Planetary Construction Project

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Welcome to The Planetary Construction Project!

Our Goal: To create a living breathing world from scratch using Earth's preexisting creatures with the eventual goal of hosting a series of activities within it's confines. Upon completion this world (It has no name at the current time) will be a fully realized system with flora and fauna, nations, governments, social ladders, economies, lore, and whatever else we want to add. It will be set in the Age of Sail and have technology reflecting this.

Think of it like one of the projects in the Spore section, just without the Spore. Creating a planet is hardly anything new and with that in mind we figured that these kinds of projects need not be limited to the Spore-centric areas of our forum.

How we'll do it: In order to make this new world we will each design our own sections and post them. They will be reviewed and suggestions will be made by the other members of the crew. Once a portion of the world has been completed it will be added to the map. The planet will not be complete until the whole map is filled, each portion of the map will have it's own information center describing it's make up. In the end the entire planet will have dozens of sections each with their own detailed descriptions.

The map will be kept to scale with a very simple system and members will be able to select how much of the map they wish to use. We will be using a cylindrical representation of the world, laid flat the map will be a five thousand pixel by three thousand pixel rectangle. Members will request portions of the map in which they will draw their landforms on, it will work out like this:

Player 1 wants to make a country so he will request a three hundred pixel by two hundred fifty pixel portion of land. A 300x250 section of the map will be reserved and Player 1 will then create an image file with the corresponding measurements. When his section is finished all he has to do is submit it and have it placed on the map, it will already be scaled perfectly and there will be no need for tedious resizing and scaling. Assume that one pixel equals one mile, therefore one hundred pixels is one hundred miles; our world is five thousand miles long and three thousand miles tall giving us a grand total of 15,000,000 pixels to work with.

And when it's finished: The completed planet will make for the perfect canvas in which to base Role Playing games, Meta-Games, Diplomacy-type games, and more! Really we are designing a place in which we can play games and have fun, and turning the design process into a game itself.

How do I join: If you'd like to help out just ask! It's really simple to join but be sure that you are able to satisfy the demands that this project presents.

The demands (Rules): There will be some rules and requirements in place to make sure things go smoothly and they will be enforced.

Respect the other players and give them constructive criticisms.
Be reasonable with your creations, do not make anything that does not fit or throws off the balance of this world. It is meant to be a world that could really exist and a god-like race of humans that can kill with their minds would knock everything off kilter.
You must maintain a certain level of professionalism as well as provide the project with quality work. This is not some project that will be thrown together, it is meant to be done properly and with care.
The majority rules; if everyone else thinks your stuff stinks then they reserve the right to remove it. On that note, there is no one person in charge, we operate as a ruling body and made our decisions as a group.

With that out of the way, let the game begin...