What dou you think of the Interference TL by now?

Do you like my Interference TL?

  • The best I've read here

    Votes: 1 12.5%
  • Intriguing, good plots!

    Votes: 1 12.5%
  • Interesting and well written

    Votes: 1 12.5%
  • Well, if there was some map...

    Votes: 1 12.5%
  • Good, but I know nothing of that period...

    Votes: 2 25.0%
  • Nothin' special

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Chaotic and incomprehensible

    Votes: 1 12.5%
  • Too complex and involved to be woth reading

    Votes: 1 12.5%
  • *vomits*

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other (I wanna post my opinions!)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    8
Well, I mean to use this thread to have some feed back on my complex work, the Interference Timeline. I'll give you some options, and since I saw that at least some people endured the pain to have a look at it, I'll ask for your opinions.

P.S.: can someone who is good at working maps help me by finding/modding some to ease comprehension?
 
basileus said:
Well, I mean to use this thread to have some feed back on my complex work, the Interference Timeline. I'll give you some options, and since I saw that at least some people endured the pain to have a look at it, I'll ask for your opinions.

P.S.: can someone who is good at working maps help me by finding/modding some to ease comprehension?

I notice you're coming up to the 800s - if you cover Britain, the Danes, Wessex and Alfred etc I may be able to notice what/if you have changed. Its a long time since I did this for my degree (14 years) but some of it stays in my memory.

Potentially the same about the Carolingians - I'm guessing there will be no Song of Roland in this timeline ?

Grey Wolf
 
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There will be a Chanson de Roland, but with no Muslims (actually Roland died against the Basques, and so he does ITTL); it will be somewhat less popular then OTL.
 

Leo Caesius

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Obviously I'm biased, being partial to your TL, and not knowledgeable at all on the period you're in right now, but I think I can make a few relevant comments:

I like the fact that you've divided it up into smaller sections; it makes it much more enjoyable to read. You may also consider putting a brief (1 or 2 sentence) gloss at the beginning to let people know of any divergences from OTL in each span; it will help get the discussion rolling. Otherwise, people will read, but unless they know the TL as well as you do, they won't be able to comment. You've got a lot of subtle changes that someone who isn't familiar with each period may not note at first.

You might also consider dividing up each year or section of a year into a broad geographic area; that way people can "zoom in" to their area of expertise and offer comments or criticism more easily. Preferably these section divisions should be set off from the text and maybe even bolded to make them more eye catching.

I think some visuals will help. People here build entire TLs off of maps. They respond well to them. There are a couple of people here who are very skilled at map making, but I think that they'll need to work closely with you to make sure that they catch all the important details, of which you have a super-abundance.
 
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