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Much of my knowledge of world history and geography came from wargames (old school, board ones, that is). But Eu and Eu2 in particular filled in a lot of gaps I had: primarily central and eastern european history, and south-east asian history too. For instance I had no idea before EU that little Lithuania once had an empire that included Poland and stretched to the Black Sea!

Running through the Paradox support forums is pretty much the first thing I do each day as I sit down at my desk at work (shhhhhhhhhhh!). When I go on holidays I miss it.
 
AndrewT said:
Running through the Paradox support forums is pretty much the first thing I do each day as I sit down at my desk at work (shhhhhhhhhhh!). When I go on holidays I miss it.
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And we miss YOU!

Thank you for your long contribution.
 
I think it's part of human nature to hope that you, in some way, will have an impact on the world, however small it may be. You've made a lot of passionate and hard working people very happy with this thread. :)

Kind regards
Susana Meza
 
Luis!! Forbes is interested in doing an article about Paradox and the educational value of games please please get in touch. They Love your story! Obviously you can be anonymus if you want. Pls reply to Joes PM or email Susana.Meza @ paradoxplaza.com This could get us into Forbes Magazine :cool:
Luis de Aveiro said:
I had just finish my degree in History (and History teaching), when Europa Universalis I came out. I was at the hospital when my brother brought it to me.[Heck 15 days at the hospital is boring, annoying and pain was unbearable]
It was the portuguese edition, the only Paradox game that had an official portuguese translation.

After 2 months of playing I was able to create a Portuguese über-empire, so I decided if it was possible to tweak the game a little. At the time I knew nothing about programming, modding. Computers were for office [word processing, calc sheets and class presentations] and games.
I've opened every file and I've discovered I could add and/or change things.

While I as at it, EU 2 came out and the possibilities were immense. I've became interested in archiving and record management, due to the contents about historical events, maps, etc. And I've decided to embrace a post-grad in Archives and Record Management. It was then, that I was one of the chosen for the CK beta-testing, and that process made my mind. Electronic Archives and Digital Preservation became my first interest, and it is currently my work ant the National Archives.

Should my chief know that what I really want is to make sure that all my Paradox Games (and AGEOD) will be playable in the future?
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Luis sooooo needs a custom title!
 
I always considered myself pretty well up on history until I got EU3... seeing names like Polotsk, Achaea and Qara Koyunlu on the map made me realise there was a hell of a lot I didn't know. There's still a lot I don't know, but thanks to PI games I've been curious enough to look info up, buy books etc so that I now have a much, much fuller picture of history.

It also makes me appreciate what an absolutely astounding task it was to research EU3 so that you can start on any day in the entire period and have an accurate setup. I can't imagine how much work that was. Kudos to all.
 
Susana said:
Luis!! Forbes is interested in doing an article about Paradox and the educational value of games please please get in touch. They Love your story! Obviously you can be anonymus if you want. Pls reply to Joes PM or email Susana.Meza @ paradoxplaza.com This could get us into Forbes Magazine :cool:
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Perhaps you could also get in touch with forum member carlec, who has used Paradox games to assist with classes he teaches at his community college.

It seems he hasn't been active on the forum for several months, but I've been in touch with him via email and could ask him if he's interested.
 
MichaelM said:
Perhaps you could also get in touch with forum member carlec, who has used Paradox games to assist with classes he teaches at his community college.

It seems he hasn't been active on the forum for several months, but I've been in touch with him via email and could ask him if he's interested.
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Thanks! We do actually have a database of ppl who use our games for teaching so it would be great to add him. Let him know for sure. For this particular article it looks like we'll be using a professor at UCLA who's built quite an extensive program incorporating our games.

Kind regarsd
Susana
 
Awesome! Please tell when the article is out! Must post positive comments!
 
The links are broken. They both have "..." in the middle of them, which suggests that they were somehow truncated.
 
Gaming along with related beta testing, user modification, and public collaboration has been integral to my professional development, providing early lessons in project management and product development.
 
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