Win a ticket to the Paradox Fan Gathering in Sweden!

[XCWLoki]

You should pick me because instead of pirating these games I bought them all and gave you all of my moneys. Oh, and I'm also a 21 year old who is unsure of what to do with the rest of his life. I'd love to see behind the scenes of a video game company to help with my search, as it is one of the things I am actually interested in doing. It is essentially my dream job.

 

[Persiani]

You should pick me cause I own no PC in Karlstad and my Mac cant play Paradox games

 

[Sebbedan]

I'm a Finnishborn citizen who speaks Swedish.
How convenient yet international.

 

[AdAstra]

By choosing me you can be assured that Finland will not press it's claim on County of Lappland. I also have young ambitious and attractive Heir ready to be betrothed to certain princess from house of Bernadotte

 

[julyjoe88]

You should pick me because I am a history major who teaches his friends about history while playing Paradox games with them. I also have a shitty computer but still play and enjoy crusader kings and Victoria II even though it dose crash every 4 hrs

 

[unmerged(83665)]

You should of course pick me. I am from denmark. Played alot of strategy games ever since playing theater europe on the C64. Been a fan of paradox ever since they started. Though i am relatively old (42) , i am young at heart and mind. Grew up with swedish television so i speak pretty decent swedish. I have alot of of great ideas for games i would love to share with you. I worked the last 20 years within IT (mostly as a database programmer) but this means i have an idea of what is possible and what is not. And i do am somewhat of a party person so the after party would rule!

 

[unmerged(553470)]

Truthfully I only have one game you guys have made (Mount and Blade Series), and with my family only about a month after moving and no money for well anything fun why not try? Why i think I would be great to join is because I've been a "Gamer" in a sense since I was 7, I've never said no to trying a new game. It would be awesome for me also due to the fact I'm going to try and get into collage to learn more about computer and programing, so going to any developers studio is well a dream. But the main reason... my birthday is February 22,1992, I'm turning 21 next year, so it would be awesome birthday if I do go.

 

[unmerged(437547)]

There are a couple of idea's which I'd like to talk to the appropriate developer about. Really I don't need to travel to Sweden to talk to developers about ideas. So if you'd rather just talk to me over the internet that would be perfectly fine. Of course then you miss out on getting to meet me in person, which is a shame because I have quite an energetic personality.

1. Technology: Why must we use static multipliers as the primary guiding force in regional technology advancement in the Europa Universalis series? It seems as though a more organic system could preserve if not enhance historical accuracy with regard to the game's mechanics. By exploring the direct causes of the technological advantages of the west we could produce a system which gives players freedom to shape their nation's history more freely but requires them to do so with a greater immersion in the history of the time. The goal would be to make non European powers a more technical challenge instead of simply a challenge of patience.

2. Population growth in the Universalis series is modeled as simply being a permanent percent increase over time. This leads to enormous explosions of population for large areas and small population growth for lightly populated areas. The result are population numbers which are not strongly representative of player decision and thus numbers which cannot be used to directly develop game values instead only influencing a few event probabilities. I would propose that population growth be modeled after a carrying capacity which can be increased by technology and possibly structures. The closer a population is to it's carrying capacity the more slowly it grows. This allows us to do several interesting things: 1. We may now more directly tie province stats to province populations since those populations are limited by capacities which can be controlled for game balance and historical accuracy. 2. We may now be more liberal with events which have negative impacts on the population as a player will not be permanently crippled by a fall in population as capacity based growth diminishes the effects of events over time. Now when a player commits to a disastrous war we may safely wipe out 25-40% of his country's population with immediate consequence while not dooming the player to permanent obscurity. By linking population directly to province stats we also gain the advantage of forcing a player to care more about their people, if only to make them wish the peasants would breed a bit faster.

This might not be the right kind of thread to talk about these kinds of things. But I guess I'm hoping that's sort of what your door opening is like.

 

[unmerged(235471)]

Aleksander Cundiff I'm 54 years old and I live in the USA i california I take of my ill son and I play one of your games day and night while I take care of my son. I'm the poorest person here.

