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Trin Tragula

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There isnt a guide as such. If you ask about things in particular i may be able to help (atleast as far as my own areas are concerned).

Wikipedia? That's pretty much what the devs use for EUIV, anyway! :)

Not really. It can be useful for some things though, sure. :)
 
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That quote is from a while ago though. Thanks to continued patching the detail of the game world has increased a lot since then. The map overhauls (especially AoW) or expansion on specific regions such as el dorado would never have been possible using just Wikipedia.
We've also had great help from some knowledgable members of the community for some specific regions (some of them are mentioned in the aow dev diaries).
 
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Do you hire historians, or is it just knowledge pulled from the history buffs among you?

No we don't (though I did send a question to one once). Plenty of knowledge in house (and as mentioned among members of the community) though. Real historians also write books. Those are useful :)
 
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Did you study history? and also are you the guy I should send Jstor stables to when I want to make the case for a really cool new HRE feature? ^^ :) Love your work!

I did study history, from there to calling yourself a historian is a pretty big step though, I'd never use that title myself. :)
On your second question: More general gameplay features are not on my table, I do events, NIs, setup and maps and the like. So unless it'd fit with that I could still pass it on but your best bet in general would be the suggestions forum which is meant for that sort of thing :)
If you want to send/post jstor articles around here there's nobody stopping you as long as it's on topic.

I must strongly object to this anti-historian hiring policy.
Which of course has absolutely nothing to do with me studying said subject or anything of the like, just a general cry for equality!

I don't think there's any "anti-historian hiring policy" there's nothing stopping one from applying to do a job at pds. There's no "company historian" title though so you'd need to be able to do more stuff (on my own part I figured a long history of modding+history studies was a pretty good fit for the job I do now and I haven't regretted it). :)
I've played the EU games since I was pretty young (I'd say they even helped fuel my interest in history, especially global history).
 
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