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[PhantomSpaceMan]

Aussie Girls ain't British mate...
Plus we don't need to fake a Tan, you go outside for 10mins and you get one like that...

Ethnically British I mean. Which in 1934 Australia was the dominant ethnic background prior to widespread non-white immigration to Australia after the end of it's White Australia policy.

This is intensely irrelevant however as we don't have enough people to activate either country. So we have to choose someplace smaller.

[Paul]

It's 70% or more than 50, so the larger countries take 50 (or 51?). We would have never activated as Great Britain if it was just 70%, Great Britain has like 800-900 provinces in the game, good luck activating that without the more than 50 rule (I doubt even the Goons could get 600 players together for a game, lol).

Most countries are big enough to require 50 players.

This page has me wondering. It says there are two kinds of activation, activation to register and activation to diplomacy.

It states that European countries are active to register at the start, and other countries activate after 70% of provinces are taken. This seems to be saying that countries outside of Europe can't be chosen until the European countries (including the behemoth colonial powers of France and Britain I assume) are 70% full, which would probably be well over a thousand players. Has the game had that big of a following, or did they just activate all the other countries anyway? Will the new map start with all the countries registerable?

-edit- Heh, have you guys looked at China lately? They're either in the middle of a crazy civil war, or are doing the secede and conquer neighboring provinces thing.

[PhantomSpaceMan]

It's 70% or more than 50, so the larger countries take 50 (or 51?). We would have never activated as Great Britain if it was just 70%, Great Britain has like 800-900 provinces in the game, good luck activating that without the more than 50 rule (I doubt even the Goons could get 600 players together for a game, lol).

Most countries are big enough to require 50 players.

This page has me wondering. It says there are two kinds of activation, activation to register and activation to diplomacy.

It states that European countries are active to register at the start, and other countries activate after 70% of provinces are taken. This seems to be saying that countries outside of Europe can't be chosen until the European countries (including the behemoth colonial powers of France and Britain I assume) are 70% full, which would probably be well over a thousand players. Has the game had that big of a following, or did they just activate all the other countries anyway? Will the new map start with all the countries registerable?

-edit- Heh, have you guys looked at China lately? They're either in the middle of a crazy civil war, or are doing the secede and conquer neighboring provinces thing.

Isn't the Paradox forum involved with China? It seems rather odd, especially considering that so many provinces seceded at once.

[Paul]

Isn't the Paradox forum involved with China? It seems rather odd, especially considering that so many provinces seceded at once.

They're most likely just seceding to take over neighboring empty provinces, that way everyone can get 3 provinces each and work to connect their distant provinces.


Nepal would be a funny one to conquer the world with. It has FOUR provinces. Only problem is you'd be stuck with only four players until either Tibet or Great Britain activated. Tibet could be interesting, but it has 69 provinces so would still take 49 players to activate. Lots of mountain and jungle, though.

[PhantomSpaceMan]

It's 70% or more than 50, so the larger countries take 50 (or 51?). We would have never activated as Great Britain if it was just 70%, Great Britain has like 800-900 provinces in the game, good luck activating that without the more than 50 rule (I doubt even the Goons could get 600 players together for a game, lol).

Most countries are big enough to require 50 players.

This page has me wondering. It says there are two kinds of activation, activation to register and activation to diplomacy.

It states that European countries are active to register at the start, and other countries activate after 70% of provinces are taken. This seems to be saying that countries outside of Europe can't be chosen until the European countries (including the behemoth colonial powers of France and Britain I assume) are 70% full, which would probably be well over a thousand players. Has the game had that big of a following, or did they just activate all the other countries anyway? Will the new map start with all the countries registerable?

-edit- Heh, have you guys looked at China lately? They're either in the middle of a crazy civil war, or are doing the secede and conquer neighboring provinces thing.

I didn't know that countries that had under 70% or 50 players would never activate. This leaves Europe as the only relevant place on the map, as it was the only place outside China that had enough people joining.

[Paul]

I didn't know that countries that had under 70% or 50 players would never activate. This leaves Europe as the only relevant place on the map, as it was the only place outside China that had enough people joining.

I don't think that's what it means. To be honest I'm not sure what it means, heh. My reading it makes it sound like this:


Europe countries can be joined at the start, and diplomatically activate after they get either 50 players or 70% of their provinces if they are small. Other countries cannot be joined until the game has 70% of the slots full in the European countries, at which point they begin entering the registration pool in an unspecified order.


