The great and wonderful Europa Universalis 3 Succession game

Hello. If you just stumbled into this thread and have no idea what it is about, i would recommend reading this thread:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=239873

I will be leading a Europa Universalis 3 Succession game, meaning each player gets to play for a limited amount of time, and then proceeds to give his safegame to the next player in line to continue playing. We will be playing EU3 DW 5.1. This is the first time i organize something like this, so please don't shout at me too much.

If you want to play, please make a post in this thread stating this. Players will play in the order in which they claim their spots. Note that you must have a working copy of EU3 DW 5.1 without any mods for this.

Chronicles of the joint rule:
1399-1420 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=284324&currentpage=2#37
1420-1441 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=284324&currentpage=3#47
1441-1452 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=284324&currentpage=5#86
1452-1472 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=284324&currentpage=5#97 , http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=284324&currentpage=6#103 , http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=284324&currentpage=6#105
1472-1492 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=284324&currentpage=7#122
1492-1512 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=284324&currentpage=8#150
1512-1532 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=284324&currentpage=8#158
1532-1553 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=284324&currentpage=8#160 , http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=284324&currentpage=9#161
(What happened inbetween? Noone knows.)
1573-1593 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=284324&currentpage=11#216

1633-1653 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=284324&currentpage=17#326
1671-1682 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=284324&currentpage=19#373

Rules:

To play, demand a spot in this thread. Players will play in order of appearance. Please make it absolutely clear that you want to play.

After one player has finished his turn by uploading the save, the next in line must claim his spot within 24 hours. New: I will send you a PM if it is your turn. If someone does not claim his spot, it is open to the first person who demands it after i make that announcement, the rest of the line will continue as planned.

He then has another 72 hours to play out his turn. New: If you are not finished with your 20 years during this time, don't worry. Just hand over as much as you have done.

Each player must give a report on what happened during his rulership time in this thread. Preferably a fun one. He also has to upload his safegame and post a link to it in this thread. Please end your report with a full picture of our total realm, so people spectating can see what is happening.

New: Don't uselessly influence the next players term, for example through declaring a World War on the last day of your term. You had your 20 years, let the next player have his without doing what you force them to for the next 10 years. Just be nice.

List of Players in order of Appearance:

Playing/finished
Simberto
nttea
Psycho_Gemni
beef42
Ramong
Silvanel
Velr
Turdburgler
Caller
fofa2000
sakhi20
Pewt
Stolat
Skilledblob

Waiting
Bourneq

Next up are some polls to determine how this will be played out. If i have a preferance, i will state it and the reasoning after the poll, but i will always go with the final result of the poll even if it is not what i would have preferred. Please only vote on these if you are going to play. The polls will be running for 48 hours (until 12.11.11, 14:00 KST), and then the game starts.

Voting is done

Apparently, we are playing a small-sized country in Europe, but outside of the HRE. Every player is playing for 20 years. The other two polls were very close, so i will try to find a compromise, and we will play on Hard Difficulty with Normal Aggression.

Poll: How long should each person play?

20 years (13)

52%

30 years (4)

16%

Until the ruler dies (4)

16%

10 years (3)

12%

40 years (1)

4%

15 years (0)

0%

25 total votes

Your vote: How long should each person play?

(Vote): 10 years
(Vote): 15 years
(Vote): 20 years
(Vote): 30 years
(Vote): 40 years
(Vote): Until the ruler dies

I personally would prefer something like 20 years. I am strongly against the ruler thing, since it can be very random where some rulers rule for 70-80 years, while others die within a month.

Poll: Size of our country?

Small (2-4) (14)

56%

Medium (8)

32%

Large (2)

8%

1 Province (1)

4%

25 total votes

Your vote: Size of our country?

(Vote): 1 Province
(Vote): Small (2-4)
(Vote): Medium
(Vote): Large

I am against playing a too strong country, because that means that the game is basically over very fast.

Poll: Where do we want to play?

Europe - outside HRE (9)

41%

Europe - inside HRE (6)

27%

New World (2)

9%

East Asia (2)

9%

Close Muslim world (Middle East, North Africa) (1)

5%

Sub-Saharan Africa (1)

5%

India (1)

5%

22 total votes

Your vote: Where do we want to play?

(Vote): Europe - inside HRE
(Vote): Europe - outside HRE
(Vote): Close Muslim world (Middle East, North Africa)
(Vote): Sub-Saharan Africa
(Vote): New World
(Vote): India
(Vote): East Asia

Please don't choose Sub-Saharan Africa or the New World, in my opinion playing tribal nations tends to be very boring for long periods of time.

Poll: Difficulty setting?

Normal (13)

46%

Very Hard (13)

46%

Hard (2)

7%

Easy (0)

0%

28 total votes

Your vote: Difficulty setting?

