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I was always under the impression that the game started in 1836 because it's just before the coronation of Queen Victoria in early 1837. She is the game's namesake.

Crusader Kings: You can play as a Norse pagan republic. A namesake is different from the game.
 
Crusader Kings: You can play as a Norse pagan republic. A namesake is different from the game.

well you can play as china in Vicky as well. obviously you can play other nations then the one mentioned in the title, not really a valid point here.
 
well you can play as china in Vicky as well. obviously you can play other nations then the one mentioned in the title, not really a valid point here.

Well still using crusader kings II as an example with the old gods the game can start over 200 years before the first crusade. The years within the game does not have to line up exactly with its namesake.
 
Crusader Kings: You can play as a Norse pagan republic. A namesake is different from the game.

Well the pagans in the North sure had their fair share of crusader love from Europe. Just ask the Old Prussians and the Slavs.
 
I'm pretty sure this was done to leave room for an expansion. Since Vicky 2 didn't do so well, this expansion never got made.

How so? It has gotten 2 expansions so far.


Change defines.lua in EUIV/common from end date 1821 to end date 1836

Problemo solved

No it isn't. There would be need expand tech (which to this time would complicated), units, government forms, etc. There would be also need to add new nations, edit history, new events and decision, but yeah Vic2 would probably do it much better.
 
I'm pretty sure this was done to leave room for an expansion. Since Vicky 2 didn't do so well, this expansion never got made.

It actually did much better than they thought it would. Were you around when the CEO had a marketing prank where he was going to shave his head if the original release turned a profit? He had to shave his head during the pre-sale.

They've specifically said that they weren't adding dates besides A House Divided because the research into a Vicky bookmark is significantly more work than any of the other games because they have to build all the pops with their religions, cultures, issues, and occupations for every person on the planet and then make sure that it doesn't break the economy. The number of data points is exponentially in building a Vicky bookmark.