Converting Savegames from EU3 / to Hoi3

[Buddy3101]

I have read in the Forum you'll be able to convert your save games to Hoi3...

Its really cool that PI take this feature to their new games again.

But my question is:

Will you be able to convert your EU3 Savefiles to Vic2 too?
Wouldnt it be cool you start a new EU3 game, save it to Vic2 and finaly fight WW2 with your converted endgame file from Vic2

Leading your countries from ~ 1400 - 1950

 

[Taylor]

I have read in the Forum you'll be able to convert your save games to Hoi3...

Its really cool that PI take this feature to their new games again.

But my question is:

Will you be able to convert your EU3 Savefiles to Vic2 too?
Wouldnt it be cool you start a new EU3 game, save it to Vic2 and finaly fight WW2 with your converted endgame file from Vic2

Leading your countries from ~ 1400 - 1950

Maybe in the new expansion for EU3?

 

[Buddy3101]

Maybe,
but why it couldn't be realised with Vic 2? Normally Vic2 could convert the EU3 Savegame to Vic2 Savegame, both games are using the same Engine

 

[Mediator]

and finaly fight WW2 with your converted endgame file from Vic2

If you don't limit yourself during EU§ and Vicky2, you probably could only fight with yourself. The idea sounds nice, the reality is very likely boring.

 

[Buddy3101]

If you don't limit yourself during EU§ and Vicky2, you probably could only fight with yourself. The idea sounds nice, the reality is very likely boring.

That is right, but most time i am plying PI Strategy games I give me my own goals. For example I play with Prussia in EU3. My goals for EU3 is to get the most land Prussia owned and some colonies in Africa. Than in Vic2 I have to unite germany, to get some more colonies to become a major power for Hoi3.

You can try to play the game on a difficulter level too. Than it isnt as easy to own all Countries at the end of the game.

I think the Possibility to have a Choice to convert your games from EU2 via Vic2 to Hoi3 would be great to get a new kind of Experience.

 

[unmerged(91061)]

It would be a great expansion pack feature imo. However, as I found converting my Ricky to Doomsday, it's something that needs to have a fair bit of time spent on it to be worth having. There would have to be well defined territory correllations (so as not to say, have a nice contiguous Franco-German border with trenches, only to have the converter make the new border jagged and half the trenches gone or in the other country), though this shouldn't be as much a problem with the using of the same engine.
Also, politics and events would have to trandfer over well, I had a native american nation pop up as "fascist" in HoI2 and Germany, which was a democracy at the end of Ricky, a Paternal Autocrat in HoI2 with no justification. Working around this would require a fair it of effort in political trandfers etc. and also more importantly in Vicky2 endgame events that set the scene for WW2. There should be a number of events that break up large empires and revolts that impose Autocratic regimes at the end of Vicky2, and not necessarily in historical ways either.

 

[Buddy3101]

Yes an EU3 expansion which plays after Napoleons Ambitions from 1820 - 1835 containing the feature to convert "perfectly" EU3 games to Vic2 with the first Units you'll have in Vic2, the first Ideologies of Vic 2 and so on, so that Vic2 seamlessly follows EU3.

The best would be this Expansion would be released before Vic2 so that everyone can fight his own history for Vic2 and can fill gaps until the release of Vic2

 

[Jolt]

If you don't limit yourself during EU§ and Vicky2, you probably could only fight with yourself. The idea sounds nice, the reality is very likely boring.

Taking into account that AI Finland is capable of bold moves such as invading Italy, I'm not so sure a converted HoI 3 would be boring.

 

[unmerged(146860)]

It'd be nice if all the EU3 countries had corresponding tags in Vicky, just to make conversion easier.

Most of the major ones already do, but if Aquileia survives or something, it'd be nice if the game could handle it without modding.

 

[Simon3101]

This idea sounds great!!! 550 years of Leading a country

Super

 

[Taylor]

It'd be nice if all the EU3 countries had corresponding tags in Vicky, just to make conversion easier.

Most of the major ones already do, but if Aquileia survives or something, it'd be nice if the game could handle it without modding.

Then the converter would have to copy the flag and shield of Aquileia for use in HoI3, and the created scenario would have to be treated as a mod (by the HoI3 launcher). But it would indeed be very cool!

 

[Simon3101]

Maybe something like this is planned by PI

Perhaps some Dev can give us an answer?

 

[Buddy3101]

Taking into account that AI Finland is capable of bold moves such as invading Italy, I'm not so sure a converted HoI 3 would be boring.

And so everybody in the Hoi3 Forum who dont want to have a more historical Hoi3 can have a unhistorical Hoi3 by converting his/her Vic2 Endgame file

 

[SeedSnatcher]

I loved playing EU2 to Vicky games, so this would be a marvelous addition.

But it'd be something for Heir To The Throne to handle.

 

[King of Men]

Writing converters is not very difficult, and can easily be done by modders. Paradox should concentrate on core game features.

 

[Fintilgin]

It wasn't mentioned it the EUIII Xpack features or the Vicky features, so they probably don't intend to make one.

However, fan converters for just about every game have already come out, and I'm positive someone will make a EUIII->Vicky2 one. The most difficult bit will probably be doing the province->province mapping, especially if Vicky2 will have a map with a number of provinces on the same order as HOI3.+

EDIT: Also, Heir to the throne will be coming out waaay before Vicky2, so they won't be able to include a converter for a game that isn't even finished yet.

 

[Jolt]

It'd be nice if all the EU3 countries had corresponding tags in Vicky, just to make conversion easier.

Most of the major ones already do, but if Aquileia survives or something, it'd be nice if the game could handle it without modding.

And who would be the ministers of Aquileia if it survived to HoI?

 

[Skyman]

It would be nice if the converter was as easily modifiable as the game itself, so that if variables seem off modders can put them right, and converters could also be made with mods in mind (so you could go from Magna Mundi to Victoria 2's improvement pack, or something like that).

 

[unmerged(146860)]

And who would be the ministers of Aquileia if it survived to HoI?

I was thinking more for EU3 -> Vicky than for Vicky -> HOI, but I guess it could use a bunch of randomly generated Italian names?

 

[unmerged(161201)]

Hey guys,

New to the boards but been playing CK, EU, EU II, Vic, HOI, EU III for a long while, I thonk a converter (or at least the flexibility of adding a perfectly working converter) will enhance the gaming experience drastically. There are many countries that I played with that I really did not want the game to end just because there was always one more step to go before the grand plan was complete. In a link between EU3-VIC2-HOI3 which spans almost 550 years the nations that we'd deem insignificant would eventually disappear in the long run (Aquileia being a good example). Even if managed to avoid conquest and any of the possible unification events, its existance in 1940s would still add flavor to the game (think about Monaco, Andorra or any other small Euro country that was present for many centuries without glory or expansion). And in the event that these minor countries become very powerful by the grace of AI and become a significant force, an event trigger can set them into relevance (historically think Brandenburg-Prussia, Sardinia Piedmont etc).

Just my two cents