Coloria 3.0 Info

About Coloria 3.0 The Coloria 3.0 Grand Opening will be ????? ??, 2023 and staff will begin accepting applications from the “public”. There will be a “soft opening” for Coloria Staff on ????? ??, 2023 so they can get set up and settled before the project officially begins. What’s New If you participated in Coloria 1.0 and/or 2.0 you will notice a few important changes: No more mandatory activity checks. As long as you are active in the gameplay and on the wiki you will be considered an active citizen. Instead of monthly prompts, there will be challenges to encourage creativity and collaboration in a more flexible way. We will be using Miraheze for the wiki this time. A new feature: landmarks!

Staff There will be specific, dedicated Coloria Staff (that may or may not be members of server staff). If you have any questions about Coloria please ask the relevant staff member.

If interested in helping out, please click here to apply to be Coloria Staff!

Application Review - Lore Writer - Illustrator - Wiki Admin - Lexicographer - Game Master - Post Master - Map Master -

Joining Coloria 3.0 All server members at Specialist rank or higher are eligible to apply. (Basically, if you can see the #coloria-3-info channel, you can join.) You must complete and submit an application for review by clicking here. You may join individually or as partners (two people creating one country).

You must have a country name, and a sketch of your intended claim borders. Try to make your borders realistic. For example, more desirable climates with plenty of resources will usually host many smaller countries, and country borders tend to follow natural obstacles. Don’t try to hog all the good land or resources!

You must specify a landmark. This can be any major feature of your country or culture that may affect or be affected by other countries or cultures. Provide the name and type of the landmark, and if it is a physical landmark include a sketch of its location.

If your species is not 100% human, you will need to include a basic species description.

Magic is allowed, subject to staff approval. Perceived magic, like shamans, miracles, and hallucinogenic spirit quests, are automatically accepted. If your culture has “real” magic, you will have to provide a description of your magic system explaining the limits, laws, and specific abilities, as well as who does and doesn't have magic.

You must provide a language outline which includes phonology word order basic word list, include: greeting; yes; no; common question (ie. "How much?")

Your language outline will be put onto your country’s wiki. We would prefer you to have at least 25 words in your lexicon so neighboring countries can borrow words from yours. No natlangs allowed! If your conlang is obviously derived from a natlang, your conculture must be descended from (very ancient) Earth-human settlers in-lore.

You are allowed to use previously created conlangs or a conlang generator like vulgarlang. You do not have to create a new conlang for Coloria from scratch.

Coloria Wiki Each member will be responsible for keeping their own lore, building their country and culture as they see fit. You will be able to share about your country, language, culture, history, etc. We will also be adding general background lore about Coloria over time. Visit the Coloria main page for an overview and link map.

The required minimum to participate in Coloria is a country page (this should be your country’s main/landing page) and at least one landmark (capital city, religious center, major port, etc). You must request a country first, and when your application is accepted you will become an official Coloria citizen. Apply here for either a new country or a new landmark.

Additional pages can be freely added, edited, and removed as needed. Do not request a landmark page for country-specific or culture-specific pages. You are strongly encouraged to have all related pages linked somewhere on your country’s main page. Rules We will be creating a new wiki for Coloria, this time on Miraheze instead of SlimWiki for a variety of reasons. Miraheze is open access which means there will be a strict set of usage rules.

If you engage in “unfair play” (like editing someone else’s lore, or falsifying war results), you will get ONE warning. If it happens again you will be removed from the project and never allowed to rejoin.

Each country must participate in the Worldbuilding Wager game. This game encourages regular activity and interaction with other countries, as well as providing worldbuilding prompts to write about. You have the option to send official communiques to foreign leaders, make trade agreements, invade other countries, and/or wage war! You have to include gameplay results on your country’s wiki; this can be as basic or as detailed as you choose it to be.

If staff notices you stopped participating, you will get two warnings. If you do not become more regularly active you may be removed from the project.

Participation is measured by the country, not by the member. If you are part of a team and your partner is not doing their share, you may request that they are removed without losing your country.

If a member is removed from the project, their country can go “up for grabs” and any other country may claim part or all of it. The annexation of new lands must be included in the claiming country’s wiki. Landmarks In order to increase collaboration, each country will now be required to establish landmarks. Landmarks can be major cities as well as historical, cultural, religious, or geographical features considered important by a country or culture.

Landmarks may be physical (a religious temple) or abstract (a major religion). Features shared between multiple countries must be official landmarks! These landmarks will be listed on the Coloria wiki main page and physical landmarks will be added to the official Coloria maps.

You will be expected to “visit” foreign landmarks and incorporate this exploration into your own lore. This can be anything, from a tourist writing a letter home to a military attack on a port. Consider how real life landmarks, both natural (Niagra Falls, Mt Everest, etc) and manmade (Great Wall, Suez Canal) affect the world.

Example Let’s use Kidzkdwyz as an example (this is my personal concountry and not part of Coloria but I am using it as an example). This country landing page would be listed on the Coloria main page under “Countries”. There are a number of links on the country main page. You will see a link to the page about the capital city Mıvwsxkx (this would be a landmark page as it would likely be important in international affairs and would have foreign tourism). The capital city page would have to be requested, and would be listed on the Coloria main page under “Map Landmarks” and may be linked to by other users. You will also see a link to a page describing the Supreme Council (this would not be a landmark page as it is specific to the country and would likely not affect or be affected by outside nations). This page would be added and linked from the country main page, but not listed anywhere on the Coloria main page or in any other country’s page.