Time scale: 1821 to 1935?

[King]

it'll end in 1913 then release a ww1 expansion pack. you should know this trend by now

Yes the Hearts of Iron 3 converter will simply ignore your 1913 saved game and simply create a game that looks just like the 1936 start in Hearts of Iron 3. We think this will be easy to code and be historical as well.

 

[King]

Why is that Paradox continually insists on leaving leaving the years between 1821-1835 unmodeled? I'm not trying to sound whiny, it's just weird.

Well from our point of view we already have beautifully researched data from Victoria for 1835. Which we do not have for 1821. If we were to start from 1821 say then we would need to have some time assigned over to this research task. I know you are going to say what about Betas, but Betas are volunteers you can rely on them to do things for you but nothing specific. So we would need to budget in house time on this task to make sure we got the research done. Thus starting from 1835 frees time up for game features, events and things like this.

 

[King]

Does this also mean that the new EUIII expansion pack won't extend the time frame forward to 1835? Because honestly, I think that would be a better fit. EUIII gives you all the Napoleonic troop types and national ideas like Foraging and the revolutionary government types, but with only a few years left to use them in, it hardly seems worth it sometimes. Adding an extra 15 years of play at the end of the game would let you feel free to try and emulate Napoloeon and go for WC... And the EU engine needs less in the way of specific demographic and economic data than Victoria would.

No it does not rule anything out on other projects. I am refering specifically to Victoria 2 and giving you a one of the reasons (and a quite important one at that) as to why 1835 was picked.

 

[King]

They'll just have to wait for the XP

Don't post things like that first. Let's go through the plan of action here

1) Make Victoria II
2) ????
3) Profit

Ok that's a joke, seriously

1) We make Victoria II
2) Let's just see how well it does
3) Then depending on demand we may choose to make an expansion pack.