As you can see from the first post, this game is now limited to 20 players, since there's going to be enough logistical nightmare as it is.
Rakonas, sorry, but the Papal State is going to cramp out Naples and Milan too much. You may play it if you wish but nobody is going to stop either of them eating you within the first few years.
I would advise you to pick a Russian nation since its pretty empty up there (Novgorod, Muscowy, Ryazan, Tver, or the Golden Horde).
Alternatively you can play as our ringer which we still need, in which case you would be playing whatever major nation needs filling (England France Castille Austria etc etc). If all the major nations are filled you can choose to play either an absent person's minor nation for that session, or an AI nation. However you would need to play any missing majors first and foremost.
Since nobody wants to help me iron my hosting issues out, I'm looking for a host.
You will be in charge of hosting the server (you may need to do some port forwarding) and uploading the saves between rehosts. Its preferred that you are a dedicated player too so we don't have to change around when you aren't here.
I'll still be doing most of the other admin stuff, such as there is.
We'll need to check that people can join your server today or tomorrow.
As a reminder, play is starting on SUNDAY and 3:30PM. This means you should be in chat and ready AT THIS TIME. If there's one or two minors missing when everyone else is ready, WE WILL BE PLAYING WITHOUT YOU.
Settings will be:
Difficulty Normal
Spread of land/sea provinces: Normal(50 years)
No lucky nations
No historical anything.
Everything else normal.