New Forum Poll

Alright, so we've narrowed it down to three options. To help you all decide, I am going to go into a bit more detail about what I have in mind for each forum.

First off, ALL of these will have modmarks. It's a good system and it's fun, we're gonna use it. Other than that, the mechanics would vary immensely based on what the aim of the forum is. Note that these mechanics are not set in stone, this is more of a guide to what I'm aiming for and ideas for how to accomplish it.

Skies of Morovia
- Skies is money-focused. In fact, cash is the only true resource. Other resources like Oil, Iron and Grain are "bought" with money when needed, either directly from your own nodes, or through a trade route. Controlling more resources lowers the price for purchasing that resource and gives you the option to sell it for more cash. As an example: if you have 1 Oil Well it might cost 10 gold whatevers to buy a unit of oil, but if you have 5 the price might be to 6 gold whatevers.
- Militaries would primarily comprise of airships. Think floating battleships, armed with naval cannons, machine guns, armor plating, etc. Fighters and carriers would also be prominent. Classes will likely include Battleships, Carriers, Cruisers, etc.
- Logistics will be important in skies. Fleets will have a distance limit, meaning they cannot operate effectively if they're too far from a friendly depot. Isolated depots don't automatically get supplied, so effective power projection requires "chains" of outposts and control of many small islands that will dot the map.
- All empires will have ideologies that will give them specific bonuses and penalties. By controlling enclaves in foreign nations and monopolizing trade routes, you can spread your ideology.
- Skies would have a central market, which anyone who has at least 1 trade node can access. This central market has a going price for resources which changes about every month based on what is going in or out of it. Controling trade nodes also allows people to tax the market, raising prices for everyone but boosting their income, blockading nodes, spreading their ideology, etc.

Bronze Cauldron
- The biggest distinct element of Bronze Cauldron is that you will be playing as a people rather than a Faction. Your people can be politically divided, or even conquered, but that's not the end of the game for you. You can control your people and their actions even if you're oppressed, causing trouble or synergizing with your conquerors.
- Tech, likewise, operates by people rather than faction. Every people has their own technology, chosen from a number of short, progressing trees. For example, The Metallurgy tree goes none -> Copper -> Bronze -> Superior Bronze -> Iron. A people who have copper forging can never get bronze or iron themselves, but they CAN conquer a city of people who have bronze smithing and use their weapons.
- Resources would be somewhat complicated, requiring combinations in some cases. For example, forging bronze requires access to both tin and copper (this is the major advantage of iron weapons, which would only require access to the much more abundant iron resource).
- This would be early bronze age, roughly analogous to the time of the Hittites. It would be the time of the Phoenicians, the Hittites, Assyrians and New Egypt, with all the stylistic elements that involves. Civilizations would be significantly smaller scale than we're used to and technology would be different.
- Trade Routes act as a common market for any people who control stops along the route. This allows people to buy/sell resources they need or have an abundance of without being right next to each other, or negotiating specifically for them every turn. It also would open up strategic elements, since trade routes can be cut off or monopolized.

Return to Allis
- Mortal and Divine factions would have distinct mechanics. Mortals get customizeable armies, cities, villages and the traditional resource system from Allis, with Food, Iron, Gold, Wood and Stone. Divine factions, by contrast, will get a centralized bastion/tower with unique abilities, and will be heavily reliant on finding and accessing magical sites. Divine factions will also have more customizeable "races" and generally more powerful but less numerous units.
- The presence of "Rifts" connecting Allis to the Divine realm will be a major factor. Divine factions need the rifts to survive and can get upgrades and mana from them. Mortal races can either tap them for magical power, or close them to drive away divine factions and find other, more mundane resources in the area.
- Allis would be heavily narrative focused. Heroes are super important, as would exploration and finding artifacts and secret locations.
- Turns would only occur about every month. Players would have a slower system driven by modmarks, using resources as currency to make decisions.

Bronze Cauldron is my vote but Allis is a second if I had one, narrative focused forum yahoo

Skies is my first choice, but Bronze Cauldron is a very close second.

So what are we going with here? Cauldron?