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Voting closed: February 01, 2012, 06:12:51 am

[Heron TSG]

Ooh, an update! Good progress it seems. Perhaps one day Pope Barbarossa will see the Republic become fully secular and democratic.

[SethCreiyd]

So, one of the drives in my laptop's raid setup failed during write and the volume was corrupted.  Windows won't boot and I've been stuck for the past few days fixing it up.

The good news is it's almost certainly not malware, the bad news is I think I need a new hard drive, but I've been able to recover a lot of data from the good drive and I'm going to try to retrieve the LP folder tonight.  I should be able to patch up any corruption with the uploaded mod and continue this, but I'll be busy for a little while.

[Delta Foxtrot]

Prepare the incense and the holy litanies. Hope it all works out.

[SethCreiyd]

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All but one of the save files (an early one) were salvageable.  This is good since any junk data in the most recent save can probably get spliced with an earlier healthy save in case of corruption.  Once I reinstall v2 I should better know how to proceed.

Unfortunately all the pictures for the last turn were lost, which means I can either replay the turn or just skip a few years in the LP narrative.  Not sure which would be better.

[Delta Foxtrot]

Replay if it doesn't feel like a chore. Personally I think we could skip the few years if nothing of substance happened during that time.

[EuchreJack]

I'd suggest briefly summarizing the years in which pictures are missing.

Hm, your computer fails after making a heretic into the Pope.  Could this be a sign? 

All joking aside, sorry about your computer, and I'm glad most of your saves are ok.  On the bright side, you got your mod online before the crash, so at least it's safe.

[SethCreiyd]

Thanks   The sentiment is appreciated.  The computers up and running again and all the important stuff is okay, so if this was a divine omen it was a rather merciful one.

I'm awaiting a response from Steam since thanks to Steam Guard and my old email being gone, I haven't been able to get back v2 yet, but I've started writing that summary, the most significant event of the turn being...

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Rome pwnz Spain

Update; we are experiencing techincal difficulties.  My apologies everyone, I will likely resume this abruptly at a later date, though all the same I hope you've enjoyed Rome's rise to power so far.

[EuchreJack]

From what I can tell, we've probably reached a point at which victory can be proclaimed, if you wish.  Although much work needs to be done in order to achieve world dominance, I doubt the AI can stop you now.

[chronicfc]

I need this mod so much.

Soon, my precious San Marino, soon.

And when I finally do have my precious, I will banish the old flag of San Marino for the fancy blue and white number they wave at present day.

[EuchreJack]

We'd love to hear how that goes for you.  Since I just bought Victoria 2, I'd love to hear how others achieve world dominance.  It would certainly help my getting into the game.

[SethCreiyd]

This version should still work for vanilla Victoria 2.  I'd thought interest had waned in the mod, no one seemed to have mentioned downloading it, and I never did finish the conversion to A House Divided or upload it to Paradox, but that can probably be prioritized that if desired, since there's only a bit more work to get it running.

I couldn't figure out how to fix the save to run with the current mod build, or I'd have continued this through to the Roman Empire.  The Republic wouldn't have lasted long, you see. 

[chronicfc]

This version should still work for vanilla Victoria 2.  I'd thought interest had waned in the mod, no one seemed to have mentioned downloading it, and I never did finish the conversion to A House Divided or upload it to Paradox, but that can probably be prioritized that if desired, since there's only a bit more work to get it running.

I couldn't figure out how to fix the save to run with the current mod build, or I'd have continued this through to the Roman Empire.  The Republic wouldn't have lasted long, you see. 

Thank you, oh glorious leader. Is there anyway to back date my Victoria 2 AHD to just Vic 2 Vanilla?

[SethCreiyd]

You could copy the AHD folder to a new directory and reinstall vanilla V2, but that would cost an extra gigabyte.  Once I post the AHD friendly release to Paradox I'll put a link here.

[chronicfc]

Is there anything you specifically need to do that I could help with. I'm not exactly a technical wizard, but I do have a lot of time on my hands, because of study leave and whatnot

[SethCreiyd]

I appreciate the offer, but I'm unsure of what could be outsourced.  I've got to:

- Rename some Mongolian provinces and Chinese substates (Manchuria -> Jilin, etc.)
- Include the Taiping Rebellion
- Reform starting techs, thanks to the bizarre choice to uniformly strip 'primitive' nations of any kind of advancement

In unmodded AHD, every nation that isn't Westernized starts with NO technology, which I think an absurd balance decision that's bad for historicity.  It's ludicrous and denigrating to the non-Western states, even moreso than vanilla V2's marginalization - does Paradox think Egypt and the Zulu were on equal terms militarily and technologically in 1836?  Or that the ENTIRETY of non-Western nations were all equally backward to the point where they lacked access to Flintlock rifles and water wheels?  It's kind of a huge gripe for me and it reeks of laziness.  Still a great game that I adore, but IMO they dropped the ball hard on this one.