Entre Rios
Established Nation
I know that in the end we decided to sink Occidentia because it was real estate that no one used in its latter days, but I would say that we should start to think again about that decision, as the idea of a western continent seems to spawn again.
I know it might be very easy to put the idea down, but hear me out. The days of glory of Occidentia were in 2010/11 when there were I think 6 nations there: Warre, Freiheit, Altai, Aquitania, Guyana and Anglyn. Out of those countries, mostly just the first three were truly RPed. Though while that was a golden age in quantity, I would say that the golden age of quality came in 2013/14/15, when you had Sylvania, Seneca, Ommeroth and Camden there.
While I understand the need to try to make the world smaller in such a way to bring countries together to have much more interaction, I would say that now that we are in the modern era again, that might be a smaller problem than in was in the 50s scenario.
With the development of Echidna as an eclectic region, separated from the largely African themed Himyar, we could say that there wouldn't be a need for it, but there has been a recent surge of interest in American themed stuff.
I spoke with Beautancus and he wants to do an American themed nation with cherokee indians as an important population group, JAWriter wants to create his Mazidic Dominion as a Maya/Aztec nation of Brazilian proportions. Zeke contemplates to return to Sylvania as another American themed nation. Warre has his Arthalan colony which has mesoamericans and Justonia wants to have a hispanic identity. I would say that one can find in this list here both the quality and the quantity necessary to see a return of the continent.
It doesn't have to be huge, like Occidentia was before, but something to give people a place to RP their ideas and interests freely, without having anomalies like Mayans and Cherokees living hand in hand with Somalis and Zimbabweans, in the same neighborhood with the Greeks. While we all do love multiculturalism and such, Himyar is just transforming into a strange mess.
That is why I believe that maybe Echidna could be like broken from Himyar and changed into an Occidentia or having the Western continent rise from beneath the seas from scratch.
I know it might be very easy to put the idea down, but hear me out. The days of glory of Occidentia were in 2010/11 when there were I think 6 nations there: Warre, Freiheit, Altai, Aquitania, Guyana and Anglyn. Out of those countries, mostly just the first three were truly RPed. Though while that was a golden age in quantity, I would say that the golden age of quality came in 2013/14/15, when you had Sylvania, Seneca, Ommeroth and Camden there.
While I understand the need to try to make the world smaller in such a way to bring countries together to have much more interaction, I would say that now that we are in the modern era again, that might be a smaller problem than in was in the 50s scenario.
With the development of Echidna as an eclectic region, separated from the largely African themed Himyar, we could say that there wouldn't be a need for it, but there has been a recent surge of interest in American themed stuff.
I spoke with Beautancus and he wants to do an American themed nation with cherokee indians as an important population group, JAWriter wants to create his Mazidic Dominion as a Maya/Aztec nation of Brazilian proportions. Zeke contemplates to return to Sylvania as another American themed nation. Warre has his Arthalan colony which has mesoamericans and Justonia wants to have a hispanic identity. I would say that one can find in this list here both the quality and the quantity necessary to see a return of the continent.
It doesn't have to be huge, like Occidentia was before, but something to give people a place to RP their ideas and interests freely, without having anomalies like Mayans and Cherokees living hand in hand with Somalis and Zimbabweans, in the same neighborhood with the Greeks. While we all do love multiculturalism and such, Himyar is just transforming into a strange mess.
That is why I believe that maybe Echidna could be like broken from Himyar and changed into an Occidentia or having the Western continent rise from beneath the seas from scratch.