After finding and loving the old Concordia, I, with some much appreciated help, have decided to breathe some life into this project with a revamped version! Comments? Thoughts? Suggestions?
I'm thinking that we put the maps from the wiki on the thread - the physical map, the ones with resources and the ones with the empires so everyone can see them easily.
I suggest that we leave Concordia behind, and start anew, with a new planet, with its own geography, and completely separate history and cultures.
The last project really only died when it came to writing the history, so that's a part that could be streamlined, or otherwise relegated only to interested individuals.
Rather than a couple of paragraphs to describe historical happenings, I recommend no more than one small paragraph.
However, I do agree that earler write-ups were a little too in-depth. While I appreciate attention to detail, it discourages other people from joining, and makes it harder for other writers to create the next piece of the timeline.
I think we should strive for a more ideal world, with more land on habitable latitudes and, for nature (this is just a suggestion), more archipelagos around, along and between the tropics and the equator. This equals much more ecological diversity.Here's a possible new world.
As a participant of the early stages the collaborative world project I support the idea of restarting it with a new map.
Additional I would suggest to replace the chronological description of evolution of cultures and civilizations with description of the world situation at a point in history chosen as the present time. The history of different states or regions could be then expanded in later entries.
Why should we start over? This project has already come so far, and all the other attempts to create earthlike worlds on this forum usually die near the dawn of history. And I think I understand why: nobody is interested in Bronze Age history. It's simply too slow and obscure. The only way to actually "complete" any of these worlds is to push on through the Bronze Age and into the Iron Age, which more people are interested in. Once we get there, things will start going faster.
However, I do agree that earlier write-ups were a little too in-depth. While I appreciate attention to detail, it discourages other people from joining, and makes it harder for other writers to create the next piece of the timeline.
I think we should strive for a more ideal world, with more land on habitable latitudes and, for nature (this is just a suggestion), more archipelagos around, along and between the tropics and the equator. This equals much more ecological diversity.
Of course I will still try to help with the project if these changes aren't made, just that there are many things for me to do in December IRL so I might be slow.