A 1933 start date?

[CraniumMuppet]

This answer from Archangel is probably as good as any
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...tart-game-scenario-1929.1529141/post-28313364

Personally I think that an earlier start date would be an herculean task with significant risk and dubious outcome.

It's not an add on, you would have to bolt on a new game entirely. Everything would have to be redone

 

[CraniumMuppet]

Ok, thank you for explaining. Now I understand that it is a much much bigger task than I originally imagined. It would be better to spend the time and recourses on the game that already exists.

No worries.

Just adding 3 years would be maybe...a bare minimum 700 focuses covering every focus tree (assuming half is 70d and half is 35 days). Alt history paths included in this could make it anywhere between 2x to 4x as much.

Then there would have to be new portraits, oob, research and rebalancing to make sure the 36 still occurs as 36. Then you'd have to figure out how the 33 start would impacts the alt history paths in 36, how it would impact the historical paths in 36 etc.

You would have to set up the 36 start to have all things completed, but then the 36 start gets into the same issue as the 39 start, so it just shuffles the issue back.
Not only that but for every subsequent expansion you would run into the same issue, and even if you would do it as a last expansion im not sure people would be super happy if we spend 2-3 years doing that and it ended up costing 40-60 dollars because it has cost so much to produce.

Im not sure the content designers or QA testers would be quite sane after that either ^^

Not to say that the time period is bad, but its hard to add post-release, especially post release +6-7 years into the lifetime of a product