[War_ooc] Daily WAR restart update for 25 June 2009

[John Penta]

Yes, a different title to capture everybody's attention.:)

I figure that it's a good point for daily-ish updates on the process of
restarting WAR. Wide variety of things being covered today, so I'm sorry if
this is a bit long.
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Timelines:

Thusfar, with substantial assistance from Mike, Ian, and Dylan, I have
timelines for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, the Far East, and
Latin America. South Asia is currently under Buckley's...eye, let us say,
and should be posted tonight or tomorrow.

Sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania (which includes Australia and New Zealand)
are being skipped for now - as I noted with Sub-Saharan Africa, I couldn't
think up many, really any, events for that region. Oceania I'm passing over
even more broadly: The diversity of conditions between the larger Australia
and New Zealand and the small Pacific Island nations means I couldn't even
think up regional themes, which I use to guide myself (and anyone helping)
through event-writing. As we get players, I'll pull out my notes and work
with those players who take up countries in those regions to devise events.

The Caribbean I'm passing over as well: While it has independent island
states, very few are likely to be played...and it has plenty of foreign
dependencies. If someone wants to play one of these countries, they can, and
I'll work with them for event-writing when that time comes.

North America (originally the US and Canada, but Mexico will probably be
joined in) I'm split on: It could be something I do myself, or something I
grab someone to help me on. Possibly multiple people, it really depends on
what kind of response this gets.

Because seemingly everybody has asked: I'm basically not going to cover Iran
at the moment, because the situation is so fluid and I'd rather not be
lapped by real life just as we start.

In any event, I fully expect (barring something truly unexpected) timelines
to be done by Saturday night at the latest, but more likely tomorrow
night/early hours of Saturday. It'd be difficult to imagine a situation
where I don't have the last timeline (for North America) in your mailbox by
0800 US EDT on Saturday. Possible, but difficult. Once that's done, I'll set
the point of divergence and open the doors for country-picking.
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About country-picking:

How i'm going to do this: So nobody loses out due to time zones, work, etc.:
We're going to do it largely on AIM, in a buddy chat (a text chat). I'll
announce a tentative date and time (likely within 48 hours of the last
timeline posted, so sometime this weekend) of when we're going to hold the
chat. Come with your 3 country picks. We'll lay them out and sort out any
cases where two people are going for the same country.

After the chat wraps up, I'll post who showed up and what countries they
wound up with to this list. For those people, that'll fix the countries they
get. People who didn't show up will send me their 3 privately. I'll then
work with individual players on country timelines.

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Point of divergence:

I want to wait on a few things that might crop up over the next bit of time,
so I'm waffling between a POD of 1 July and 4 July (Wednesday or Saturday of
next week, basically).
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Start of play date:

It'll really depend on when country timelines are done. For simplicity, I'm
thinking that if we get everybody done before POD, we'll start play on that
date.

If not, I'll set one for after POD.
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Wiki wiki wiki:

I'm not going to hold things up on this account, but if you know MediaWiki
and have even vague skills with graphic-y stuff, I could really use a
webgeek to set up what is likely to be the WAR Wiki-and-webpage. It'll be
fairly vital to advertising efforts - people just sort of expect a webpage.
Because it uses MediaWiki, you don't need to know HTML - you just need to
have an eye for how things look.

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Advertising:

Speaking of advertising, if anybody wants to write ad blurbs, do ad banners,
or whatever, go right ahead...Please. I'm not good at advertising. Send em
to me when you're done with em, and feel free to post em where you think
they might fit (and get eyeballs).
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John
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