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Ainz-harwig wrote:

OOC: No worries, NS was pretty much non-operational for most of they day on my end as well. I'll be sure to formally acknowledge Mithlin/Mathorn in tonight's press briefing. :)

In the meantime, does anyone have any advice for constructing a military? Different regions have different standards on how to log those stats, and I want to be sure I'm not overstepping. I reviewed The Socialist Republic of Saian's RP guide dispatch, to which it looks like NST is the best bet for manpower/budgeting. Do we start with a reasonable supply of equipment as well?

The Socialist Republic of Saian wrote:

Our region tries to maintain an honor code when constructing a military as we want to encourage a somewhat realistic yet creative environment for this particular aspect of RP. I think in regards to manpower, your current plot matches the IRL population of the area your nation currently resides in.

Edit: While budgeting and equipment are totally up to how your nation works. I used NST for Saian.

Nogodia wrote:

Manpower's also a general honor system, I believe.

Sorry, gents, but Saian's RP guide is quite old and we haven't really been following it for more than a year. Saian's guide was the fundamental basis for RP in this region, so we owe that player a great debt for putting it together. But big chunks of it were superseded by the guide Loustania issued when they were RP Minister. Loustania's rules were implemented to control rampant god-modding.

And, in turn, some of Loustania's rules were superseded by the rules on SIC orders, etc.

TL;DR: There are rules about military size, insofar as total troop numbers must be calculated on the basis of RP population size for the chosen RP era using data fed into the NS Tracker website (RP Population and Workforce Pull).

RP population size is controversial but for months and months now we've informally been using a rule whereby RP population is linked to the actual IRL population of the country's plots.

I have not unpinned Saian's RP guide because there is still a lot of good stuff in it, and I have not had the time to do the work to harmonize the still-valid rules from Saian's and Loustania's guides with the more recent update and the informal rules.