*peeks in from the mist of nothingness*
just wanted to voice my opinion on a few points I have seen here.
first it seems that an amazing amount of people made huge powerful characters, this is't nessecary a bad thing... but sorta.. power doesn't mean you have many levels. Look at the real big players in the last thread, their characters was rather average rule wise. (I though I was playing hugely over powered at 40 levels).
second, don't worry too much about rules, even in this phase this is for fun! because you are PL 40 and at war with PL 100 does not mean they win automatically!, be counning explain what you do to edena and the rest, perhaps make some announcement IC (which is really fun hehe).
Ohh set yourself a goal for the game, what is you you want to accomplish? I did this and I started well as one character only, and was fairly important by the end of IR thread 2 (at least in my opinion!).
hmm one thing that seems to concern me with this one thread is that a lot of nations are all pictured individual... I hope when the game start they will be seen as one unit, orelse at least for me it would be very confusing. And as for those suggesting others pick close by each other I stronly disagree with this, as long as I can see those nation unit under a common ruler so
As for the rules, hey don't worry about them, just say what you do what you want to research and such, edena posted them for you to hae fun with (and or maximize our claims if you so desired), there is no real win or loss here, there is only lots of fun!
ohh ignore my babbling by the way and enjoy

and gies lots of credit to edena, this is truly his show!