Encyclopedia Victoria

[Schlieffen]

Ah, I see. The trick is that "beginning" bit - the Trail ends when Victor II's rule begins. I'll try to make that a little more clear.

EDIT: "A period of drastic decline in Victorian power, lasting from the death of Adolph I in 1506 to the beginning of Victor II's rule in 1541."

Better?

 

[unmerged(58610)]

Ah, I see. The trick is that "beginning" bit - the Trail ends when Victor II's rule begins. I'll try to make that a little more clear.

EDIT: "A period of drastic decline in Victorian power, lasting from the death of Adolph I in 1506 to the beginning of Victor II's rule in 1541."

Better?

Works for me!

I have noticed that your link says Trail of Victor rather than Trial. You could be intending some humour ,as in "that was a piece of Victoria" and "that was another piece of Victoria" and so on. Trial and Trail do seem to interchangeable in the articles.

 

[Schlieffen]

Gah, frickin' typos! It says "trail" like fifty times, including my comments.
It's supposed to be "trial", as in struggle or test. I've just been typing really sloppily.

Anyways, if there's anything anyone wants to see fleshed out I'd be pleased to do it. Otherwise it's forwards in time and some stuff about Victor II.

 

[Schlieffen]

Ok, here's the scoop:
I was writing a bit of the Victor II article (gonna be a really large one I'm sure - I plan to have him rule for a good sixty or seventy years to really cement the country's existance), and it occured to me that I don't really know what's going on in other countries during this time. I mean I have a vague idea of course, but a lot of that "vague idea" is incredibly so - the current situation in Spain, for example, is "yeah, it's there".
So I was thinking: if I set up a Wiki somewhere, would anyone be interested in making the rest of the world with me? I'd be the final word on what's "cannonical" of course, but for the most part the fates of nations would be fairly open - as long as the story is plausible and doesn't interfere with the overall plan for Victoria (it is called "Encyclopedia Victoria", after all ), then the Wiki's consensus would rule after a little voting and a quick rubber-stamp from above. More pertinent articles to the whole "Victoria" theme would continue to be posted here and a link to the Wiki would be at the start of the thread for those interested in seeing what the AAR community's created, but I think that having some community participation could really breathe some life into this project. Since the Paradox games are more a guide than in more "traditional" AARs, there isn't any of that complex multiplayer setup that many other collaborations have; just pure sit down and make a really cool alternate history in the EU2 timeframe, Victoria if we finish that, and HOI2 if we finish that. It'll take a long time before we get the basic idea "done" and I'm sure little details could be added forever, but I think as a nice little hobby thing on the side it'll be fun to involve others in.

Any takers?

 

[stnylan]

It sounds like it could be an amusing project, but alas I would never have the time.

 

[Schlieffen]

Time to do what? You wouldn't necessarily have to write entire articles or devote yourself to a country - just throw ideas out there for the more prolific writers who join to write about. It's not like every participant would pick a country and write everything in it, or have full control over it; it's a Wiki.
I have ideas to moderate things and avoid conflicts of course, but you wouldn't have to control all of Spain - just contribute your two cents when someone comes up with an idea. It also wouldn't have to be purely encyclopedic; under the guise of a novel, transcript, etc. you could write a standard story too, possibly to be referenced in the Encycolpedia. Hell, you could make up a historian and write his works.

 

[stnylan]

Well considering that the time I spend on these forums does already limit the meagre time I devote to my own AARs...

 

[Schlieffen]

Well because of a lack of any real interest, I'm going to put this project on hiatus for the time being. I hope to get back to it at some point, but I really don't have the time to write these things for myself and two or three other people at the moment.