Moved to The Academy.
Can you explain to me exactly what goes to the Academy and what goes to Mechanics forum? i feel a bit lost.
I'm running 5 NPRs on earth at the moment, it's kind of slow going but that gives me time to read through the fiction forum.
Note that running multiple empires might actually be faster if you control them all yourself, or at least from a story perspective it gives you better insight into the other empires. I have no idea what's going on in china, Russia, America, the Middle East, or India, except that they have a lot more ships than I do.
And there was i thinking about adding 12 factions, lol
Anyways, it must be NPR anyway, i do not have an specific story in mind, it will be the story of one of those colonial factions strugling to survive on this planet after the fall of their civilization, think of Alpha Centauri, but without all the gaia-theory story elements, just a single, geopolitical struggle that can (and almost centainly will) escalate to stellar proportions. :v
You said it was slow playing NPRs on the planet, then i will add just a few factions then, it will help me, because i will have less background to cover.
Finally, another question: there is an upper limit of population that a single planet can support?