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Why do say you "brought to you by the most steadily unpopular AAR writer around, Brandenburg III!" You helped me out...three cheers for you! At least you have me as a fan.
Range said:
That’s a little of my glancing humor.
My AARs are vastly unpopular (with the exception of this one) in comparison to other writers with at least one other AAR under their belt. If you look at views and replies in comparison with others, the stuff I put out there isn’t nearly as popular with the exception of this brief AAR.
Prawnstar's conquests have pretty much ruined non-mmp AARs for me (except the current ashanti one). MMP AARs tend to be interesting, otoh.
Ireland in MMP is real hard, too.
Ireland in MMP is real hard, too.
ubik said:
Well, the only EU3 AAR without mods that I created was my recent Algiers project which has just finished.
Yaroslavl - MM 4
Japan - MM 4
Algiers narrative - MM4
Algiers: PictAARs - Vanilla
United States of America - American Enhancement Mod 1.2
Ireland - MMP 1.4
Future Algiers project - based on the Algiers MM4 game.
Vanilla games get too blobby for me to repeatedly play. They’re not much fun when they go beyond a certain point.
So I did play with mods and MM, but I didn't shamelessly advertise. The reason I did with Ireland was because I was curious if there'd be a change in views and comments.
Edit: I think this goes to show that probable AAR readers glance at a title rather than open the link to read the content.
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People usually tend to read AARs to learn and improve their own gaming, or simply for the fun of it. 
The harder the game is, the greater the ambitions, the more lucrative the AAR becomes.
And if the tittle promises 'death or glory' and the game is 'extremely' challenging in the beginning, the more readers receives.
-Yaroslavl is not that hard to play, nor are the neighbours that bloodthirsty
-Algiers has several provinces and can expand with mediocore ease
-Irish minor, yeah! There is a English neighbour who can conquer with an tremendous swiftness and you start with one province that is not really rich. That's a challenge.
The harder the game is, the greater the ambitions, the more lucrative the AAR becomes.
And if the tittle promises 'death or glory' and the game is 'extremely' challenging in the beginning, the more readers receives.
-Yaroslavl is not that hard to play, nor are the neighbours that bloodthirsty
-Algiers has several provinces and can expand with mediocore ease
-Irish minor, yeah! There is a English neighbour who can conquer with an tremendous swiftness and you start with one province that is not really rich. That's a challenge.
I agree with Enewald, the Irishness/underdog factor of the AAR probably attracted as many people as the platinum.
That’s beside the point. My point was that the other AARs weren’t as popular as this one. ubik mentioned they would have been if they were played with the MM mod. I pointed out that almost every AAR I made was created with a mod and the only real difference between them and the Ireland project was that I put MM in the title for Ireland. In return, its now argued that the Irish nation was half of the views and the MM mod the other half. But if we use that logic, the other projects should’ve received at least half of the attention the Ireland AAR had because I used MM in those other AARs.
This discussion is really much ado about nothing if one compares the results of this AAR (which amounted 16k posts in about 40 days) to some of my other AARs (a number which none of them reached excepting the recent Algiers AAR.)
The result is that people look at titles before they look into the content of the AAR. If it has a mod labeled in its title, its going to gather more attention. This isn’t a bad thing but it is a fact.
This discussion is really much ado about nothing if one compares the results of this AAR (which amounted 16k posts in about 40 days) to some of my other AARs (a number which none of them reached excepting the recent Algiers AAR.)
The result is that people look at titles before they look into the content of the AAR. If it has a mod labeled in its title, its going to gather more attention. This isn’t a bad thing but it is a fact.
MMP = hard.
And another true fact is that I was not reading your other AARs.o
That's why this one got more posts.
And another true fact is that I was not reading your other AARs.
oThat's why this one got more posts.
I only started reading this one due to the MMP in the title. I was looking for MM AAR since I like to read about the goings on in there ever if I don't play it. Still, I read the whole thing because of the good wirting, if it was bad I wouldn't have
I also didn't have/know of eu3 when you did your other AARs, and so never read them. I'm finding the Japan AAR entertaining tho.
I read both of them as he wrote them, and didn't much care for the Yaroslavl one. The Japan one was nice simply because he never westernized.
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