my guess is that the 3.1 upgrade messed up the game, but it's only a guess...
Wow, it's been a while since I poked my head in here. *Cue "embarrassed" emoticon*
I know this reply is long late, but I figured I would address a couple of things anyway. This is indeed part of what happened, although there were a lot of things going on that, combined, conspired to cause the end of this AAR. When I got the 3.1 update, I actually copied my entire installation so that I could have a 3.0 version (for this AAR) and a 3.1 version (to fiddle with as I so desired). This went on for a bit, but I eventually got caught up in my 3.1 game (as Novgorod/Russia) and ended up with that as my "go-to" game when I had some time to kill.
However, there were also some real-life things going on that occupied a lot of my attention, and between the version upgrade, work, stress from being somewhere I really didn't want to be (and doing something I didn't want to do), I ended up just letting this game slip, and slip, and slip, until it had eventually slipped far enough that I completely moved on to other things and didn't think about it anymore. I definitely enjoyed playing this game and writing this AAR, and I'm thrilled that people enjoyed reading it and got a lot of use from it. Aside from "continue until 1821", I would say that it certainly achieved all of the goals I set for it at the beginning and then some.
I've recently gotten back into Crusader Kings, and I might get back into some EU3 soon, too. God knows I've probably forgotten so many things about the game in the last 8-or-so months that it would be downright embarrassing for me to try to pick up right where I left off, but who knows -- I might need to write
another one of these just to learn the game again.
Cheers,
Walker