 

[falcongrey]

Though I could state how I'm in a worse state than AleksanderVI, I won't. Though I could offer 'advice' to games developed like some are doing... I won't. Not my place nor is my mind able to really do those things anymore; I'm just glad I can still play my games like Stronghold and Sword of the Stars 2 when I can focus my mind. I won't say I have all of the games from Paradox, because I don't. I do have the ones I do enjoy, such as Sword of the Stars 1 and 2 along with the whole Stronghold series. I have the Europa series as well but never could truly play it.

Why should I be the one chosen to be flown from the U.S. to Sweden? I do have a passport, though never used. I've never seen another country other than in photos or on TV. I'll never get the chance to live my dream to visit another country on my own before my life is over, it is a reality I've accepted a few years back. So my only hope to visit one is to be a person chosen in a drawing or be invited by someone to go and visit some place. That is the reason I will place before you as to why I should be the one chosen.

 

[unmerged(519002)]

You should pick me because i'm working on covering salem on youtube, and working towards being able to cover most of the paradox games, and would LOVE to see the awesome office in which such epic games come from! I promote paradox constantly in my videos, and would love to make a video of me visiting the paradox office!

EDIT: And would love to meet totalymoo in person ^_^

 

[Ybakgibumpti]

You should pick me because Volvo is a very good car manufacturer and Ikea provides the best computer desks for one to play paradox games on. As well as this, I do not have a neck beard, also, I use cologne every day (due to the sheer amount of men's perfume I get given for Christmas each year).

 

[[Geden]Whitey]

Why me? Well because I'm your rightfull overlord as a Dane, so you got no choice So not only will you, by inviting me, have a chance to bow before your danish overlord, you will even survive not insulting him xD + I'm great company.

I would love to meet the creators at paradox, I mean... Just to be a little fanboy here... I've never played any games I could keep playing as a paradox title... And that is saying a lot, considering games like Fallout I+II ^^ and thus would love to be able to take your hand and personally thank you for stealing so many hours of my life (in case I'm not picked you will have to suffice with this thank you for now ).

On top of that, my birthday is feb. the 20th so it would make an excellent birthday present

Whitey''

 

[Agnstar]

I would be a good candidate because I am a lonely nerd who has never ventured outside of North America. I also like Paradox Interactive games.

 

[Zakath]

You should clearly pick me, since I was the 400th user to register on this forum. Oh, and I promise to bring some really pricey Norwegian Cognac as a bribe! Of course, all Cognac is pricey when one lives in Norway.

Ohoh, better yet. Since I've pretty much played all the EU related games, I even have a boxed version of the Norwegian version of Svea Riket....can't quite recall the name nor find the box right now...but it's here _somewhere_

 

[MasterOfGrey]

You should pick me because I'm from Australia.

But more seriously, I love your games and usually only play the vanilla versions. They're really my go-to source of entertainment when I just need to escape from the real world for a while. I've actually managed to clock up about 1200 hours on your games in the last 3 years whilst doing a full-time engineering degree and spending 14 hours a week on public transport with a crazy family to deal with.

I've always wanted to visit Scandinavia in general, supposedly I have ancestry from there though it's rather diluted by now. I love the history, I love how you guys are supposed to be the most educated in the world, and I would just really like to be able to come see where the magic happens, cause I doubt I'll ever get the opportunity to do so any other way.

That's all from me though, thanks for reading!

Edit: Also this was my 500th post on these forums!

 

[walter kolopajl]

I just retired and I am trying to get into gaming. I have tried but failed to win Hearts of Iron II. I have also failed at Europa Univer. III. I have never been to Sweden but I hear Sweds are great people. You are also very bright as the games you have developed are awesome! thank you for your consideration! Have a great New Year

 

[Lord Blekinge]

Pick me because it would be an adventure getting to Sweden from where I am living now(Jeju Do, Korea), also I am half Swedish so it would be nice to visit the old country.

 

[hull19]

I would love the chance of being picked for one simple reason: Paradox games rock!

I would greatly enjoy being able to see "the place" were everything comes together. And a chance to maybe talk with some developers? Who would miss out on that?!

 

[enkhuush]

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Edited: Last but not least, I would like to give +1 to Paradox for giving us this fantastic opportunity.