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My main issue is the time/distance as I don't want to post "Hey we found out the Pope died" as that'd mean a whole month has passed IC (since that's about how long it'd take for news to cross the ocean) and that'd be forcing everyone into my timeframe. I suppose we could establish an IC to OOC relationship to fix that. Like one week OOC equals one month IC.

We're already a month or more into it since news of the late Pope's death reached East Asia. Besides we need to progress the story.

My main issue is the time/distance as I don't want to post "Hey we found out the Pope died" as that'd mean a whole month has passed IC (since that's about how long it'd take for news to cross the ocean) and that'd be forcing everyone into my timeframe. I suppose we could establish an IC to OOC relationship to fix that. Like one week OOC equals one month IC.

We're already a month or more into it since news of the late Pope's death reached East Asia. Besides we need to progress the story.

To be fair tau and I both already have the telegraph...

My main issue is the time/distance as I don't want to post "Hey we found out the Pope died" as that'd mean a whole month has passed IC (since that's about how long it'd take for news to cross the ocean) and that'd be forcing everyone into my timeframe. I suppose we could establish an IC to OOC relationship to fix that. Like one week OOC equals one month IC.

We're already a month or more into it since news of the late Pope's death reached East Asia. Besides we need to progress the story.

To be fair tau and I both already have the telegraph...

That only counts for within your own nations. Rome isn't going to be sending telegraphs anytime soon. The message is going to be written and passed by courier until it hits your border where it can then be translated into a telegraph.

My main issue is the time/distance as I don't want to post "Hey we found out the Pope died" as that'd mean a whole month has passed IC (since that's about how long it'd take for news to cross the ocean) and that'd be forcing everyone into my timeframe. I suppose we could establish an IC to OOC relationship to fix that. Like one week OOC equals one month IC.

We're already a month or more into it since news of the late Pope's death reached East Asia. Besides we need to progress the story.

To be fair tau and I both already have the telegraph...

That only counts for within your own nations. Rome isn't going to be sending telegraphs anytime soon. The message is going to be written and passed by courier until it hits your border where it can then be translated into a telegraph.

We couldn't have a telegraph at our embassy to the Holy See? (I mean, it's technically our land )

My main issue is the time/distance as I don't want to post "Hey we found out the Pope died" as that'd mean a whole month has passed IC (since that's about how long it'd take for news to cross the ocean) and that'd be forcing everyone into my timeframe. I suppose we could establish an IC to OOC relationship to fix that. Like one week OOC equals one month IC.

We're already a month or more into it since news of the late Pope's death reached East Asia. Besides we need to progress the story.

To be fair tau and I both already have the telegraph...

That only counts for within your own nations. Rome isn't going to be sending telegraphs anytime soon. The message is going to be written and passed by courier until it hits your border where it can then be translated into a telegraph.

We couldn't have a telegraph at our embassy to the Holy See? (I mean, it's technically our land )

That is an incredibly long telegraph line to maintain stretching across foreign lands. You sure that's what you want?

Basically the next important thing to happen is the Papal Conclave. I'd prefer it if @Crushita wrote the opening of that, though it could also be from the perspective of a Cardinal arriving.

My main issue is the time/distance as I don't want to post "Hey we found out the Pope died" as that'd mean a whole month has passed IC (since that's about how long it'd take for news to cross the ocean) and that'd be forcing everyone into my timeframe. I suppose we could establish an IC to OOC relationship to fix that. Like one week OOC equals one month IC.

We're already a month or more into it since news of the late Pope's death reached East Asia. Besides we need to progress the story.

To be fair tau and I both already have the telegraph...

That only counts for within your own nations. Rome isn't going to be sending telegraphs anytime soon. The message is going to be written and passed by courier until it hits your border where it can then be translated into a telegraph.

We couldn't have a telegraph at our embassy to the Holy See? (I mean, it's technically our land )

That is an incredibly long telegraph line to maintain stretching across foreign lands. You sure that's what you want?

Just enjoying the role of devil's advocate

My main issue is the time/distance as I don't want to post "Hey we found out the Pope died" as that'd mean a whole month has passed IC (since that's about how long it'd take for news to cross the ocean) and that'd be forcing everyone into my timeframe. I suppose we could establish an IC to OOC relationship to fix that. Like one week OOC equals one month IC.

We're already a month or more into it since news of the late Pope's death reached East Asia. Besides we need to progress the story.

To be fair tau and I both already have the telegraph...

That only counts for within your own nations. Rome isn't going to be sending telegraphs anytime soon. The message is going to be written and passed by courier until it hits your border where it can then be translated into a telegraph.

We couldn't have a telegraph at our embassy to the Holy See? (I mean, it's technically our land )

That is an incredibly long telegraph line to maintain stretching across foreign lands. You sure that's what you want?

Just enjoying the role of devil's advocate

Just so you know, by your tech level (1834) it'd still be basically impossible for you to build a telegraph stretching that long.

True, but it's still technically possible.  You're obviously in a far better position to maintain it. 

But speaking of tech levels like that, do we have tech stealing or dissemination across borders?
 

...it's still technically possible.

...it'd still be basically impossible for you to build a telegraph stretching that long.

I don't know what part of this wasn't conveyed correctly.

But speaking of tech levels like that, do we have tech stealing or dissemination across borders?

I don't see why not, but it needs to be done in a way that doesn't god mod. The receiving nation also needs to have the means of producing such technology on their own if they're going to steal it.

For example, if a foreign nation builds high tech and exports it, I don't see a problem with a lower-tech nation being able to use it.

For example, if a foreign nation builds high tech and exports it, I don't see a problem with a lower-tech nation being able to use it.

I'm referring more to the German copycat Dreadnoughts and such during the 1900s and 1910s, and to a lesser degree other stuff, like the cotton gin and other stuff that just naturally disseminated without actual explicit trade.  Other examples: Gatling gun, rifling, etc.

There are some ways around this problem. Multinational corporations could even operate these things in each country.

Not really sure multinational corporations were a thing until later... I mean technically the Dutch East India Company was just Dutch, and most international trade was conducted between territorial possessions of European colonial powers and their colonies, with various independent traders then operating shipping between European powers. I could be wrong though.

Tis most fortuitous that we're not bound to real world history, then.