Some Questions

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I am looking for a few answers to my questions . I am a resident of Canada and the game has not yet been released here and am waiting with bated breath for it.

1) What is the point of making it only possible to play 'Major' countries but then what is the point of having all the others there if you must hack to get them?

2) What is the purpose of trade centers (what do they do)?

3) Is there any way to bring other countries into a sort of commonwealth ie They are still independant but recognize you as a leader?

4) Are there any plans to make it so that you do not need to hack to become a minor country (please answer Paradox)?

5) Why are some of the map areas covered with a white haze when everything nearby is visible(Central Africa is always covered with fog)?

6) Is Paradox also making Cossacks: European War?

 

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I'll try to answer your questions...
1) You don't have to hack to play a minor, you have to EDIT the scenario file...
Why 8 only I don't know, possibly because that is a legacy from the Board Game this computer game is based on. But really, playing any of the minors is something you can fix within 10 seconds when you've already done it, and 2 minutes the first time...it's that simple..

2) Every province generates trade, the value goes to the COT's and you send traders there to grab as much of that trade as you can..

3) Hmmm, the closest I can come up with is making them your vassals, then they brake of all other contacts, pay you half their income but otherwise are independant...

4) Doubt that from Paradox, but someone that feels like it might write a editor, i.e. a fan of the game...

5) Some parts that were never discovered during the timeperiod of the game is covered as permanent terra incognita, that is unavailable in the game... Also a feature from the board game, as well as being more historicly correct (though there's a discussion about some of the areas should be available within Asia)

Hope this helps you out a bit ?

Cobos

PS: Please try not to have such an negative tone when you ask for questions, you might get more answers without

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to #6, no, paradox is not affiliated with Cossacks, that AofE clone (sorry to offend anyone, but to me it seems the same as all the other real-time point and clicks, just MHO)

 

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Cool, a compatriot. I should have called myself 'General Montcalm' to counterbalance.

So I hope that my Canadian touch will help you a little.

1) At first, it was made so players could play major countries, like in Imperialism. But with popular demand to be able te play minors as well, it was revealed to us how to play minor nations, and the easiest and only way is to change some information in a single file. Look at it as simplier way to be able to play every country. To permit to play every country without hacking means more programming and more time to do it. Maybe with a patch it will become possible...

2) CoTs are major trade places separating different regions of the world. For example, CoT in Holstein is responsible for Scandinavia, Northern Germany and Pomerania, as Tago is for Portugal and its colonies, etc. In a CoT is conducted trade between the goods of the nations. In every CoT lies 20 parts to be controlled by any nation, so every nations can send merchants to hold parts of a CoT, maybe even all the 20 parts. The more parts you have, the more money you get in your treasury. If you hold more than 6 parts, you get a monopoly on this CoT. Of course, send merchants will inevitably chase off competition, and victim nations will not love it. And your merchants can also be casted out by other nations, especially if a nation holding his monopoly doesn't want competition in 'his' CoT.

3) Oh please, not the British Commonwealth! No more serment of allegance!

Seriously, the situation which you describe is called 'vassalization'. With certain conditions you can vassalize a nation (or be vassalized), which means that the nation stays nominally independent, but kneels before your crown by paying a part of his revenues. Still, it doesn't mean that they will like you forever, and by declaring war to you (or vice-versa) they break up the link of submission.

4) Maybe, maybe not.

5) It is because some parts won't be discoverd until much later. After all ehere are dangerous jungle, swamps and cannibals out there!

Central Africa, for example, wasn't explored before the Age of African Colonization in the 19th century. It was more historically accurate by not making them accessible...

6) Don't know, but I know that Strategy First talks about it.

Hope it helps/J'espère que cela aidera.




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to # six... no they not. it is some Ukrainian company that is making it.... don't remember the name..sorry

 

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Thanks for all the answers you guys. Drakken I do not speak as much French as I would like to what did you write?