OpenGeofiction
Hello everyone. Like the title says I have a few questions about the map and the community.
First off is there any “official” ressource like a wiki about the different countries and locations on the map?
If not is there any one designing a country that is either french, english or scandanavian that has an organised metropolitan area that I may possibly join?
Also other then User Diaries and Private Messages are there any other ways that community members communicate. Something like a mailling list or an irc channel?
Anyways thanks for reading again. Hope to see your work progress.
Discussion
Comment from Boge on 24 June 2014 at 04:26
“First off is there any “official” resource like a wiki about the different countries and locations on the map?”
The admins are actually planning to integrate a wikipedia-styled encyclopedia with the OGF website in the future. But I don’t know when they are going to implement that plan. They mentioned it in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sk37V0IsB0
Second point: You can zoom in on other user’s territories. Or maybe ask them if you can join in.
Third point: I don’t think they have at the moment…I hope that they’ll include it too in this website. The irc channel I think is a chatting messenger, or something. I don’t know if we can communicate with other members, ‘cause you know, some members live in different places or time zones around the world. (I live in Canada, North America). So, some members edit by nighttime, others by daytime. So even if we have that, I think you can only communicate with few people. And, some other users are not active. I don’t know. Just my opinion.
Sorry, my first language is not English.
Comment from histor on 24 June 2014 at 20:56
Messages to other users I send via “Inbox”.
You can join the “Tara” State north of Latina. Some names are irish - but why you not will change the names in the language, you prefer? The great neighbor is “Latina” - mostly in spanish language.
Comment from Easky30 on 25 June 2014 at 22:45
Gobrassanya is open and there is still plenty of room to carve out more districts. English is the only language I know but I have been using Google translate to name some of the towns and cities in the Arrowic district. Most of the names are in Irish or Spanish and I find it a fun way to learn new words. a lot of the names in Orinoco are Native American such as Ronkonkoma or Yaphank etc. mostly tribes that lived on Long Island where I live now.
A Wiki page would be a great idea where we can post statistics and flags and maybe some sketches of our fictional countries.
http://opengeofiction.net/#map=8/19.751/86.440