Greetings and salutations!
Here the general public (that's you) can submit feedback, questions, comments, and so on to the greatest nation ever created (that's me), and you (to be clear, the general public) may or may not be solicited for said feedback and/or questions by me (again, greatest nation).
This is in part to give you all a general idea about how to begin these feedback threads with a bit of humor, but it's also a sort of icebreaker for something a bit more serious on my end: I'm not changing nations away from Josepania per say, but I am going to be shifting it away from a Mexican Empire to a more Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth vibe.
I've never really... gelled I think in the New World with my nation concept. It's had a sort of New World optimism to it for sure, but it's also felt oddly out of place with its super Old World institutions and projected attitude, especially in the realm of diplomacy. Furthermore, although I've definitely had plenty of Spanish names and phrases littered throughout my RP, I've never really felt like Josepania embodied a Mexican vibe, and I was never really willing to go through the effort to make it more obviously Mexican. Rather, it just... kept doing its own thing.
So, with the recent publication of a new map, the (hopefully temporary) departure of Zeek, and some time away due to RL constraints (both pleasant with vacation and not-so-much with work), I've made a decision to shift the cultural and geographic focus of Josepania to the east and back to the Old World, while simultaneously keeping as much actual RP done as possible in order to not... ya know... break the scenario and make a lot of folk annoyed. I've already talked with some important folk this would greatly affect and have essentially gotten blessings to proceed, so stay tuned for that.
Now, with all of that said, fire away! Let me know what you like about Josepania, what you dislike, both ICly and OOCly, and what you're hoping to see more of going forward.
~Jose
Here the general public (that's you) can submit feedback, questions, comments, and so on to the greatest nation ever created (that's me), and you (to be clear, the general public) may or may not be solicited for said feedback and/or questions by me (again, greatest nation).
This is in part to give you all a general idea about how to begin these feedback threads with a bit of humor, but it's also a sort of icebreaker for something a bit more serious on my end: I'm not changing nations away from Josepania per say, but I am going to be shifting it away from a Mexican Empire to a more Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth vibe.
I've never really... gelled I think in the New World with my nation concept. It's had a sort of New World optimism to it for sure, but it's also felt oddly out of place with its super Old World institutions and projected attitude, especially in the realm of diplomacy. Furthermore, although I've definitely had plenty of Spanish names and phrases littered throughout my RP, I've never really felt like Josepania embodied a Mexican vibe, and I was never really willing to go through the effort to make it more obviously Mexican. Rather, it just... kept doing its own thing.
So, with the recent publication of a new map, the (hopefully temporary) departure of Zeek, and some time away due to RL constraints (both pleasant with vacation and not-so-much with work), I've made a decision to shift the cultural and geographic focus of Josepania to the east and back to the Old World, while simultaneously keeping as much actual RP done as possible in order to not... ya know... break the scenario and make a lot of folk annoyed. I've already talked with some important folk this would greatly affect and have essentially gotten blessings to proceed, so stay tuned for that.
Now, with all of that said, fire away! Let me know what you like about Josepania, what you dislike, both ICly and OOCly, and what you're hoping to see more of going forward.
~Jose
