The Story
I'm caught between having 2 different settings and stories, and would like opinions for each one.
1. Right before, and going into World War 1, with Europe constantly expanding into the interior and along the coast of Africa, a certain group of settlers come across a small island in the eastern region. what the explorers discovered was a unique group of people that had exceptional abilities. When they questioned the natives about how they got there gifts, they said it was all the local plants, which were undocumented and grew no where else in the world. The explorers decided to colonize this small island and build a new nation. The nation was founded on the ideals of unlimited colonization of the set of islands around that contained different plants to allow different powers, the study, use and advancement of these plants to give even greater power to the modern man.
2. During the early 1900's man breached the final continent, the South Pole. Although it was not widely known to the rest of the world, brave entrepreneurs and explorers began to settle and build a city within the walls of ice. The city was more or less unknown to the world, which meant that the people there were free to experiment and create with no true government around. During the 1940's however, it was a secret that fascist leaders came to discover this city which choose to not have contact with the outside world. Instead of conquering the city by force, since the cities defenses were far beyond that of the time, they took over through the cities own government and twisted it to make inventions of war against the ally powers. This created a divide in the city between those who followed this radical fascist ideals, and wanted to continue to create science unabated, and those who believed this was against the reason the city was founded and kept secret.
Ideas
If you haven't figured in, this is very Bioshocky, and as such the powers would work very similar. I want to know which of the two do you think would be a better setting for us to experience.
The similarities between the two would be that you would have to buy everything. Both stories have a strong capitalist backgrounds. As a player you would be some kind of person, from a soldier, to a scientist, to a politician, you have some kind of job and reason you are here in this world.
Each setting would have it's own separate factions you can join, and as such I will allow the RP to go based on the strength of the different factions, and who is doing more. I wont truly begin writing the story until it's decided what setting to go with.
However I am open to any and all ideas, how you think I should change things, or what I should add in to make this a better RP.