Own Review: The Pacific Empire was (and still is, though it's paused) my fourth AAR. The start may not seem too impressive, but I promise, later on it becomes a lot better. By this I mean both the writing, the graphics and the overall structure of the AAR, of which I think the last two are most notable.
Cause Of Pausing: I decided to pause
The Pacific Empire mainly because it started feeling like something I had to do, rather than something I wanted to. As it is my longest and most popular AAR this far, I feel an obligation to return and finish it. That obligation is reinforced by a feeling deep inside me, a feeling that I want to continue writing. I just need to wait for it to become strong enough.
Own Review: Wow! When I look back at my first AAR, which I made less than a year ago, I understand how much AARland has improved my English skill, patience, creativity, ability to use paint and knowledge about the options on Paradox Forums which you can use to improve posts.(Ooops...Long
sentence... Guess I'm
sentenced to death now
. Sorry, I'll spare you my bad puns.) Anyway, I still think
The Indian Republic is something for people who do not have the time to read long, text filled stories, or those who want a gameplay AAR (many game-pictures) with a bit of simple Narrative/History book (the text).
Cause of abandoning: The savegame initially (suprisingly) worked with the Cossacks DLC and the update that came with it, but only a few days after I tried that it was broken.
NOTE: For those who like the AAR, this might be some happy news. I've found a savegame from 1492, only 17 years before the end of
The Indian Republic and it might be working.
Own Review: I started
The Forgotten Vikings as I abandoned
The Indian Republic. Unfortunately the new AAR barely got off the ground before it ended. But it gave me some very important experiences of the AARland, as I got more comments than I had in
The Indian Republic and
Adorno and Nordmann combined. I was filled with more energy and I guess that is what created the massive flow of content at the start of
The Pacific Empire. The AAR structure reminds a lot about
The Indian Republic.
Cause of abandoning: Seemingly the same problem as with
The Indian Republic, with the exception that there was no patch during the course of this AAR.
Own Review: So I and a friend of mine,
TheRealUnknown, got the idea to do a multiplayer AAR. I've later noticed that quite a few others have done the same, in one way or another, but back then we thought it was a revolutionary idea. We decided to play as patricians in Venice to see what we could do.
TheRealUnknown got the odd, but funny idea to play a Swedish character in Venice. I meanwhile, chose to play a traditional, realistic Italian Nobleman.
Cause Of Low Update Frequency: I honestly only know partially. We stumbled upon some savegame problems (yes, again for me) when Coclave came. This could have been avoided if we had not used steam workshop mods, which of course got updated to the new version of the game. And I've at least done my Part 4, while others have not *discretely points at
TheRealUnknown*
. We had however planned to complete the 20 years or so we played before the problems came.