User blog comment:PitaKang/A Different History/@comment-1589986-20110322051245

Personally all this modern stuff is interesting but if we are going to create a plausible timeline it needs to have a framework for a timeline. how about we divide the world into peoples' "zones" (like for example, I could have Arakanese territory plus Peru in my zone). Every person writes a general framework for their timeline in their region from 0 AD (which I assume is the earliest POD allowed) until the first World War. People would ask around to make sure that everything harmonizes. For example, if I were Arakan and required trade from the United States in order for my timeline to be valid, I could ask the owner of India if I could have trade. Same goes for colonies. If I wanted to colonize the United States, I would ask the owner. That way the early timeline would be harmonized enough to set the ground for modern times. If we decide to have two world wars, we could play each as a map game, with stringent plausibility rules. Interwar periods can simply be written into every country's history. One the wars are completed, we will redistribute the countries to different people (to avoid people getting overly involved in politics) to carry them into modern day. Once this is accomplished, we can go back and fill in the skeleton. People will get back the countries in their original zone, even if they were colonized by outside powers. They will insert more detailed historical information, and add things like economy, culture, etc.