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Who Needs Harmony?: An MLP Empire Quest

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lockingbane said:
run into issue of being too close to the current quest.
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I repeat that Discord scattered species all over a massive world. There can easily be civilizations of the same species much farther away and very different to the one's neighboring Gryphus.

Like we could do a Changeling hive devastated by chaos and who recently lost their monarch bug and are scrambling.

Diamond Dogs that are more like dwarves living miles underground, their neighbors being other cave dwellers. (Insert meat eating brutal cave ponies, so that the dogs are surprised at civilized surface ponies as they are at civilized dogs)
 
personally I'd prefer a reset, so restarting from the Age of Chaos. We could have a quest in another part of the world, though, and maybe very later on we might eventually get in contact with Gryphus.

Here's an idea though: the Alicorns supposedly had their own land, and Celestia and Luna are from there. I don't know the details, I only know it's mentioned in gen 5. So maybe an alicorn civ quest?

Alternatively... another couple of ideas

1)A quest set right after Discord is defeated, and we control Luna and Celestia (or even just one of the two princesses) having to basically rebuild Equestria from scratch

2)Post season finale: Twilight has now become the princess: Have her actually bring Equestria to the golden age, managing diplomacy and contact with various other polities, advancing culture and technology, dealing with the still deeply racist ponies...

3)Alternative: PRE-Discord. The Three tribes just united: Equestria has been born, but the alicorn princesses are NOT a thing yet. Make Equestria great, actually unite the tribes, and try to prepare for the coming of Discord in a few... I think decades.

4)How about a modern day quest about the Dragonlands? Ember just became the Dragonlord, so now she has to try and rule the dragons. except they're... kind of uncivilized, to put it nicely. But maybe she can change that?

5) Changeling quest: I really like the idea of controlling a hive, with or without a queen. not sure If I'd prefer it in the past or present though.

of course there's all the other races too, and they offer more chances for original developments. Minotaurs, Zebras, Deers, Yaks, Yeti, Abyssians, bird-people (like the parrot pirate from the movie)...
 
I would like a reset rather than a continuation. This quest was too easy and this way you can reuse the Crystal Empire again.
 
Sivantic said:
I would like a reset rather than a continuation. This quest was too easy and this way you can reuse the Crystal Empire again.
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I think the QM once talked about the diffiulty. The quest was 'easy' because the players crit on certain moments. Sombra wasn't that easy to beat, and it took so long to end Sombra as a threat. The quest caused a civil war event due to their intererence.
 
The crits made the narrative amazing though. Every other polity wasn't doing so great. The griffins just knew how to not rely on magic! 😆
 
Pittauro said:
personally I'd prefer a reset, so restarting from the Age of Chaos. We could have a quest in another part of the world, though, and maybe very later on we might eventually get in contact with Gryphus.

Here's an idea though: the Alicorns supposedly had their own land, and Celestia and Luna are from there. I don't know the details, I only know it's mentioned in gen 5. So maybe an alicorn civ quest?

Alternatively... another couple of ideas

1)A quest set right after Discord is defeated, and we control Luna and Celestia (or even just one of the two princesses) having to basically rebuild Equestria from scratch

2)Post season finale: Twilight has now become the princess: Have her actually bring Equestria to the golden age, managing diplomacy and contact with various other polities, advancing culture and technology, dealing with the still deeply racist ponies...

3)Alternative: PRE-Discord. The Three tribes just united: Equestria has been born, but the alicorn princesses are NOT a thing yet. Make Equestria great, actually unite the tribes, and try to prepare for the coming of Discord in a few... I think decades.

4)How about a modern day quest about the Dragonlands? Ember just became the Dragonlord, so now she has to try and rule the dragons. except they're... kind of uncivilized, to put it nicely. But maybe she can change that?

5) Changeling quest: I really like the idea of controlling a hive, with or without a queen. not sure If I'd prefer it in the past or present though.

of course there's all the other races too, and they offer more chances for original developments. Minotaurs, Zebras, Deers, Yaks, Yeti, Abyssians, bird-people (like the parrot pirate from the movie)...
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I'm under the impression you desire a reset for the named characters you are familiar with rather than as a reset for one of the other factions this quest had available.

I mean there clearly was a plan with some of those races that weren't chosen. The kirin had a lot of work put into them from what we saw when we did get to see their nation as a japan/mlp fusion. The griffons were sort of like sky dwarves/romans, and the zebras were more africa influenced.
 
I think this new Quest should be in a different part of the world entirely and thus simply not connected to the events of this Quest beyond maybe some cameos or Easter eggs.
 
The first contacts, diplomacy, and politics were some of the more interesting parts. I hope to see more in the spiritual successor.

And maybe this time I'll be able to keep up with the sidestories.
 
I could see multiple playthroughs in this setting being popular. The best part was never quite knowing what we were going find next when exploring or what would happen from the random events each turn. I think a reset could keep that appeal by randomizing the regions and factions so that each game feels fresh even if we occasionally stumble across something familiar from a previous game.
 
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AthetosAdmech said:
I could see multiple playthroughs in this setting being popular. The best part was never quite knowing what we were going find next when exploring or what would happen from the random events each turn. I think if future games could keep that appeal by randomizing the regions and factions so that each game feels fresh if we occasionally stumble across something familiar from a previous game.
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Yep, I'm sending you to a different continent for this one.


Quick, someone post so I can advertise the new thread.
 
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DaLintyGuy said:
Yep, I'm sending you to a different continent for this one.
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You wouldn't even need to do that much. Word of god was that the climates, regions, ect. didn't make sense because Discord scrambled the regions up before he was defeated making it possible to find weird geography like a desert next to a tundra. The repeated first contacts were because no one knew who their neighbors were anymore. That's the cool thing about this setting: each AU reset could have discord putting the regions, races, and cultures in different places on the map. Add in the random events each encounter deciding what state those factions are in, like finding the Crystal Empire before it fell or finding Equestria in a civil war, and the possibilities are endless.
 
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AthetosAdmech said:
You wouldn't even need to do that much. Word of god was that the climates, regions, ect. didn't make sense because Discord scrambled the regions up before he was defeated making it possible to find weird geography like a desert next to a tundra. The repeated first contacts were because no one knew who their neighbors where. That's the cool thing about this setting: each AU reset could have discord putting the regions, races, and cultures in different places on the map. Add in the random events each encounter deciding what state those factions are in , like finding the Crystal Empire before it fell or finding Equestria in a civil war, and the possibilities are endless.
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I concur. Alas, the memories of the Empire are still fresh for the readers and would color any interactions with them before they became the power they ended up being.

DaLintyGuy said:
Quick, someone post so I can advertise the new thread.
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You may have doubted my word, and you would be right to do so.

But hey. New game. Currently we do not even know whose story this will be, which will be a choice in two parts. First the race, and then the specific nation you wish to lead into the uncertain future.
 
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