(Vote): Easy
(Vote): Normal
(Vote): Hard
(Vote): Very Hard

Poll: AI Aggressiveness

Low (9)

33%

Very High (9)

33%

Medium (5)

19%

High (4)

15%

27 total votes

Your vote: AI Aggressiveness

(Vote): Low
(Vote): Medium
(Vote): High
(Vote): Very High

In my opinion, Low Aggressiveness is simply the best. It makes the AI slowly produce stable empires instead of large blobs that implode to rebellions within half a century due to overextending themselves.

Caller

Poland8075 Posts

November 10 2011 05:27 GMT

i vote whatever will allow me to run the country into the ground the quickest

Simberto

Germany12088 Posts

November 10 2011 05:29 GMT

Is that a claimed spot?

nttea

Sweden4353 Posts

November 10 2011 05:51 GMT

Sure i could go for this as it stands!

allthough since no savescumming wouldn't very hard difficulty be... very hard?

Simberto

Germany12088 Posts

November 10 2011 07:13 GMT

Don't know, i myself don't find it that hard, and i generally don't reload. But i also have played quite a lot of EU3, so that might factor into that (btw i had to google savescumming). Anyways, it is not me making decisions, democracy will take all the blame.

But it would be really nice if only the people who actually play would vote. Having 5 votes, but only 3? maybe players is strange.

Capresis

United States518 Posts

November 10 2011 08:26 GMT

Sign me up! But I sincerely hope you can compensate for me, the only thing I seem to be good at in this game is giving other countries my money and land.

beef42

Denmark1037 Posts

November 10 2011 08:34 GMT

Count me in. I agree with all of OP's suggestions except playing on very hard, and that is what my vote will reflect.

Robinsa

Japan1333 Posts

November 10 2011 08:58 GMT

Ive never played in the new world so I veted for it but now that I think about it is a really bad choise cuz its going to be super slow. :D

Maybe the middle east would be fun ? I always play in Europe so Id prefer somewhere else. As for country, a small to medium sized one would be good I think. Hard is proboably best for this kind of game. Im kinda low on time for a while so dont sign me up yet. Ill be back if I find that I have time.

Euronyme

Sweden3804 Posts

November 10 2011 09:04 GMT

Oh this would be awesome. Sadly my game folder is all kinds of fucked up due to me trying to change some game mechanics (Vive la revolution!). I'd assume this would corrupt the save file for everyone else (?)

I'll try to switch it back to original and I'll be able to jump in

Awesome initiative. It's such a great game.

Simberto

Germany12088 Posts

November 10 2011 10:05 GMT

#10

As an afterthought, you are probably right that Very Hard is not the best for such a game.

Ramong

Denmark1706 Posts

November 10 2011 11:11 GMT

#11

Would be awesome, I am up for it !
Yeah, Hard or normal are properly best :p

Gogo Poland

Skilledblob

Germany3392 Posts

November 10 2011 11:15 GMT

#12

Mongol Khanate gogo

Silvanel

Poland4769 Posts

November 10 2011 11:37 GMT

#13

I would like to play. 30 Years would be much better than 20 in my opinion.

Velr

Switzerland10991 Posts

November 10 2011 11:53 GMT

#14

sign me in.

Go for Golden Horde :D (and let someone with a clue play the first 20/40 years.. unlike me ^^).

Simberto

Germany12088 Posts

November 10 2011 12:31 GMT

#15

In my opinion, hordes are not really interesting. You miss out on half the game by having no diplomacy, not even the decision when to go to war.

Yuljan

2196 Posts

November 10 2011 12:36 GMT

#16

I would play just need an interesting country. On a side note I think south east asia and India would probably be the most fun. Europe will get boring for the later players.

Simberto

Germany12088 Posts

November 10 2011 12:47 GMT

#17

Oh, i noticed that there is a very easy setting in the game which i forgot in the poll, but since there is not even interest in easy difficulty i hope noone is sad about this.

turdburgler

England6749 Posts

November 10 2011 13:51 GMT

#18

every winning poll i find agreeable enough.so im interested

you should probably put down some ground rules about infamy and war exhaustion : D no one wants the first 5 years of their turn to be a watch the clock game due to rebels everywhere

Candadar

2049 Posts

November 10 2011 14:27 GMT

#19

I'm all for keeping it easy so we don't die in five years since we will have plenty of new players, but Low Aggression is just stupid. It's like playing BGH no aggression 20 minutes. It's stupid. Put it on Easy and then High Aggression.

scFoX

France454 Posts

November 10 2011 14:58 GMT

#20

Interesting idea.

Sadly, I can't play due to the amount of work I have currently, but I definitely will be watching how it pans out.