User blog comment:Arstarpool/R.I.P. 1983: Doomsday/@comment-461469-20100718042847

To Arstarpool and VENEZUELA: May I please ask what you think is confusing about CYOAH?

The idea was to make it so, that after choosing a choice from the first "divergence" (in this case, the Divergence is that Hitler must die), after which you choose the actual path the timeline you are reading follows (in this case, the year), and, then you get to the next divergence, from which you choose another path: This guarantees that, by the time its "done" (I'm pretty sure it will never be completely "done", but say it is), then no story will be the same way twice, as long as people choose different paths from different divergences.

At least, that is what I had in mind when I first started it. It was supposed to be along the lines of a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book, only we get to be the writers!

And, to Jazon Naparleon, thank you for working on CYOAH! The reason why I wanted to make it an open TL is so that everyone could contribute; My idea's are not necessarily the most creative ones, so if someone else can go on and change that idea, it makes the CYOAH even better overall.

And, last but not least: Sunkist, I agree, Wasteland Europe has great potential, and I will help out on it, eventually, but I fear its already set up to be another 83:DD; eventually, all the nations of the world get filled in, and the story is set, and go the same way as 83:DD is heading now. But then, of course, another TL will take its place, and the Circle of Alternate History will continue...

There. My spiel is done.