Time to start a new timeline.
Just a thought, maybe the timeline could stretch back to 2008. Have Mitt Romney win the Republican Party presidential nomination (the most common POD for this is Romney winning the New Hampshire Republican primary). Romney loses by a crushing defeat in November and both him and John McCain do not return in 2012. Per TTL, Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, Mitch Daniels, and possibly Bobby Jindal, Chris Christie, and/or Romney's VP nominee (I was thinking Governor Matt Blunt of Missouri) throw their hats into ATL's race. Nowadays candidates do not primary challenge a sitting president, so that part may have to be reconsidered.

As OTL, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, and Tim Pawlenty run.
 
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I think a good idea for these timelines is to give someone veto ability over updates so anything to implausible can be avoided.
I was thinking something similar. From what I've observed, "open" TLs tend to be silly free for alls or develop some control mechanism, with the former being more common.
 
I was thinking something similar. From what I've observed, "open" TLs tend to be silly free for alls or develop some control mechanism, with the former being more common.

They often seem to be a lazy way of writing a TL without putting much effort into it, with no real regard for butterflies or plausibility.
 
Like Israel?

It should be up to the thread creator, imo.
I was thinking something similar. From what I've observed, "open" TLs tend to be silly free for alls or develop some control mechanism, with the former being more common.

Indeed. There's also the problem with a lot of famous people being killed off, which quickly creates disbelief. I do like the concept of open timelines but I think having some sort of rule system in place to prevent too many deaths or outrageous events could make them a stronger sort of project.
 
It should be up to the thread creator, imo.


Indeed. There's also the problem with a lot of famous people being killed off, which quickly creates disbelief. I do like the concept of open timelines but I think having some sort of rule system in place to prevent too many deaths or outrageous events could make them a stronger sort of project.
I want this timeline to be big but I need help to settle down all this BS.
 
I was thinking something similar. From what I've observed, "open" TLs tend to be silly free for alls or develop some control mechanism, with the former being more common.

Or perhaps have some sort of "core membership" that can stop such absurdities. That seems to be why the Bush '92 TL is going so well.
 
You should try and mitigate the level of utterly impossible things in your TLs. I think that working on something independently is a good place to start, because it teaches you what will work historically and what won't.
 
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