Crowind: Both Mousa and David have stated they're not the same person.

I'd probably abdicate. I'd be a terrible leader.

I hug people I barely know so I'd be fine with it.

I'm not sure about 1 or 3 yet, but I think a Hydra would be pretty handy for defence. Unlike a dragon it can't be reasoned with, all it can do is murder all who fight my civilisation.

Either that or Timber Wolves. Dudes double as Apple growers what's not to love?

edited 18th Jan '12 11:41:36 AM by Badwolfwho

I'd love an Enchanted Sky City, but assuming it's like Cloudsdale, that would be a terrible decision. Given that it looks like I only get to specify one type and that my pegasi can control the weather, I'd go for wide open plain.

Hmmm, for combat and only combat, eh? I'd probably go Cockatrice for the most bang for my buck. The smaller animal would be less maintenance and a petrifying gaze is extremely powerful.

Probably population expansion at first. Once the city is looking big enough, I'd probably swap to science.

General roles would be for earth ponies and pegasi to work closely together to achieve optimal food output. The unicorns would probably do science and work with earth ponies on construction. Once everything looks stable enough, I'd let individuals in a race drift to whatever interests them.

Something akin to Fortree City. I've always liked the idea of living in treehouses and stuff.

Dragons or hydras, but most likely dragons.

Fashion, so I have an excuse to talk to Rarity. Plus ponies in clothes are always nice.

Unicorns and earth ponies work to help design clothing, own shops, etc. Pegasi control the weather and dragons.

edited 18th Jan '12 12:01:09 PM by Chariot

@Kuroi: Oh, my bad then.

1. environment: I'd probably go with desert. It's what I'm familiar with, and I know what a desert society needs to do to thrive. Forest would be awesome too though.

2. critter: Windigos, full stop. They have the added benefit of only being dangerous to ponies who are causing trouble so it's more difficult to abuse your power.

3. Focus: I'm going with infrastructure and social construction. The desert is a hard place, and you need to cooperate in order to survive. First order of business is getting a working irrigation system and proper water-laws in place. Pegasi scout for bodies of water and springs, excavation would be handled by unicorns and earth ponies, and then agriculture is the domain of the earth ponies themselves.

Unicorns would be absolutely vital in devising better pest-control methods to aid the earth ponies, and the pegasi would need to set up an extremely extensive weather control system, roaming hundreds of miles to gather moisture nessecary for making rain, and possibly setting up a system of trade with other regions to bring in clouds from more humid areas. They could have cloud drives like the old west had cattle drives, except in reverse.

Something occurred to me: if becoming the leader involves having to be an alicorn, I'm not sure I could handle it. And not for lack of ability to plan and manage. I'd more than likely get quite attached to my ponies and being immortal would make that suck. A lot.

Only one thing can solve inmortality poroblems... More immortality! Make everyone immortal

Jk it would be very sad indeed. I cant imagine what Celestia will feel the day twilight isnt around anymore :(

edited 18th Jan '12 12:27:49 PM by FallenLegend

God, I was just playing Ace Attorney.

Hearing Godot refer to Franziska Von Karma as: "Mare", "Filly", and "Equestrian Angel" was just hilarious given what else I watch.

Are there any pics of ponified Franziska?

edited 18th Jan '12 12:28:22 PM by gingerninja666

Those Ace Attorney crossover videos have made me want to try those games now. They look fun.

I am studing law and love poniws, why havent I played thise games?!!

The videos I saw weren't actual gameplay, just a video done to look like the games, with Ace as the actual attorney of course. It's freaking awesome though, and long.

edited 18th Jan '12 12:32:51 PM by CDRW

1) Environment: Some type of tropical/temperate rainforest area surrounding a lake. There would be farms, suburban areas, industrial locations, etc. along the shore line with the rest of the buildings located above and on top of the lake.

2) Animal Taming: Timberwolves. Good for not only defending the shoreline but also defending against sea monster the lake produces in case any surface and attack.

3) Focus: The locations around the shore will be merely for population expansion while the facilities above the lake will be devoted to the science, specifically the creation of electronic devices, working with aquatic lifeforms, more efficient and less intrusive forms of weather manipulation, and experimental magics.

4) Roles: The Earth ponies will be in charge of the shoreline and heavy duty construction as well as providing food, possibly mostly from farming fruit trees raised from the forest itself and/or gathering from wild life. The unicorns will handle most of the above lake construction and will be the ones doing most of the scientific research with possible assistance from the other two races. Pegasi will not only regulate the weather but will also be acting mostly as security, acting as both scouts for threats outside the settlement and against hostile sea creatures under the lake surface using specialized unicorn made suits.

Both Earth and Pegasus ponies will be in charge of taming the Timberwolves, Unicorns and Pegasi will be in charge to providing the experimental weather techniques used by the settlement, and Earth and Unicorn ponies will handle the experimental tech with the unicorns doing inital designs and experimentation and Earth ponies testing them out as well as providing revisions to make them more practical.