But the current state of the game has all the tiny little countries activated, even the one with only 4 provinces total, and none of the European powers have even close to 70% of their total provinces filled - so that interpretation is obviously wrong. Maybe it means 70% of the European provinces, not counting their colonial holdings? I'm really not sure. A lot of the wiki seems a bit confusing, I expect it may be because it was written in another language (I assume Polish) and translated to English.

[Android]

United States got enough people activate diplomatically, but its still like 2 weeks left on that. Regardless, most of us are gonna switch over to the new server (hopefully it allows for registration of the USA right away). You guys are welcome to cross the pond to join us, we got lots of jungle in our lower half.

[Sheb]

Damn, I don't want to loose all my development.

[Lightning4]

Aw. So much for my development in Tucson.
I guess I'll rejoin once USA is available again. I will make my home province great again!

Too bad it's in the middle of nowhere. Though I should note that most of the provinces in SW US have a bit of everything. Tons of mountains for concrete, some patches of forest for wood, and even some jungle.

[Paul]

In the US the west coast is seemingly the best starting area for the tons of mountains and jungles and forests, although playing as US would mean people would get very very separated. Trying to connect west coast to east coast on a railway would require a huge effort - either a whole lot of players, or seceding and carving a new country out of the US and controlling the string of captured provinces just long enough to put down the railway. Plus you're so far from any action unless people decide to play as Mexico and Canada and war with us or something.

We don't necessarily have to start on the new server from the news though, it says the old one will still be kept. Seems like kinda a weird thing to start a new server when the current one is hardly full though. Maybe they'll let people play both simultaneously? Otherwise it'd seem kinda dumb to split the userbase like that.

If we did restart on the new server elsewhere I'd rather be somewhere like Turkey though, lots of jungle and mountains and forests in almost every province and it's right near countries that will likely be active like Greece and Poland and Germany. And most of the provinces are on the Asia side separated by just enough water that if things went bad for us in Europe they'd have to have ships or planes to move ground forces across.

[Android]

Aw. So much for my development in Tucson.
I guess I'll rejoin once USA is available again. I will make my home province great again!

Too bad it's in the middle of nowhere. Though I should note that most of the provinces in SW US have a bit of everything. Tons of mountains for concrete, some patches of forest for wood, and even some jungle.

too bad its so far from Europe, come East Coast, mountains/hills are overrated anyway (like really, you dont need them)

[Paul]

Aw. So much for my development in Tucson.
I guess I'll rejoin once USA is available again. I will make my home province great again!

Too bad it's in the middle of nowhere. Though I should note that most of the provinces in SW US have a bit of everything. Tons of mountains for concrete, some patches of forest for wood, and even some jungle.

too bad its so far from Europe, come East Coast, mountains/hills are overrated anyway (like really, you dont need them)

You don't need them, but the 30% bonus cement production sure is nice. Lets you grow more quickly early on and eventually devote less of your work force to cement production.

[PhantomSpaceMan]

In the US the west coast is seemingly the best starting area for the tons of mountains and jungles and forests, although playing as US would mean people would get very very separated. Trying to connect west coast to east coast on a railway would require a huge effort - either a whole lot of players, or seceding and carving a new country out of the US and controlling the string of captured provinces just long enough to put down the railway. Plus you're so far from any action unless people decide to play as Mexico and Canada and war with us or something.

We don't necessarily have to start on the new server from the news though, it says the old one will still be kept. Seems like kinda a weird thing to start a new server when the current one is hardly full though. Maybe they'll let people play both simultaneously? Otherwise it'd seem kinda dumb to split the userbase like that.

If we did restart on the new server elsewhere I'd rather be somewhere like Turkey though, lots of jungle and mountains and forests in almost every province and it's right near countries that will likely be active like Greece and Poland and Germany. And most of the provinces are on the Asia side separated by just enough water that if things went bad for us in Europe they'd have to have ships or planes to move ground forces across.

I'm quoting this for emphasis, USA is too isolated and Turkey is just as defensible as Great Britain but with mountains and jungle. With there being two maps their won't be nearly as many people on either server.   

[Rilder]

Well if its gonna restart. Lets make a grab for a different nation, Briton is hard to develop due to lack of Jungles...
Thats if its still the same like that...

Well they aren't restarting, it sounds like they are just adding a second server for people to play on.

We don't -have- to move to the second server.  Although if we do I second Turkey, REBUILD THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE DWARFSTYLE.

[JimiD]

I am not sure I want to spend another month building up and waiting for activation.  We are a couple of days away from being active, and in a position to reclaim the inactive provinces.  We could gang these over to anyone who wants to be in the British Isles, or use them as second provinces.  As much ad I would love a second province, I would rather there were more active players.

I think a second server may just dilute the player base.