I was browsing the EU2 forums, and I ran across a great idea.
(This may or may not belong in the multiplayer forum, but I believe it is more appropriately entitled to the general discussion area because there are more users frequenting this area)
I don't know if this has been done before, but here is my proposition:
I want to start a game, involving multiple players (potentially everyone that plays hearts of iron II and that frequents these forums
).
I want us to take turns, sequentially, transferring the save game from player to player via email.
The first player on the list (that is yet to be compiled), starts up the grand campaign, vanilla version 1.2, with manpower fix, and plays for approximately 1 year, then saves the game, and passes on the save to the next player, and so on, with approx. 1 year's (no more than 13 months, no less than 11 months) gametime for each player.
What is needed before we can do this, are a number of things:
-I need to compile a sequential list of forumites wanting to play.
-I need the emails of all forumites on the list (send me your email *via private messaging*, indicate your interest to join the list *via this thread*.)
Note: Please don't send me your ISP email adress, unless you trust me, use hotmail, yahoo mail, any free email service etc.
Note 2: Please don't ask for MY email address, you will learn it when I send you the saved game, and thus all you'll need to do is play your turn, attach, reply.
There are a few preset conditions I would like to establish beforehand.
-I am the first player on the list (which means I get the most mundane and boring year.....I could make it interesting....)
-I am in charge of managing this operation-I manage the save games, you email them to me, I send them off to the next player on the list etc. (That way, if Fred fails to play his turn, and doesn't send his saved game to me (because he forgot or is just too lazy, or was hit by a falling asteroid on his way to work) , I can just skip Fred, and send the most recent saved game to Bob-and things continue to run smoothly
-Each player, upon receiving the most recent saved game from me, has a MAXIMUM of 30 days to send it back, or you may be skipped
-Each player, upon finishing their turn (or during their turn), saving the game, and emailing the save to me, writes a brief after action report (AAR) using this *.txt template:
AAR Report Template
Then, that report is emailed to me, preferably within 1 week of ending your turn.
Note: It doesn't have to be anything fancy, just a plain, systematic week by week, or month by month description of what happened. If something significant happened, go into some details, or just go quickly over it, if nothing happened, just say "nothing happened", keep it simple and stupid We can always Jazz it up later-there are many talented writers around here, maybe we can nominate one for the final MPC1 AAR compilation...
To Recap: ALL I need, to get this going, are the following:
-Your honestly expressed interest to play (and you shall thus be added to the list-first come, first serve- i.e. first person that posts their interest is first on the list (after me of course),
and a private message stating your forum name and email address.
Note: The list will ONLY be compiled AFTER I have everybody's emails accompanying their interest to play. (You will be added to the list in order of posting your interest, not how quickly you can pm me)
And all I ask of you is this:
-You have a MAXIMUM of 30 days to send a saved game back to me upon receival, or you shall be skipped.
-You have a Maximum of 13 months and a minimum of 11 months in-game, to do whatever you please....
-You choose ANY nation to spend your year on, even one a player prior to you has guided.
-no time limit patch is a mandatory requirement Get it here:
No Time Limit Patch
And of course, having vanilla hoi2 version 1.3 with the manpower fix (don't know if this is applicable to 1.3);
-Go to your hearts of iron 2 directory,
-go to the "db" folder,
-go to file "misc.txt" and open it,
-locate the sentence "# Reinforcement Manpower Cost Factor 0.8"and change the value to "0.4"
is a mandatory requirement.
***Players will be added to the list, up until the 25th of november (GMT)-this is when I wish to start the game***
This thread is now OPEN for RECRUITMENT and CLOSED for SUGGESTIONS.
LIST
-----Player--------Year allocated to player-----
1-Vlad_Dracula---------> 1936
2-Casluerj--------------> 1937
3-Immelman-------------> 1938
4-Kdsphantom-----------> 1939
5-Flocky----------------> 1940
(This may or may not belong in the multiplayer forum, but I believe it is more appropriately entitled to the general discussion area because there are more users frequenting this area)
I don't know if this has been done before, but here is my proposition:
I want to start a game, involving multiple players (potentially everyone that plays hearts of iron II and that frequents these forums
). I want us to take turns, sequentially, transferring the save game from player to player via email.
The first player on the list (that is yet to be compiled), starts up the grand campaign, vanilla version 1.2, with manpower fix, and plays for approximately 1 year, then saves the game, and passes on the save to the next player, and so on, with approx. 1 year's (no more than 13 months, no less than 11 months) gametime for each player.
What is needed before we can do this, are a number of things:
-I need to compile a sequential list of forumites wanting to play.
-I need the emails of all forumites on the list (send me your email *via private messaging*, indicate your interest to join the list *via this thread*.)
Note: Please don't send me your ISP email adress, unless you trust me, use hotmail, yahoo mail, any free email service etc.
Note 2: Please don't ask for MY email address, you will learn it when I send you the saved game, and thus all you'll need to do is play your turn, attach, reply.
There are a few preset conditions I would like to establish beforehand.
-I am the first player on the list (which means I get the most mundane and boring year.....I could make it interesting....
)-I am in charge of managing this operation-I manage the save games, you email them to me, I send them off to the next player on the list etc. (That way, if Fred fails to play his turn, and doesn't send his saved game to me (because he forgot or is just too lazy, or was hit by a falling asteroid on his way to work) , I can just skip Fred, and send the most recent saved game to Bob-and things continue to run smoothly
-Each player, upon receiving the most recent saved game from me, has a MAXIMUM of 30 days to send it back, or you may be skipped
-Each player, upon finishing their turn (or during their turn), saving the game, and emailing the save to me, writes a brief after action report (AAR) using this *.txt template:
AAR Report Template
Then, that report is emailed to me, preferably within 1 week of ending your turn.
Note: It doesn't have to be anything fancy, just a plain, systematic week by week, or month by month description of what happened. If something significant happened, go into some details, or just go quickly over it, if nothing happened, just say "nothing happened", keep it simple and stupid
We can always Jazz it up later-there are many talented writers around here, maybe we can nominate one for the final MPC1 AAR compilation...To Recap: ALL I need, to get this going, are the following:
-Your honestly expressed interest to play (and you shall thus be added to the list-first come, first serve- i.e. first person that posts their interest is first on the list (after me of course
), and a private message stating your forum name and email address.
Note: The list will ONLY be compiled AFTER I have everybody's emails accompanying their interest to play. (You will be added to the list in order of posting your interest, not how quickly you can pm me)
And all I ask of you is this:
-You have a MAXIMUM of 30 days to send a saved game back to me upon receival, or you shall be skipped.
-You have a Maximum of 13 months and a minimum of 11 months in-game, to do whatever you please....
-You choose ANY nation to spend your year on, even one a player prior to you has guided.
-no time limit patch is a mandatory requirement Get it here:
No Time Limit Patch
And of course, having vanilla hoi2 version 1.3 with the manpower fix (don't know if this is applicable to 1.3);
-Go to your hearts of iron 2 directory,
-go to the "db" folder,
-go to file "misc.txt" and open it,
-locate the sentence "# Reinforcement Manpower Cost Factor 0.8"and change the value to "0.4"
is a mandatory requirement.
***Players will be added to the list, up until the 25th of november (GMT)-this is when I wish to start the game***
This thread is now OPEN for RECRUITMENT and CLOSED for SUGGESTIONS.
LIST
-----Player--------Year allocated to player-----
1-Vlad_Dracula---------> 1936
2-Casluerj--------------> 1937
3-Immelman-------------> 1938
4-Kdsphantom-----------> 1939
5-Flocky----------------> 1940
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