I just had an idea. Well, two ideas.

Black Beauty crossover fic?

The Black Stallion crossover fic?

@Fallen You study law and you want to play Ace Attorney?

pffffffft hahahahahahahahaha.

We're talking about a legal system for these games where the prosecution is openly allowed to whip people

Fallen: Yea... I've had a decent amount of time to explore the concept, as before I got into pony, I spent some time writing some original stuff. One of my characters was a lot like a toned down Pinkie Pie in terms of being cheerful, forward and wanting to be friends with everyone. She also happened to be one of my immortal characters and writing her believably ended in a hard crash. Pinkamina style (canon version, not the fanon psycho).

CDRW: The main character is Phoenix Wright, not Ace. Ace Attorney is the name of the series. Cases are typically pretty long (they get longer as they go... first case is anywhere from 30-90 mins depending on the game and the last case is usually a huge epic complex case that runs 5-6 hours), but there's only 4-5 per cartridge. They are indeed quite good, if a little rail roady at times. Oh and don't mind the occasional idiot balls (they keep 'em to a minimum, but the ones that do show up are doozies that may induce face palming).

You know? I, I actually knew his name. I'm just having brain farts galore today. Didn't know the rest of that though. It's really starting to sound like my kind of game.

And it's got some GREAT villains. (then again... that's something that would only interest me)

The prosecutors you go up against are always pretty fun though.

I like the villains as well. Did you finish the game?

Damn I was planning on a nice Dwarven inspired society and it became this. Never give me power, I do not deserve it.

Mountain, we're going for a fully enclosed Pony society. What could possibly go wrong?

Timberwolves. As they are plant based they should be easy to care for. Plus they can be given to lonely ponies who yearn for companionship. They presumable reproduce like plants so they will rapidly increase in population. They are also somewhat related to the growing of food, so bonus food when no defence is needed yay. And if I have a surplus, free firewood.

First Mining, then Population explosion and finally Science! How long will it take for underground ponies to go insane? Does it happen to Pegasi the fastest. Will ponies go into an anarchistic mess if unsupervised. So many tests and as an Alicorn I'll last long enough to supervise them all.

At the beginning I'll divide my ponies into two groups, half are devoted to farming, half to mining out the mountain and under it. The mined out portion of the mountain will be divided into three areas, an opening area which will be the smallest and consist almost entirely of 10 gates that decrease in size the further into the area you go. With the exception of the outermost gate they will only be lockable from the outside. Then past those gates there will be a long diverging set of tunnels each will lead to the third area. There'll also be sleeping facilities and a lot of storage area.

The third area will be 100 identical habitats that are connected to the second area via the previously mentioned tunnels. The doors once again will be lockable from the outside only. I'll hope I don't strike Adamantine.

Anyway, I'll divy up the labour by having Earth Ponies doing most of the initial mining, Unicorns doing the precision stuff and Pegasi giving me highish ceiling. Outside, Pegasi will give me good weather, Earth Ponies will grow crops and tend to the Timberwolves and Unicorns will build structures for outside the mountain.

This is all going to take ages, that's okay I need a high population for later anyway. Which brings me to my next point. I need to give incentives for high family units. Not sure how yet, larger food rations perhaps. Anyway if I can get each pair to produce 10 foals, then my next generation will have 540 ponies all in all. Which is not enough. Pair them up and try to do the same and I can have 2700 ponies. Famines may occur, this is not necessarily my problem as I'll be an immortal Alicorn. Riots may occur. I'll make sure the Timberwolf handlers are well treat I'll need them to maintain order.

Anyway, once I get enough ponies, lottery time. 500 can stay outside, 400 for the second area and 6000 for the combined living spaces of the third area (60 each). Then science can occur. The outside group will be a mixture of all races. The inside will all be Unicorns. And the third will vary. Two habitats will be all Earth Pony for example. Two will be 99 Mares and One Stallion, two will be 99 Stallions and One Mare.

After these ponies have all gone to their assigned areas (force may be required for the test subjects) the science can begin. 50% of the habitats will not have food delivered to them, 50% will. The second group's job is to monitor and document the effects on the third groups while the first group produces the food necessary for the habitats. Once science has been done I have no idea.

edited 18th Jan '12 12:49:32 PM by Badwolfwho

@Ginger: If you look hard enough, you can find a ponified version of anyone who's had an official or fan-consensus picture of them drawn, ever. Science fact.

Badwolfwho, I need to know what you look like. Or what you imagine your online persona looks like, or whatever. Spike is going to beat you up.

I'd have mountains. And then I'd build a city in the mountain.

And I would have an army of dragons.

Bad: Oh, dear, you're sounding a bit like Caulder there.

All these people with morally questionable uses for ponies.