I only now read what you wrote in the previous rpanons post and I like your ideas and general take on things :).
I hesitate to comment of the setting, because I don't know how much emphasis you want to place on it or how much you want it to sound real or logical, so to speak. Anyway, a few things came to mind.
Whenever possible, capital cities tend to be on the coast. If not, there's often a river to connect them to a (large) harbour town. This is natural considering trade with other countries. Your kingdom is bordered with mountains, dense forests and a desert; it is a rare merchant who doesn't arrive aboard a ship. A coastal town would be the hub of commerce and it can even be larger than the capital city.
That said, yours is a fantasy game and you don't need to stick with what is common in our RL. I just thought you might want to think about why your capital is in the middle of the kingdom.
One reason could be that it is an important religious place. Maybe an early settler had a revelation there? Maybe there is an unusual land formation that is believed to be the home of one of the gods?
You could also have the harbour town competing for dominance with the capital city. Things like that.
Pacing I really like what the other anon suggested: "for instance, where 1 OOC month equals 7 IC days, and new threads can be set at any point during those 7 days."
I was in a game that had a similar pacing and it worked really well. If the game is fairly small and there aren't dozens of posts a day - and if players are asked to date their posts - it's easy enough to keep track of what happens and when. One of the mods could even maintain a post where all the threads are listed in chronological order.
AC and rewarding system I noticed some people being worried that their wish to backtag for several months would not be noted. I think that anyone who finishes a thread in some fashion (be it just an OOC note to handwave the ending) could be rewarded no matter how old the thread is. There shouldn't be a need to finish a thread in any given month as long as there's enough activity to pass AC.
AU/OCs I really hope this game allows OCs, not just canon AUs.
Re: Fantasy AU Game
I hesitate to comment of the setting, because I don't know how much emphasis you want to place on it or how much you want it to sound real or logical, so to speak. Anyway, a few things came to mind.
Whenever possible, capital cities tend to be on the coast. If not, there's often a river to connect them to a (large) harbour town. This is natural considering trade with other countries. Your kingdom is bordered with mountains, dense forests and a desert; it is a rare merchant who doesn't arrive aboard a ship. A coastal town would be the hub of commerce and it can even be larger than the capital city.
That said, yours is a fantasy game and you don't need to stick with what is common in our RL. I just thought you might want to think about why your capital is in the middle of the kingdom.
One reason could be that it is an important religious place. Maybe an early settler had a revelation there? Maybe there is an unusual land formation that is believed to be the home of one of the gods?
You could also have the harbour town competing for dominance with the capital city. Things like that.
Pacing
I really like what the other anon suggested: "for instance, where 1 OOC month equals 7 IC days, and new threads can be set at any point during those 7 days."
I was in a game that had a similar pacing and it worked really well. If the game is fairly small and there aren't dozens of posts a day - and if players are asked to date their posts - it's easy enough to keep track of what happens and when. One of the mods could even maintain a post where all the threads are listed in chronological order.
AC and rewarding system
I noticed some people being worried that their wish to backtag for several months would not be noted. I think that anyone who finishes a thread in some fashion (be it just an OOC note to handwave the ending) could be rewarded no matter how old the thread is. There shouldn't be a need to finish a thread in any given month as long as there's enough activity to pass AC.
AU/OCs
I really hope this game allows OCs, not just canon AUs.