Greetings All and Extreme Apologies for the lack of posting - Your efforts and capacity for self-organisation must be commended!
I've unfortunately had a huge amount of stuff to do over the past month, and am likely to continue to do so for the next few months (PhDs and associated activities have a tendency to creep up and take over your life, you know...). And so, as you've probably guessed, there's absolutely no time at my end for either posting or modding.
The council idea is brilliant - Syndicalism in Action! As well as Evans' ideas, what I'd also suggest for a next version would be:
* Integrate everything posted in between the last version and now into the game (as well as new stuff from last version of 'All the Russias').
* Write descriptions for existing events currently lacking them (eg. Balkan and Ausgleich ones)
* Go through the 'Files to be looked at' folder in the download, and integrate stuff in from there into the game files.
* Add some potential major war event-chains. Don't worry about these treading on any future plans -> Any events completed at this stage are good, and can always be made offset based at some point in the future to be less deterministic.
These shouldn't be too tricky to do, and could be a good way for people to start to learn to mod the game....
Also, before I went away, I put together the Papal Conclave events, with a potential for Austrian interference, which you can find here:
http://www.filelodge.com/files/1673/PAPACY.txt
These all fire and work, but currently also lack descriptions (I can't remember if I had the Papal ministers in 0.3...? If not, these are done too).
The subforum would be a very good idea if this thing is turning into a more collaborative effort (
- I think I better sign the petition...) -> I wouldn't hold my breath about getting one here though, as I asked twice before (when activity here was much more intense!), but with no results (also see the current status of MDS, which has been going for longer, and still no subforum...).
And to make amends for my disappearence, I'll also host the 'Syndicalist atmosphere pack' that I put together a
long long time ago on Rapidshare some time today, so stay tuned for this. And today I'll also take time out of my furious writing schedule to be available to answer any immediate questions on the above, or organisation (
- and receive abuse for my abandonment!)