Generally the Kingdom is militantly anti-expansionist, and will work against any state that seek expansion by force of arms, directly or indirectly. At least as long as it is cost-efficient.

I'm curious how that stance gets reconciled with the possession of overseas colonies.

Gran Colombia is inclined to foreign adventures (Cuba, Jamaica, El Doarado/Amazon) if non-intervention is expected to result in harm to Colombian interests.

Quote from: Valles on March 13, 2008, 06:45:17 AM
I'm curious how that stance gets reconciled with the possession of overseas colonies.

I really fail to see why there would be a contradiction.

Hello,

I expect that Italy will be very involved with their Egyptian adventure(ie. I don't believe it will be the cakewalk they have claimed it will). They also may wish to maintain a large Med. presence to discourage/take advantage of opportunities which may/may not occur with the Ottoman gangbang.

As to NUS going to war over a $2 Colony, that would be up to them. But since the DKB is not against selling off colonies, they would do better just buying it back(decreasing DKB liabilities at the same time-as the french have done lately).

With Walters disappearance I would once again like to vote against a Japan-Swiss merger(and the creation of another superpower in the Pacific). It sounds as though he will be back. Russia and China are rarely around(both superpowers-olekit has recently re-emerged). I had the impression that 2 HYs without posting and you lose your claim to a country. Perhaps other more active players should be given the opportunity to take the helm, if they so desire.

Gotta go...

Blood, I think you're misinterpreting a critical detail of the timetable - the earliest I'd consider moving even if everything goes the best it possibly could for me - re: agreements, DKB developments, tech research, etc - would be on the order of 1915. 1920 would be a far more likely target date.

I am, as it were, figuring out what my ducks look like and where their rows should go.

...changing subjects while I'm posting, when I was doing my start, the mods allowed me about 240 BP worth of ships. I used, IIRC, 200 of those. Is the unused allowance a write-off or would a reasonable retcon be permitted?

240K?  Jay-zus.  I only started out with about ~180K for Gran Colombia.

Quote from: Valles on March 13, 2008, 09:14:39 AM
...changing subjects while I'm posting, when I was doing my start, the mods allowed me about 240 BP worth of ships. I used, IIRC, 200 of those. Is the unused allowance a write-off or would a reasonable retcon be permitted?

Jikes, your fleet is effectively larger then mine (in tonnage).  :o

Hello,

Yes that is a critical bit of info(regarding timescale). Changes everything in fact. Gives you plenty of time to develop storylines and support. I hadn't seen a time scale before so I 'Ass U Me d' that 1912 was the target date.  ;D

Rock,
Wow! 180K? That seems awfully low, was that due to losses from combat(with IC) or somesuch?

We had fairly rigid rules for specifying how much tonnage one started with, based on one's "heavy industry".  While I can't recall the precise formula, I do remember the starting units...many of the larger ones are still in service (though hopefully not for long).

Evidently the formula's been replaced or adjusted in some fashion since then.

Quote from: The Rock Doctor on March 13, 2008, 10:31:30 AM
Evidently the formula's been replaced or adjusted in some fashion since then.

OR Maoria has a few extra years worth of tonnage to play with. ;)

I doubt it - nothing's older than 1898.

QuoteI doubt it - nothing's older than 1898.

True, but my start was in 1910 rather than 1906 as I understand the rest of y'all's to've been.

1906 was the start of this incarnation of the sim, yes; several of us carried over from the previous incarnation with start dates between 1898 and 1904.

Anyway - wasn't trying to send your thread on a tangent there...

Quote from: The Rock Doctor on March 13, 2008, 12:31:46 PM
Anyway - wasn't trying to send your thread on a tangent there...

De nada. My own doing, really. ^_^

Quote from: Korpen on March 13, 2008, 08:33:26 AM
I really fail to see why there would be a contradiction.

The story of every colony in history starts the same way - by reaching out and taking land from the people who were already there. Even the act of keeping one is a tacit legitimization of that.

...despite the word's use for such in science fiction, I consider the settlement of genuinely uninhabited territory to be a separate phenomenon that went extinct on both real and Navalism Earth sometime around 1000 CE.