What do you want in the Box?

[Johan]

As boxed releases are moving over to one format everywhere - Slim DVD - we have to make a decision on what to print as we can't fit much. We'd like to hear from you what you would like to see, as you are they guys that will actually pay money for it.


A complete digital pdf manual without page count restriction will be provided with the game regardless of print decision.

 

[Sir Hunter]

The map would be a nice feature to have

 

[SAS]

I thought the original Victoria quick reference folding chart was VERY handy with all the economic changes over time. I also love the entire manuel in my hands as I love the smell of new books...odd I know. But whatever you decide I will be buying a hard copy.

EDIT: I hate pdf manuals

 

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Map! Map! Map! Map!

 

[Cinéad IV]

A manual is always handy. A map is nice, but awkward to reference.

 

[Grubnessul]

A pretty map!

Oh, and the game disk would be lovely too

 

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Map! Map! Map! Map!

Map! Mapa! Karte! Atlas! Khartis! Chizu!

Either that or a life-sized bronze bust of Queen Victoria.

 

[Esben Sonne]

If I would like to have a boxed copy, I would like to have a map.. It might even be enough to convince to get a boxed copy.

And charts and reference sheets is also nice... But if they could be made on a A4 pdf, then they could be distributed digitally. And then everyone (who registers) can get them. A map might not so easy to print.

As for the manual.. A digital one is fine since it's a read-once and then a look-up resource. All in all: I think a map and reference charts is a more long lasting bonus.

 

[talin]

I went for the online purchase. But if it that were not an option I would prefer the map, since Johan have a tendency to make the manual redundant very fast.

 

[Snaake]

I thought the original Victoria quick reference folding chart was VERY handy with all the economic changes over time. I also love the entire manuel in my hands as I love the smell of new books...odd I know. But whatever you decide I will be buying a hard copy.

A reference sheet, with a MAP ON THE OTHER SIDE! So Awesome.

I'd prefer a nice, big, foldable map (maybe colored by dominant culture or something, or just the 1836 political situation) to a manual. And some kind of reference sheet with techs and/or the production tree (coal makes glass, fruit+glass makes wine; sulphur makes fertiliser, fertiliser (+something?) makes explosives, ammunition+steel make small arms, in the end wine is demanded by POPs, and small arms by military) could be on the backside.

A manual is marginally useful to get printed: seeing as it'll be included as a pdf anyway (and people can thus print it if they want), and it's likely to go old pretty fast.

edit: my decision on whether to get a hard copy or buy online is really dependent on two things: if a hard copy can be readily found, and whether the box will have anything else than the disc&manual (regardless of the form of the latter).

 

[ComradeOm]

I like paper manuals and correspondingly despise PDF ones. Maps tend to get an initial 'oooh' factor and then languish in the case forever. So manual it is. Particularly for a game as complex as V2

A manual is marginally useful to get printed: seeing as it'll be included as a pdf anyway (and people can thus print it if they want), and it's likely to go old pretty fast

Whereas a reference sheet won't be almost immediately obsolete?

 

[telesien]

A pretty map!

Oh, and the game disk would be lovely too

:rofl:
I completely agree

 

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Johan, why it is impossible to vote for two points?

 

[Buddy3101]

I think the first two options are the best to learn the game "perfectly". But for learning the game you dont need a map... So I voted for the 2nd option.

 

[Raptor1]

Well, in the absence of a monocle, top hat or Maxim gun option, I'd have to go for the fancy map.

Though unfortunately most chances are I'll only be able to get the digital version...well, hopefully not...

 

[Oorlog]

#1 The better you make it the sooner i take it

 

[ravensuominen]

I thought the original Victoria quick reference folding chart was VERY handy with all the economic changes over time. I also love the entire manuel in my hands as I love the smell of new books...odd I know. But whatever you decide I will be buying a hard copy.

EDIT: I hate pdf manuals

I agree with SAS, but since a 64 page manual probably wouldn't include everything, I'd rather have a good map with most important info and print the (100+ page?) PDF manual myself...

 

[OHgamer]

I agree with SAS, but since a 64 page manual probably wouldn't include everything, I'd rather have a good map with most important info and print the (100+ page?) PDF manual myself...

Exactly.

Plus, just for me personally, to get a poster size print of the map that my partner in Clio, Xie Chengnuo, and I helped to inspire with our mod design, would simply be too much awesome for words.

So VOTE MAP, NOW !

 

[RELee]

Have I ever told you that I'm really not a patient man?

Download.

 

[JakopDalunde]

I wanna pre-order a collectors edition with lots of goodies.