actually moved troops so everyone should know where their stuff is

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Random question...
What season are we currently in?

Edit: Put up the Crackclaw POV - resolving the duel there mentioned in the turn update. It's quite long, and I was a bit too busy this week to make it as immersive as I would have liked, but I hope ye enjoy nonetheless.

Best POV so far. An enjoyable bit of writing too, well done. This bit I liked best:

‘At the foot of a dragon, he knelt. At the threat of dragon fire, he begged for mercy. At the might of House Targaryen, he shook.’ Lunthor watched in awe as Lord Aegon pointed his bastard sword at his father and halted before him. ‘Now you too will kneel before me, or die.’

There sits the bar ladies and gentlemen!

In other news, I have  another player ready to join, possibly as Harren. Thank you for being patient and for the most part present regarding turn ins for orders. The turn cycle will likely move to week and a half increments or two depending on coming turns, with an update in the middle. I hope to be able as good a POV as Weyfield demonstrated with some of them from now on

We're looking at Wednesday for the new turn. Please turn in any orders that have not been sent already, and hopefully we have  a more regular schedule

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Yep thats pretty close. Turn will be open until Wednesday evening, expect the new turn then and the next turn will have a mid turn update

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And I will need to address the issues before Wednesday or on the next turn then?

You can start that now if you want, probably for the best so you're as caught up as possible