Looks awesome. I just start to work on my application. Becoming a part of the This Is Madness-Story is great!
Not sure I will bear to do this interactive stuff, never been fond of that. But I loved your CK2 AAR, so I'll at least sub and see how it goes.
Good luck with this! Like Nikolai, I think I'll forego participating in the interactive part, but I look forward to the story.
Fine with me The interactivity is going to be strictly limited to Senate Session (at least for now, we'll see about that in the future) so for the most part it should be as enjoyable as "This Is Madness" - it's only that for those who participate it may be a little more fun I think we will do some dry run of the Senate Session before the AAR begins for real (that is before "Art of War" release) so that everyone could see how it works in practice - and so that I could make some changes to the rules if it turns out things don't work quite as well as I imagined.Count me as another who'll be foregoing the interactive part. For one, I've never been able to stick very long with the few roleplays I've ever participated in, and certain responsibilities I have elsewhere on the Internet will undoubtedly be taking up a good portion of my time anyway (before we even factor real life into the equation!)
Nevertheless, I'll most definitely be cheering this AAR on from the sidelines, as I did for Part One
1. You can make up your own House, it doesn't have to be a historical one; you could name it however you like (remember however that everything must be approved by me)A great start! I'll try to be a senator, as it sounds interesting, but a few questions:
1. Do we need to think about a non-existing house, or do we need to find a real house? (if so, Kantakouzenos it is, if not, I'll have to do some research on Greek names )
2. If we can invent our own house, can we also invent positions and titles owned by past members of this house, or notable members? Will have to somehow fill the template
3. When off-character and not in senate meetings, can we continue the RP we did in the CK2 topic (Enlil the heretic, supporting Mongols and Xenoi etc)?
As for today, the answers are:Yay! Looks awesome.
A few questions, though:
1. Can we scheme against the emperor to place new empires on the throne, or even another fellow senator?
2. Can we form factions with fellow senators?
3. Does the Imperial High Council still exist and can PCs be promoted to it? If so, what are the powers of the imperial high Council? (For ex., would it be like being appointed to the cabinet in a V2 IAAR?)
4. Can our dynasties be promoted to dynatoi?
This was almost exactly the same idea as mine when I started thinking about the interactive AAR:Maybe we could have factions for each monarch point :
-The Administration faction, focusing on internal matters of the empire
-The Exploration faction, focusing on what is outside the empire (trade, diplomacy and of couse colonization)
-The Tagmata faction, focusing on the army and its use for the goals of the empire
Could be fun if the senators are giving a role as grand admiral, or domestikos, to have them on the battlefield
We roll the dice to know their stats, then one create an event to make them spawn to lead the mighty Rhomaion !
Thanks! Yes, I'm 100% willing to convert to Victoria 2, assuming this whole thing (CK2 2.0.4 exported save + mods + EU4 with "Art of War" patch) will be transferable by the time I'm done.YES! Oh, I'm so happy. This looks great already, just because of all the measures you're taking so that everything runs smoothly. Even better, you've confirmed to continue into Victoria 2. As I haven't ever played EU4, I am hesitant to make a character. That said, this story might just convince me. Anyway, I'm really excited to see the groundwork being laid, and I can't wait to see what changes you're doing to make the world make sense, given tech and taxes.
Somewhere in the Internet - unfortunately I couldn't identify the author. There are much more great Aztec/Age of Exploration artworks around the web but vast majority isn't in the public domain, which means I can't really use them.Yay second !
Awesome picture for the introduction, where did you find it ?
It doesn't have to be very long, you knowI wish I could sign up but I'm terrible at making histories/biographies! :sad:
I'm torn on whether to participate. Playing a character who *isn't* cheering on the Aztecs and Mongols would be weird for me, but it sounds like so much fun.
Part one was great and I'm looking forward to it, in any event.
Interesting. I'll have to start cooking up an application.
Well, I just sent in my application. With all hope I'll be an Imperial Senator soon.
Looks awesome. I just start to work on my application. Becoming a part of the This Is Madness-Story is great!
Thanks and good luck with your applications (for a lack of a better word ) and to those who already sent theirs - it's being processed right now, so expect my answer today.I'll send my application soon.
By the way, you should definitely try to make the AAR works with Art of War, even if that means to wait a little longer to make the converter work. The huge map changes alone are a good reason to wait.
1. Sure, go ahead.So we can make up our own house- what about a historical house which wasn't mentioned in the AAR and thus isn't important?
Oh, and will it be ok to use a name randomly generated by the game, playing as the Byzantium? It can help with inventing a whole dynasty
3. No. This is the first time I'm doing an interactive AAR so - for now - all in-character interaction is strictly limited to Senate Session. However, I want to make it more flexible in the future but this depends on how this whole interactivity (which is a new thing for me as well) is going to work out.
Oh I will, it's just the vanilla converter weirdness. I will explain all the changes I made to ensure that everything makes sense in dev diariesUhm... maybe you could give Pisa to... Pisa? In ck2 they own it and mantain it for the whole AAR. Its weird to see all of Italy under the Imperium.
Sorry!Subbed.
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I'll share all the details with you in dev diaries; I didn't export any war since I don't think AI would be able to handle this. The first few years are needed for the AI to put itself together since the start is so different from the vanilla one.Is the war against the Xenoi continuing from CK2 to EUIV, or is it canceled (as I can see that there's no aztec province in Italy)?
Oh, and btw, my Roman game is going well, the Aztecs came and took Francia and Britannia but they have been repelled (through they still most of France, Aquitane and England) thanks to Imperium, Poland and rebelling Christian lords.
And Mecca is Miaphsyte (didn't know if you already read this in the CK2 thread since you didn't answer the comments yet) and held by my allies from Abbysinia.
Me too but it will take a while - remembe that I'm waiting for "Art of War" release. We will have dev diares in the meantime however.can't wait for it to get started
so, how long would a senate session be, roughly? Would it just be open for a few hours, or for a day or two?
At least 2-3 days - we're all in different timezones, so there is no way a few hours would be enough. It will depend on the topic though: if the Senate is voting on some minor issues, the Session can be short. But if it's something reallly important and there are multiple votings it could take even 5 days or more. That's the plan at least.I would say, that it should be some days (2-3), so everyone has a chance to post. With just a few hours, not everyone would see the session in time or had the time to post immediately.
vanilla: +50% heir chance, -1 revolt risk
tweaked: +10% manpower recovery, +1 true faith tolerance
vanilla: years_of_nationalism=-5
tweaked: accepted_culture_threshold = -0.25
1.Thanks!1. I am already in love with the dev diaries. The changes you have made so far make sense, especially the Mongols. I am pretty sure Hungary is going to get destroyed quickly though.
2. Are you planning on altering the nations that have not appeared yet, like China, Japan, or the others in the New World? I'm just thinking if you leave them as they are, the Aztecs might rule all of the New World by the time you get there, and the Mongols might dominate the Far East.
Not really - I'm going to use land units from this mod for High American (because they have correct number of pips) but that's about it.Have you considered taking advantage of the CK2-EU4 Converter Improvement Project?
Glad to hear this, I'm waiting for your application.This is awesome! Count me in for the interactive part!
IndeedNice DevDiary, now I have three to wait for: Charlemange, Art of War and This is Madness!
It is already looking like we get a very diverse Senate and I'm sure there are more illustrious senators out to join us, time to brush up on “Famous Speeches in the Roman Senate”!