City of Ages: City-building Map Game

[CookieDamage]

Hi, everyone.

I don't know if any of y'all ever go to Alternatehistory.com, but I remember going there in early 2015 and playing this cool, turn-based city building game where you take an MS paint map of a city and add bits and pieces to it in order to create a bustling map. Here it is for those curious.

How to Play:

1. Claim a turn. A turn is a 25 year period in-game when you will be editing the map.

2. Copy the map of the turn immediately before yours. If you claim 425 to 449, copy the map made for the years 400 to 424.

3. Paste in MS Paint and use the pencil tool or any tool that isn't all pixel-y and make your plausible edits. You must save in a PNG format and upload to a site that works here on atlas. Saving it as a JPG or using pixelated brushes will unfortunately render your map invalid.

4. Post your map on here with your blurb within your twelve hour time window (as detailed in the rules below).

5. Have fun!

The rules from Orsino's game are as follows, with my own changes implemented in bold.

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Here's what the format will look like:

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The game will begin in the year -100, about a century before the birth of Christ and death of Roman Republic. We will first settle in an area in what is now Northwest/Northwest central Spain on the banks of the Durius River. The cities of Zamora, Salamanca, and Madrid are not as we know them, and the region is inhabited by a collection of peoples including newly arrived Romans and the indigenous Celtiberians and Lusitanians.

You control how the area develops, how it reacts to the Roman's might or the Visigoths power. How the city grows and shrinks when confronted with prosperous trade and the horrors of the Black Death.

It's a community project that I hope will be amazing.

Note, the key will grow and change as we continue to play.

[CookieDamage]

I'll claim -100 to -76 to get us started.

Claim List:

-100 to -76: CookieDamage
-75 to -51:
-50 to -26:
-25 to -1:
0 to 24:
24 to 49:
50 to 74:
75 to 99:
100 to 124:

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-100 to -76

In the year -100, Romans establish a small outpost on the banks of the Durius River to better maintain control of this recently conquered chunk of northwestern Hispania. Earlier in this century, Romans fought a series of successful wars against the Celtiberians, Lusitanians, and Vettones. They decide to construct their settlement near a destroyed Celtiberian village which was razed by the legion decades prior.

Starting in -99, some soldiers begin farming in order to supplant somewhat meager rations.

In the year -93, a well is constructed for the handful of Roman soldiers that frequently stop here for anywhere from a few months to a few years before embarking on a campaign further west.

From -89 to -78, the construction of a road is begun but is excruciatingly slow due to the lack of materials and laborers to construct it.

By -76, the outpost remains populated by a different group of soldiers, but a new group of soldiers are bringing their families from Roma, Emporion, and Carthago Nova in order to permanently settle near the outpost and old Celtic ruins. They will be bringing with them fifty people, among them farmers, laborers, and skilled and unskilled artisans.

City Name: None yet, but soldiers have began calling it, in Latin, the Outpost by the Durius (Latin speakers do ya translatin' if you want)

Civilian Population: None.

Military Population: Anywhere from ~10 to ~30 during any given year.