Defined Cities and Landforms for the Other Countries

So I decided to set out to start making a few international jobs for other countries to make getting your passport in To Earthland and Beyond actually worthwhile and I noticed... None of the countries have any sub-forums for cities or anything. Fiore's country is completely fleshed out with cities and landforms and what have you, but the other places just kinda feel like they were thrown there. I think that the other countries should be fleshed out a little more so that these places can feel more worthwhile to visit and easier to create jobs for and do jobs in and possibly even global Ishval events or something in the future. It'd be nice to have a little more fluff to work with is all I'm saying.

This seems pretty reasonable to me, I would love to have more stuff to grab onto in the site. I never even knew about the other lands until the earthland and beyond quest had a passport as a reward, this made me think that they were more forgotten and not used but I think we can breath new life into this. The fleshing out of these areas would be a lovely addition to the experience on this site.

In regards to not knowing about the other lands thing, the other countries were added at the same time as To Earthland and Beyond

Kirahunter wrote:In regards to not knowing about the other lands thing, the other countries were added at the same time as To Earthland and Beyond

Which has been around for quite a long time. I remember the other countries existing back when I was still the Ice Dragon Slayer over a year ago and Heero was still a part of the staff when he made those if I recall correctly, so yeah they've been pretty neglected for a while now. Was that what you were trying to bring up because if not I'm not sure what the point of mentioning it is...

They need to be redesigned a bit to begin with.

They don't make any sense at all. Such as a "High tech" no-magic supersociety living smack in the middle of all other nations for no reason, somehow having developed such technology with no bleed through, as with neutral grounds and so on. (Note: The -only- way Bosco could be the way it is now is if some cataclysmic event / failed super-science experiment hurtled the entire future city into the past / through dimensions and landed where Bosco is causing that circular border, a blast radius, and the cities to form the barriers to protect themselves both from unknown qualities in Earthland's air and to try as they might to prevent Butterfly effects / meddling with the natural order of this time/reality)

Or how all of Desierto is clumped into only 3 cities with 3 sultans, and somehow hates magic when magic would be the only way to support populations like that in the middle of the desert (As what information we have suggests they are) - also implying no coastal cities despite a lot of coast.

It's a mess. With the Wakusei portals we have no need of earthland practically being entirely different dimensions per country. Diversity, yes, but they're far too different with no sense behind them.

Also, Sin, the nexus of all evils and monstrocities, is just a thin strip of land in between Desierto and Enca while bordering Pergrande...


Needs work.

Honestly other than redoing them because some of the descriptions are a bit whacky, we don't need too much detail, just some cities and landmarks. I agree with Zach, just flesh it out a bit. I personally think more international jobs need to be made in general. Also include a tad bit of history about the country, cause we have several if not over a dozen characters not born in Fiore, my character included. Everything said so far is good, just tossing in a couple notes and my support so this can be known.

DragonPantsu wrote:

Which has been around for quite a long time. I remember the other countries existing back when I was still the Ice Dragon Slayer over a year ago and Heero was still a part of the staff when he made those if I recall correctly, so yeah they've been pretty neglected for a while now. Was that what you were trying to bring up because if not I'm not sure what the point of mentioning it is...

o-o Don't read too much into what I said. Triath said he didn't notice the other countries until he saw To Earthland and Beyond had a passport reward. I said that only makes sense because they didn't exist before To Earthland and Beyond.

Anyway the foreign country system is one that should have been a big deal, like really huge deal. But instead it seems to be a cheap tack on.

(what I was trying to say was that I did not know that they existed on the site. They were not big or even really acknowledged. The only reason I knew about them was because I saw that you could go to other countries with the passport. But whatever, it doesn't really matter.