!!!SEPARATE PLAYER LISTS AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE WITH HEIR TO THE THRONE AND WITHOUT!!! SPECIFY WHAT VERSION YOU PLAY DURING SIGNUP!
Here's an idea for a forum game of Europa Universalis 3 that popped up in one of the threads. In order to partake you need the latest version 3.2 of EU3 Complete (vanilla + Napoleons Ambitions and In Nomine expansions). Participants will take turns playing our save game each playing a 30 year period as a different nation. (the save files are in the \europa universalis iii - complete\save games folder with the extension .eu3). In the end we will see what will become of our own Boatmurdered version of history.
Here is a basic sketch of some of the rules I think might be useful to keep our game interesting. Feel free to suggest something here if you think it's needed:
1. We play in 30 year intervals. Each turn ends with the January 1 1xx0 autosave. Once your turn is done you upload the save and pass it on to the next player on the list.
2. At the start of your turn you get to choose which nation you will play for the full 30 year period. Once a nation has been chosen by one player it cannot be chosen again in another period. (this is to prevent creating one superpower that everyone wants to play and that turns this into a succession game). During signups you can reserve one nation that you think you might want to play during your turn. Other players cannot choose nations that have been reserved. You do not have to choose the nation you reserved, if you choose a different one then your reservation can be later chosen by someone else. (Obviously, there is no guarantee that any particular nation will be around during the time period you come to play in)
3. So far I think all nations are fair pick, I've set up a poll to see what you guys have to say about it. If you decide we should only play medium and minor powers or that you REALLY don't want someone screwing over Europe as Ottomans in 30 years then okay.
4. Obviously, no cheats allowed.
5.Once they've posted the save for the next person to get digging it would be nice if each person would write up even the smallest ARR(after-action-report) of their turn, at least to tell us what they were up to and what went down on the global scene. In the end, a compilation of these AARs might end up to be an interesting read.
6.I don't want to add a "no scumming" rule, so I won't. Instead, let it read "no lagging". It's okay if you reload when you feel you screwed yourself over, but we can't have every players turn taking a month of real time or people will lose interest, so
no perfectionism. Take a minor failure if it comes to you, reload if you feel you have to but, most of all, try to finish your turn within the week or two.(This what I'm afraid of is most likely to kill this game - a delay spiral)
7. We need a rule for when someone is unable to play their turn. I don't want the tables to drop as then someone might find himself playing a completely different period than the one he was expecting, so when someone drops out from the list his place can be filled in by anyone. What this means is that when someone drops out then someone else will get to play two turns, just as long as each turn will be with a different nation.
8. One last important rule that might help prevent unnecessary drama.
Don't be a dick. When you start your turn right after someone don't just choose a neighboring superpower make it your personal mission to tear down all that he managed to achieve.(unless, of course he first agrees that you do it, or dares you to try
)
So far i think we we'll be playing with all gameplay option set to NORMAL and with Lucky nations set to HISTORICAL(he he, lets see how far that can go
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If you want in on this(utter eu3 newbies are welcome, after all I am one
), please post the date you want to play and your reserved nation(if you want one bad).
Date: Player Name: Reserved Nation: Status:
1399-1429: Hyo
Ming Done:
Save,
World, No AAR
1430-1459: Toady Two
Poland Done:
AAR Save,
World1460-1489: Muz
Brunei Done:
AAR,
Save,
World1490-1519: Hyo
Portugal Done:
AAR,
Save,
World1520-1549: Toady Two
Iraq Done:
Save,
World No AAR
1550-1579: inteuniso
Netherlands Done:
AAR,
Save,
World1580-1609:
1610-1639:
1640-1669:
1670-1699:
1700-1729:
1730-1759:
1760-1789:
1790-1820:
Date: Player Name: Reserved Nation: Status:
1399-1429: mainiac
Byzantium Done:
AAR,
Save,
World1430-1459: The Transcendent Tyrant
The Golden Horde Done:
AAR,
Save,
World 1460-1489: Intelligent Shade of Blue
England Done:
AAR,
Save,
World1490-1519: Farseer
Muscovy Done:
AAR,
Save ,
World1520-1549: Intelligent Shade of Blue
1550-1579: Autarch
1580-1609:
1610-1639:
1640-1669:
1670-1699:
1700-1729:
1730-1759:
1760-1789:
1790-1820:
Poll
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